Good golly I loves me some Star Trek RPGing. I’ve been running Trek games since 1982 with the FASA system. It is a system that is long out of print. Since 1989 in fact. For seven years, FASA put out the best damned Trek RPG that would ever be published. I love the system […]
If you’re lucky enough, maybe you’ll hit a comic shop that will allow you more than one free comic book this Saturday, Free Comic Book Day (probably not 100 Free Comics though, like us!). We all know that, if you only get one, it HAS to be Blackest Night #0, but if you can get […]
Hmm….that script review we had a while back is lookin’ mighty accurate.
Good news, folks! WOTC made a surprise move by offering the Keep on the Shadowfell and the quick-start rules that came with it for free. That’s right, free! Our group just played through the module and we had a grand ole’ time. That’s not to say the adventure is something spectacular, but it certainly isn’t […]
One of the hardest things about playing rpgs is breaking into the hobby. Without a knowledgeable hand to guide you, deciphering the myriad of terminology, niches, and reviewer biases can be absolutely mind-boggling. And don’t discount this problem to apply to just gaming newbies. Even the experienced gamer may have to do a whole lot […]
Last week, I wrote about the upcoming intervention the hosts of Fear the Boot have planned for Dan Repperger. Dan, you see, just can’t wrap his head around any number of character concepts or campaign settings. His fellow hosts are planning on helping him out of his funk by getting him excited about a genre […]
And then it happened; the whole world heard the howl of Garm, and the moon was eclipsed in blood. The head of Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent, 350 miles across, breached the surface of the Arabian Sea and rose up into the troposphere… Life is good for the Savage Worlds gamer. There’s some truly amazing support […]
Brian Jacques, a British born author went a different way. Showing propensity as a writer at the age of ten with a story even his teachers didn’t believe he could have written, he created a world set in medieval times of a mouse named Matthias and his quest for a sword. Redwall was published in […]
Of late, I have listened to Fear the Boot with an awfully critical ear – despite my abiding affection for the hosts. I’ve settled into a habit of enumerating all the many ways Chad and Dan are wrong, suffering from narrow perspectives and absence of vision as they are. In fact, I wrote about some […]
As a gamemaster, you must never discount that player motivation will often trump character motivation. Sure, everyone likes to brag about games with “deep roleplaying” and “staying in-character” and most of the time experienced roleplayers have little trouble separating their desires from the character’s. However, sometimes there’s a carrot dangling that no player can resist […]