Category: Spotlight
| November 17, 2010 | Posted by Scott Martin |
I finally played A Penny for My Thoughts for the first time at a recent RPG meetup. I ran the group straight from the book, following the written guidance and cues. It was a good session– with prep so light I could never complain– but many of the pitfalls the author warned about did come true in our session. Later, I played a pair of games on Halloween Eve and Halloween. We weaved around some of the same problems, but managed to avoid a few…
| June 21, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Despite the well-known enmity between gnomes and kobolds — AKA scaly halflings — the Stew hearts Kobold Quarterly. Why? Because it rocks. KQ is the brainchild of Wolfgang Baur, one of the most famous game designers around, and among the many other irons he has in the fire he publishes the Kobold Guide to Game Design series. Volume III came out in print last Friday, and Wolfgang asked if I’d like to write a GMing article about this volume, which is subtitled “Tools & Techniques.”…
| May 25, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Last week, I posted the first preview from the Stew’s soon-to-be-released book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters. The sci-fi plots chapter has come back from layout, so without further blathering, here’s the second sample: Eureka sample PDF #2. This time around, you’ll see a different group of authors — all of the gnomes contributed 55 plots apiece to Eureka, give or take a plot or two. You’ll also see the tools we’ve included to make these plots crazy-easy to use in your…
| May 7, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
I started playing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay back in junior high, and I’ve always loved the game. When Green Ronin got the license a few years back, they put out a dead sexy edition — updated, prettier, but still very much WFRP. Now the license has changed hands again, this time heading over to Fantasy Flight Games — and they’ve produced the single most sumptuous, extravagant, viscerally awesome roleplaying product I’ve ever seen: the WFRP 3rd Edition core boxed set. This isn’t a review, I haven’t…
| March 29, 2010 | Posted by Phil Vecchione |
A few weeks ago, I reviewed Fiasco (here and here), by Bully Pulpit Games; a game about ordinary people, attempting ambitious plans, and flailing miserably. During and after my review, I had a chance to exchange emails with Fiasco’s creator Jason Morningstar, and got to ask Jason about his GMing philosophy, about his company Bully Pulpit Games, and of course about Fiasco. Jason, let us start by having you tell us a bit about yourself, how you got into RPG’s and what you are playing right…
| March 15, 2010 | Posted by Scott Martin |
This weekend I sat down in the player’s chair again. After an extended and glorious fight two weeks ago, the D&D game reached a “chapter break” and we picked a new game to play for a few months while my brain recovers from high level D&D 3.5 prep. The game we selected is Aces and Eights. We have played around with it a couple of times in the past– a couple of one shots and character creation sessions. Character Creation: The Process Character creation in…
| February 4, 2010 | Posted by Scott Martin |
Over the last couple of years, I have been lucky to play in two linked series of Star Wars Saga games. My experience with the system has been as a player, but my GM and I have discussed the system quite a bit. He’ll chime in with comments in italics throughout the article. Katana Geldar wrote a nice post about the recent announcement by Wizards of the Coast, where they declare the end of the Star Wars RPG line. Geldar then asked us the following…
