This morning I was thinking about my favourite roleplaying games and how this differs from my favourite game settings. To clarify, there are lots of games I like but think their setting lack anything appealing, and on the flip side there are many, many game settings I love but think their mechanics do little to reflect their actual play feel ( Read more... )

So, I've come to the conclusion that I much prefer 'Roll Under' mechanics in RPGs than 'Roll Over'. In otherwords, I feel more comfortable with rolling under a set number (be it skill, skill+attitude, etc.) rather than trying to be a target number set by the GM by rolling the die and adding bonuses ( Read more... )

I never intended it to play out that way, but you could have called this past Saturday - my day gaming with Steve. Let me explain…

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So last night was abit of a wash out. Late leaving work, and unexpected visitors meant that I really wasn't as keyed up as I should have been to write. Instead Emma & I watched the Star Trek reboot movie from a few years back, you know some simple husband and wife time, in preparation for watching the recently released new ST movie ( Read more... )

I'm still wondering if this is the best place to restart my blogging, but until I find something better...

It's been a long time since I last posted my gaming thoughts and reflects up online, so bear with me if this is all too brief.

• I recently ran a two session Hunter the Vigil game at our Friday night group (which included a new player - both to ( Read more... )

This will be the last post I put up here, for a while at least. The reasons are many fold, but basically this blog isn't really doing what I set it up to do any more - track my journey in various roleplay, war and board games. In the past few months adding entries here has become a bit of a chore, and I actually find myself questioning where anyone ( Read more... )

I'm sure that you could do an entire book on the process of writing and developing a scenario, and I'm sure that the big name freelancers (such as Robin Laws, Ken Hite, etc) each have their own procedures they follow when mapping out and completing a plot line.

For me it's back to my training as a Tech Writer. You map out the Table of Contents and ( Read more... )

I can't believe that the X-Files started 20 years ago!

Over the past few days I've been laid low with a head cold. While I'm mostly recovered now (and back to work), I spent the couple of days off watching episodes of the X Files. (I actually restarted watching from the pilot a year or so ago, but I'm not really one of those guys who can watch ( Read more... )

So my copy of Cthulhu by Gaslight (the brand new 3rd edition) arrived today from Book Depository ( Read more... )

Having survived the Thousand Thrones campaign, I'm quite inspired to revisit the Die Six fantasy system I started a few years back. I now I've got a good core idea, it's a matter of working out the kinks and actually writing up my ideas ( Read more... )