I just played a one-shot of How We Came to Live Here. A one-shot clearly isn't ideal for showing off all that the game has to offer, but it was enough for my group to tell a neat story and form some strong impressions.

I'd played one and a half times before at conventions. The things that stood out to me then wound up being the highlights of this ( Read more... )

Saturday, 11/21/09 was NerdNYC's Thanksgiving version of their quarterly mini-convention, Recess. Dubbed "Thanksnerding", it was a full day of gaming, food, trivia, and hanging out.

I played a fun game using the Fortune's Fool system.I started my day by playing Fortune's Fool, a game in development by Jay Stratton for Pantheon Press. FF uses a ( Read more... )

Over at The Forge, I read a fair amount of descriptions of play sessions.  This is probably the funniest one I've ever read:

[Super Action Now!] Bubba Bad's bad day, + hobo clones & son of sasquatch

I haven't played the game yet, but I'm dying to.  It's by Marshall Burns.  He's got a copy of the rules online here.

After playing Ben Morgan's ( Read more... )