For day 9 of RPGaDay, I am asked what media I wish was an RPG. This is tough, since most everything has been made into an RPG, but I really like the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks and as far as I can tell (or Google can), it’s not been done yet. The series is well written and plays strongly to my favoured thieves’ world type [Read the article]
Day 8 of RPGaDay asks what is my favourite appearance of RPGs in the media? Again, an easy one – in the TV series Community, season 2, episode 14: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. In this episode, the study group plays Dungeons & Dragons with another student to try to make him feel better, but Pierce (Chevy Chase) interferes and tries to wreck the whole game. This isn’t the first [Read the article]
For day 7 of RPGaDay, the question is what is my favourite free RPG? This one is too easy – Lady Blackbird: Adventures in the Wild Blue Yonder by John Harper. If you haven’t seen it yet, go check it out now. I’ll wait. It’s an awesome award-winning role-playing game with everything you need to play in 16 pages. There’s a ton of fan-created extra material out there [Read the article]
Day 6 of RPGaDay asks what RPG I most recently played. If it’s played, then it would be Savage Worlds Lankhmar: City of Thieves. My good friend, Mark, is running the game via Fantasy Grounds. We’ve just started a campaign in the city and it promises to be a good time. I’m playing a Fezzik-like Northlander called Mammut who is Brawny, a Brawler and suffers from the Clueless, [Read the article]
The question of the day for Day 5 of RPGaDay is what was my most recent RPG purchase? This would be a copy of Basic D&D. At some point, I lost my original copy and I’ve been thinking I would like to try the first adventure I ever ran/played again. Just the other day, I found a copy while looking through a local game store’s second hand books and immediately grabbed it. Over [Read the article]
Day 4 of RPGaDay asks what was the most surprising game for me. The game that surprised me the most was Dungeon World by Sage Kobold Productions. After about 30 years of role-playing, I thought I understood what gaming was and this was the first game that let me play a game, but got out of the way to let me play. Now, in all fairness, Dungeon [Read the article]
Day 3 of RPGaDay brings us the question of my favourite new game of the last 12 months. This is a tough one, as although I have enjoyed many of the new games I picked up in the last 12 months, my real favourites are older than 12 months. The “new” game that I’ve played the most of in the last year would have to be D&D 5th Edition, [Read the article]
Day 2 of RPGaDay brings us the question of which kickstarted game I was most pleased that I backed. This is a tough question, as I’ve backed so many games on kickstarter, so here’s my top three (in no particular order): Fate Core, not because I play it regularly, but because the Fate System Toolkit was part of it, which is an invaluable game design resource. [Read the article]
This year’s RPGaDay (a month long discussion of Tabletop RPGs created by David Chapman of Autocratik) has launched and I’ll be (trying) to cover his daily topics over the month of August. Today’s topic is forthcoming game you’re most looking forward to. That’s an easy and difficult one for me. It would have to be Will Hindmarch’s Project: Dark. It’s easy because that’s the one game that comes to mind if you [Read the article]
Here are five quick(ish) ways that you can make your convention game really stand out. Some might even be helpful for your home games! 1. Use Props Players love props. If there’s a letter they find, make one to hand out. If there’s a special artifact they find, make a card up for it. Some people go over the top on this and actually create a mock-up [Read the article]