A year or so of craft beer obsession and a couple of disappointing St Patrick's day outings in past years had me unenthused about my usual cross town Irish pub expedition, so Morgan's invitation to play a St Pat's one off for Actual People, Actual Play was an excellent substitute. We had all recently seen John Carter and were in the mood for some ( Read more... )

This was a great game. One that has consumed much of my thought over the past few week and demanded a more detailed discussion than my usually short con game descriptions. One of the greatest things about it was that I had heard such good things about it going in, yet it lived up to my high expectations. I could talk about the many artistic reasons ( Read more... )

Also from Gregor at Red Moose Games, a selection of quotations on the GM as MC.

Here's Jeff Rients ( Read more... )

Last year, every con I went to was fantastic. I came out thinking each one was as good as the last. While I had a great time at this one, it wasn't as good. I think because I couldn't get a room, had to commute and most of all had to pull out of the first three sessions.

My Games
Pre-Con Drama
Saturday I
Saturday II
SundayStill, I am excited for ( Read more... )

Last night was my first night playing in the Dresden Files campaign I've just joined. My character is Mešlamta-ea, the emissary of Nergal. I'm going to mostly give s story hour in this post, but I'll intersperse that with thoughts on play and the game ( Read more... )

I'm around 10,800km, 15 hours and $2000 away from Kapcon 2011, so a gaming related post is as close as it gets:

• If I'd thought about it, I would have posted Ryan Maclin's exposition on the very American sounding seven layer convention burrito before Kapcon. Yeah, that would have been more helpful. Its a succinct description of the process of ( Read more... )

It's been a couple of years since I made a character for a campaign (since mashugenah's Space Western game, I think), so I was excited to make one for a Dresden Files game last night. I think it was also the first time that I've made a character without looking at the book beforehand, so it was a good reminder of the evocative power of a well written game ( Read more... )

I made some resolutions for the first time last year. Gaming Resolutions. Hey, I didn't do as bad as I thought! I remembered these a couple of months ago, but only partially.

1. Play the RPGs I have with me in LA that I have yet to play.
This was the only part I remembered and I flunked this part. The only game unplayed game I managed to play in 2010 ( Read more... )

Christmas in Los Angeles is a like a gaming exile compared to Christmas in New Zealand. This is probably a combination of the relatively restricted pool of my gaming friends here, and the greater distances that people have to travel to see their families. But at any rate, I'm in Saratoga, CA, not Los Angeles at the moment. I know some gamers up ( Read more... )

It's been a good day on livejournal:

• grandexperiment alerted my to an exciting RPG development, Far West. There's some art and a link to a mailing list signup here; the website will be live at some point this month apparently. A few years ago I started making notes on a Wild West/Far East mashup, so I'm happy to see that someone will be doing the hard work for me ( Read more... )