Posts Tagged by shameless plugs
| October 26, 2010 | Posted by John Arcadian |
On my last post about running an Improv game, Toldain asked if I could share my setup for Improv games. Since I run a lot of convention games, I thought the best way to share the setup would be to do a photo filled post showing exactly what is in my setup. It all starts with a box . . . THE BOX I usually carry a courier bag to conventions, but I found it just wasn’t cutting it as far as keeping stuff organized.…
| October 20, 2009 | Posted by John Arcadian |
This wasn’t the article I intended to write today. I intended to write my long overdue Realms of Cthulu review, since I played Savage Worlds with Sean Preston and Sean Patrick Fannon at Con On The Cob and now feel familiar enough with Savage Worlds to review it. But Martin’s article got me thinking, which is always a mixed blessing, and I got this one big question in my head: Is tabletop roleplaying going to survive in the digital age? Roleplaying Is Relatively Young When…
| June 24, 2009 | Posted by John Arcadian |
Recently, a friend of mine said they were tired of “righteous paladins, knights in armor that have dragons on them, mentally tortured vampires, orphaned revenge seeking samurai, the “chosen ones” or every lone wolf character EVAR in role playing games”. Yeah, those are pretty standard characters in a lot of games, and as stereotypes go they are pretty cliché. But then I got thinking, what is so wrong with that? Mind you, I’m definitely a fan of the unique character concept and any game system…
| February 2, 2009 | Posted by John Arcadian |
Aside from Role Playing Games, one of my favorite pastimes is reading comics. Specifically, webcomics. More specifically, Role Playing Game related web comics. There are a slew of gaming webcomics out on the world wide inter-tubes and they have unique takes on gaming. Some look deep at the mechanics of the targeted game and integrate them into the core concept of the comic. Some merely run parallel to the game by having the same type of genre for their setting. There are some things we…
