Day of Games is only a couple of weeks away. I'm not sure when I'll have definitively completed the list of the games I'll be taking; at last check, it looked like this.

My process will begin with The Sprawl. I'll take a look at that over the next few days and see if I can come up with a compelling set of love letters. If so, that'll be on offer. ( Read more... )

Over the second half of 2011, my Glendale gaming group played an excellent short Apocalypse World campaign.

James (NoClue), the player of Proust, the Operator, has posted an account of the game on Barf Forth Apocylyptica. I played Cobra, the Driver.

I've updated my post about NZ Craft Beer TV with the latest episode.

A Geography Lesson for the Tea Party.

Car window stickers representing individual family members is quite the thing over here. It seems particularly common among Hispanic families. Here's the geek version: Star Wars stickers.

At the EndGame minicon last weekend, seannittner ran a BSG ( Read more... )

I submitted The Tree of Souls for Kapcon this morning. Round one only, but maybe in Games on Demand if I'm there and, you know, demand happens.

But really, I'll run Dungeon World at the slightest provocation.

I also promised to run Apocalypse World for drbunnyhops, so that will happen too.

In more immediate news, my Thursday group made characters for ( Read more... )

At Origins 2011, Kenneth Hite (Day After Ragnarok, Trail of Cthulhu, and much more) held a seminar on setting design which the Yog-Sothoth guys recorded: Kenneth Hite on Fundamentals of Setting Design.

Hite three fundamentals are:

1. Start with your goals for the setting (as opposed to plate tectonics and weather patterns).
   
2. Establish a compass ( Read more... )

Last Thursday we played Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel's excellent Apocalypse World hack, Dungeon World. I love this hack almost as much as I love Apocalypse World itself.

The characters are:
Rathnait (Me), an evil Black Elf Fighter [Actually, it just occurs to me that I should run a game setting DW in Titan, the FF world ( Read more... )

... dary!

After a late night drinking and playing Dominion, we all skipped the morning session of Buckets, arriving just in time for the second of the three Saturday RPG sessions. I ran Cthulhu Dark in the first, adapting San Diegan Simon Yee's scenario from HyphenCon to 1920s France. I essentially ran this game off-the-cuff and during play, ( Read more... )

Buckets starts tonight with our local version of Barcon: D&D at chez Lex. And by D&D I mean Dominion and Drinking.

I think I'll be playing the exact slots by ear, but I'm prepared to run the Apocalypse World scenario "Hatchet City", Will Hindmarsh's Lady Blackbird hack Alien Survivor, Psi*Run, and a shamelessly stolen Cthulhu Dark scenario by one ( Read more... )

Day of Games last Saturday was the centrepeice to a great weekend. More than that, it bled over into my subsequent week in interesting and awkward ways.

Let's start at the beginning. I arrived in Wellington on Wednesday evening and spent Thursday with surrealfish and prolegomenon before the arrival of k2vsate, javelin_nz and confusiontempst. Thus began the drinking and the Dominion. There was a brief ( Read more... )

Know, O Prince, that between the years when the Serpent fell and the oceans drank America and the gleaming cities, and the rise of the Sons of Space, there was an Age undreamed of, when nations guttered low and flared brilliant across the poisoned world like dying stars - California and Texas each claiming the flag of the West, France torn asunder ( Read more... )