I'll be running two games at Gateway in a couple of weeks:

Black Dog PassSystem: FATE (Deadlands ( Read more... )

Here are a bunch of links relevant to re-purposing the Diaspora cluster rules for other setting parameters. First are two links to how the VGSC peeps are doing it for their current projects:
Hollowpoint and Chimaera.
Then a set of RPGnet threads with various ideas and links: An Alternate Cluster Modelling Game, the Clusternomicon, Repurposing the ( Read more... )

I watched a few movies on my flights:
Zombieland
Certainly a contender for best movie of 2009. Intiguing mix of “awkward teenage relationship comedy” and “zombie action comedy”.
Legion
A good idea executed poorly. They spent way to much time trying to get you to care about too many characters and not nearly enough time on the great premise.
Mad Max ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday was the final game of our Diaspora campaign. After establishing quite the set of facts in the previous week, it only remained to resolve them. I had sketched out a possible explanation and conclusion, some of which emerged naturally, and some of which ended up differently to my "plan".

( Somewhere... under the sea )

After a lackluster last Diaspora session, a great memory refresh of player generated FATE play from Morgan at Gamex, and a couple of conversations with players about their post- Full Light, Full Steam preference for narrative play, I decided to kick myself out of the traditional play rut that I had slid into. Instead, I turned some of the leads they ( Read more... )

Rob Donoghue has had a lot of interesting things to say about 4e recently. Last month he posted about page 42, the most important rules in the current incarnation of D&D, those for stunts. Today he posted about his hopes for a streamlined D&D in the forthcoming Red Box.* Like him, I'm not holding my breath for something that would work for me ( Read more... )

The Dresden Files RPG: The Doom of Damocles
Morgan ran four games of the Dresden Files over the weekend, all full, some with spectators, for a mix of FATE and Dresden Files fans, I was among the former. This adventure was like James Bond meets A Team: a team of supernaturals framed and sent on a dangerous mission to switch a Vampire's magical box ( Read more... )

( Blue Moon Branch )

Strategicons open at midday on the Friday, but I don't think I'd ever attended that first afternoon before. This time I was running my first Strategicon game Echoes, in the 2pm slot, playing Mike Olson's post-apocalyptic actioner, Leftovers, at 8pm and hitting Barcon at midnight.
Echoes
I had one pre-reg for my Diaspora game (a guy who had the game ( Read more... )

The crew of the Filly, recruited the Devil Dog's navigator, Stone, and headed for the slipgate to T85. There, they located the wreckage, maneuvered to it without attracting the fire of a nearby Flotilla vessel. As they were bringing a promising chunk of wreckage into the cargo hold with the robot arm, a luxury yacht appeared through the slipgate on ( Read more... )