Weird ‘76: New Year, New Campaign - Dolmenwood RPG
Using Dolmenwood, but not for Dolmenwood...kinda
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Dead Planet for Mothership - A Retrospective Play Report from 2023
Pulling together reports and memories of running the excellent Mothership RPG module Dead Planet!
Bare Bones Mork Borg – Stop Complaining it’s Hard to Read or Expensive
Cheap and easy to read, all Mork Borg complaints answered. I still think you should buy the real thing though. Its glorious.
Dolmenwood Unboxing (Finally!)
Oh My! I’ve been waiting so long (if ya know, ya know) I almost forgot why I was so excited for this!
Twilight: 2000 (4e) Campaign Update
I have been very remiss in any sort of play report for my campaign using Free League’s 4th edition of *Twilight:2000*. I attempt to catch up a bit.
The Empty Reach: A Sword and Planet Setting (Part 1)
This is the beginning of a campaign world that has been rattling around in my brain for the last couple years. Inspired by the sword and planet and planetary romance genres it’s a mushy sci-fi space fantasy thing. Don’t bother critiquing the science, I know it’s wrong, but hopefully just truthy enough to sort of hang together. My favorite such novel in this genre Jack Vance’s Planet of Adventure…
Dangerously Untested: DCC Inspired House-rules for The Black Hack
So when I finally got the nerve to start GMing a few years ago the game I decided to use was The Black Hack 2e by David Black. It's super simple yet loaded with awesome vibes and innovative mechanics like the usage die that just makes it a pleasure to run. Using it significantly reduced the new GM jitters I had. The adventure I chose to run was Doom of the Savage Kings by Harley Stroh and written…
Addition by Subtraction: If I ran Dungeons & Dragons 2024…
Not saying I will. Not saying I won’t. If I did, there probably wouldn’t be any dragons… My first ever RPG was 3rd Edition D&D. It was probably 2002. I would have been 19 or 20. I had never been a big fantasy fan, science fiction yes, but fantasy not really. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films were a big deal, and I fell in love with those and also Tolkien’s books. So, when a buddy offered to…
Blade Runner the RPG: Prep, Play, and Sorta Review
Recently I ran my first game of Blade Runner, and y’all, I couldn’t have been more pleased with how it went. While I did pick up the starter set and its apparently excellent module Electric Dreams I opted instead to create my own case file (adventure) instead. Everywhere I look I see praise for the two Blade Runner modules as great investigative adventures, but I was also wary of the high…
PSA: Just Play
For a very long time I didn’t think I could be a gamemaster. I wondered, “What kind of genius must you be to create and hold a world in your head?” Not only did this keep me from trying to run games, but it also kept me from playing at all. After I graduated college, I went into a pretty demanding career that both consumed a lot of time (like all careers do) but also required me to move every two…