I’ve been designing my homebrew SciFi setting for awhile now. I’ve worked on it solo and opened it up to sandbox sessions with my players. It’s turning into quite a robust universe. The Empire is a big play ground complete with nobility and political intrigue, interstellar warships waging galactic scale battles, and merchants just trying […]
The good folks at Atomic Overmind recently tidied up a few items in Ken Hite’s Savage Worlds setting, The Day After Ragnarok. In addition to the corrections, they’ve also included some new Ken Hite character concept material. It’s available via free download. But that’s not all! On Wednesday, Atomic Overmind announced it’s first supplement for […]
More than 20 years before George Lucas started his long, downhill slide with Ewoks, H. Beam Piper gave us fuzzies or, by their appropriate scientific designation, Fuzzy fuzzy holloway zarathrustra. Little Fuzzy, a 1963 Hugo nominee for Best Novel, is terrific science fiction. With its themes of corporate espionage, civil rights, and climate change, this […]
In addition to playing games, buying stuff, and hanging out with friends, seeing all the cool people and things is just as much a part of the experience as the rest of it. People in costume are always fun. All the games are cool. Just seeing the crowd of people sharing your interest is awesome. […]
After securing my badge, I joined up with a whole bunch of folks for lunch. A.David Pinilla and both of his wives (His man-bride Luke Meyer and David’s lady wife as well), Rich, James, Jake, and the much hated Holmberg. It was a bit loud for much conversation, but we did manage to coordinate some […]
I woke at five o’clock this morning in the hopes that I’d be able to catch an earlier flight. I’m booked on a one o’clock flight that would get me to Indy around four. While my work schedule required that undesirable booking at first, I was later able to manipulate the calendar in my favor. […]
This is the big week. GenCon week. I’ve mentioned before that I’ve never been to GenCon, the best four days in gaming. Later this week, I hop on a plane to Indianapolis where I will meet up with old friends, new friends, and bitter enemies (I’m looking at you, Holmberg). The days and nights will […]
I have never been fan of systems that dictate building encounters in roleplaying games. I’m the kind of GM who has always relied on the “eyeball it” method that comes with enough experience with games. While this gave me great freedom in how I approached things it also meant that I was often adjusting stats […]
I’ve written before that I listen to a lot of podcasts. I currently hold subscriptions to 25 shows that I listen to on a regular basis predominantly on the subject of role playing games, comic books, and other geekery. On average, I listen to somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 hours of podcasts each week. […]
For two weeks, we here at IoM have been pimping the virtues of Atomic Overmind Press‘ latest offering, the new Savage Worlds setting book by Ken Hite, The Day After Ragnarok. The book asks the question, what if Ragnarok happened during World War II? Imagine a world where the Midgard Serpent was struck down by […]