I'd previously expressed my excitement both about the games I was going to run, and the games I was going to play at Gateway. I was not disappointed.

Friday
Friday Afternoon: The Lost Temple-City of Xtylos (Dungeon World; Christopher Stone-Bush ( Read more... )

The Dark Zone (The Sprawl; Friday, 8pm, 4 hours, 4 players)

Those in the know call it The Slice because it’s the sharp end of the bleeding edge. The corporations call it the Dark Zone because they don’t enter it, don't control it, can't see inside. You carry the law with you in the Slice. It’s the warm plastic of your gun, the cool metal of your ( Read more... )

At the end of June I was in Seattle for Go Play NorthWest (GPNW), a casual story-game-focused convention. You can read about the consumptive aspects of the convention on Ardens, this post is about the gaming itself.

Friday Night: Mission Boston (The Regiment)
John Aegard (Johnzo) had released this scenario for The Regiment into the wild a few ( Read more... )

Friday Afternoon: The Sprawl: The Flint Termination
This was a new scenario for The Sprawl, and it went as well as any new scenario has gone so far, although it didn’t go quite as I expected. Both of those are good things! I’ve written several scenarios for The Sprawl by this point, and I generally find that the first one doesn’t run particularly ( Read more... )

This is a hold page for my games:

LV-572 (The Regiment: Colonial Marines)

The Corporation lost contact with this colony a month ago... Everything looks calm... "Contact! We have a blip sir!"

The Flint Termination (The Sprawl)

Sometimes the job's just straight out wetwork.

The Sprawl is a game of mission-based action in a gritty neon-and-chrome ( Read more... )

After the fantastic success of last year's Big Bad Con Morgan and I once more made the road trip from Los Angeles to Oakland to sup from the chalice of Bay Area gaming. This time Andrew was already in situ (although got screwed a bit by work) and Colin was in baby-caring mode, but Jesse was able to join us in the car and David met us up there, so a ( Read more... )

Many of you have no doubt seen my various Twittering and Facebookings about GenCon over the last few days. The task of putting all of that in context in particularly daunting as the whole weekend is currently amalgamated in my head as a vast mass of AWESOME ( Read more... )

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... )