I've been on a boardgame kick lately.

I've played a good number games of of Descent: Journeys in the Dark. We've started a campaign using the Road to Legend expansion. We've even created some customized heroes using the Build Your Own Hero Rules up on the Fantasy Flight Games support page. I enjoy the game but damn Descent takes for-frakking- ( Read more... )

Green Ronin's A Song of Ice and Fire is out on PDF version at the Green Ronin store.

I've always wanted to run a noble house game. I'm toying with the idea of running a campaign set in (an alternate version of) the Blackyfyre Rebellion. The players will be family members and retainers of an up and coming minor noble house, either with ambitions of ( Read more... )

This weekend I became a Patron of the next Open Design project: Halls of the Mountain King. The book will be either OGL/3rd Edition or 4th Edition. Naturally, I supported the 4E option. I hope this comes out soon enough so I can use it for my MapTool D&D game.

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If I told you about I was a fan of Harry the Wizard some of you might think of the other Harry. You know who I'm talking about. Yeah, that stripling who tromps off to Wizard school (Warthogs, was it?) and goes on zany adventures with his friends. Well, I hate to tell you, I'm not really fan of Harry Potter. I'm a fan of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden ( Read more... )

Haiku Monday appears twice a month at Uncle Bear. This week's topic: The Geek Movie That Changed Your Life. Here's my haiku for this week (slightly edited):
Pulp movie homage
I want to be a Jedi
Great special effects.

After fooling around a bit with MapTool, TokenTool  and RPTroll's Savage Worlds MapTool macros and add-ons, I think I may have some of the basics down. Thanks a lot, RPTroll!

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I'm planning to run a Savage Worlds One-Shot game online using MapTool.

I put together a one-pager for prospective players for a Savage Worlds monster-bashing one-shot. A PDF version can be found here

Thirteen Bullets (working title)
A Savage Worlds One-Shot of Supernatural Pulp Action
System: The game will be powered Savage Worlds and our ( Read more... )

"Steel & Spellcraft" is an irregular series of blog posts featuring a heroic fantasy setting on the planet Mars far into the distant future. Today, I present to you:

UTUM

• Atop a colossal ziggurat, the Maharajah of Utum commands the loyalty of the world's most populous nation... of living and undead!
• The Maharajah sponsors expeditions into ruins ( Read more... )

With all the face-to-face gaming that's going on lately, I've been tempted to run a game myself. It will be a Savage Worlds monster-bashing one-shot run over the Internetz. I've prepared a one-page 'Elevator Pitch' for prospective players. A PDF version of the can be found here - you can also find the one-pager behind the LJ cut below. Think Angel/ ( Read more... )

The past Geek Week saw me joining another face-to-face 4E D&D game, writing up some GM material for a online, one-shot Savage Worlds game of supernatural pulp action, hacking and slashing my way through minions and boss-monsters on Diablo II and devouring a couple issues of the Dresden Files comics.

A little while ago Blizzard announced that they ( Read more... )