This post will be something relatively close to liveblogging my reactions to reading through the D&D Next (I still think of it as 5th edition) material. Note that I haven’t played or run any of it yet, and won’t until Monday. Also, I can point to things here that contradict […]
As one of the test audience for Samhaine‘s system reviews, I played in a Savage Worlds session this past weekend, set in the classic D&D setting of Ravenloft. (In fact, he’s even posted the module!) The GM pregenerated characters and some backstory for each of us. I played Rhys Sulien […]
This past weekend, Stands-in-Fire ran a session of 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars, a rules-light game written to be about space marines killing bugs on the Planet of the Week. Our GM reworked the game’s assumed setting, so instead we fought zombies in various Left 4 Dead configurations as the […]
As part of Samhaine’s ongoing tests of all kinds of indie-gaming systems, we recently played a very enjoyable evening of Don’t Rest Your Head. I played Corwin van der Hoyt, a crosstown courier who worked for some kind of shady people; he was a Mirror’s-Edge style thrillseeker. Ever since the […]
From March of 2009 to March of 2010, the Monkey King ran a campaign of Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying for a group of six players, eventually expanding to seven. I’m not sure at this point how many sessions we played, but I would guess that it was somewhere between 15 […]
At present, the tabletop systems freshest in my mind are Arcana Evolved (a cousin of D&D 3.5), D&D 4th edition, Technoir, Mage: the Awakening, Over the Edge, and to a lesser extent A Song of Ice and Fire RPG. This odd melange of systems and genres naturally leads to a […]
Yesterday, I played my first-ever game of Mansions of Madness with Kainenchen, Stands-in-Fire, and Mrs. Stands-in-Fire. None of us had played before or read the rules exhaustively, though Stands-in-Fire had gone over them a bit – so he played the Keeper. This review, then, is based entirely on player-side experience; I […]
Strangely, this post is not about Portal 2, which Kainenchen bought just last night. No, this post is about Overlord and Overlord 2. If you follow those links, you’ll discover that GameSpot gave the first game a middling grade, and gave the sequel a slightly worse grade. In brief, I have […]
To take breaks from the writing I’ve been doing lately, I’ve played through the core campaign of Dungeons. It begs for comparison to the classic and excellent Dungeon Keeper games, of which I played Dungeon Keeper 2. I’ll go ahead and get that out of the way: where Dungeon Keeper […]
Thanks to a certain confluence of events, last night’s session of Samhaine‘s Dresden Files game had only my wizard and Kainenchen’s character Trudy the Vampire Slayer Serial Killer were the only ones playing. Because there were only two of us, we decided to play through a “what-if” of the previous session, rather […]
