I just ran my Tekumel campaign last night, using Empire of the Petal Throne with some mods and changes. My players are getting used to characters and the world and that’s all good. But there’s this issue of scale… See, on Tekumel, the “underworlds” are equivalent to dungeons, roughly speaking. Over the past few years, I’ve… Continue reading It’s really BIG
I’m writing a short essay for people who are new to Old School gaming, but who are considering running an Old School campaign. There’s lots of good advice out there about doing that directly, but not as much about how to think about it – Matt Finch’s excellent Quick Primer is good, and if there… Continue reading Advice for new referees, Part One
During the past month, I’ve had the following things happen to me: Coming back from the 2011 North Texas RPG Con, I survived an emergency landing at Milwaukee’s Billy Mitchell Field, when the right landing gear did not descend, and we had to crash land with the nose and left landing gear – and the… Continue reading One month
Joel Rosenberg, author of the Guardians of the Flame series, passed away Wednesday evening in Minneapolis. Despite what might have been suggested by the series, Joel wasn’t a role-player – he would rather write. I’m at North Texas RPG Con, so I will write a longer remembrance later. But if you enjoyed Joel’s writing, or… Continue reading Joel Rosenberg’s passing
The positive: have arrived at North Texas RPG Con.The negative: am fighting off a migraine. Lots of sleep tonight and I should be able to run some Empire of the Petal Throne tomorrow.
Wizards of the Coast recently announced its new “Lair Assault” program: “D&D Lair Assault is a new Wizards Play Network in-store program that pits tactically-minded players against a super challenge where the difference between victory and defeat is dependent upon your game knowledge, ability to adapt, and a little bit of luck. You’ll pit your… Continue reading I’m puzzled – how about you?
I know Jamie Mal might say we’re just in a Silver Age of renewed interest, but what follows is more proof that in the culture wars gaming has won, so to speak (even if it’s 4th Edition that shows up): Roll a D6 from Connor Anderson on Vimeo.
Twenty-two. That was the number we had for the last Madison Traditional Gaming meetup, running from 10am to 5pm, on Saturday April 16th. Generally speaking, we’ve averaged somewhere between 8-15 people at previous meetups, but this time things seemed to work just right. One of the players in my Tuesday night D&D campaign, Nix, ran a… Continue reading 22 Adventurers
From English Russia – what does someone do when they really want historical miniatures? Well, they make them from plasticine. Cheap Soviet-era plasticine. Go check it out.
Adventuring in the Jakallan Underworld at Gary Con The Metamorphosis: Alpha game ended with Alpha, the AI in charge of the station, doing in the entire party because we had decided that the alien menace was, well, too menacing. I was able to get Jim Ward to sign my character sheet, which was very gracious… Continue reading The Garden of Weeping Snows at Gary Con
