This is the first thing I ever kickstarted, back in the heady days of 2012 when Double Fine Adventure blew up on kickstarter and revealed the wonders of crowdfunding. I had only ever played the original Wasteland for maybe an hour, but I had read multiple let's plays of it and, more importantly, I'm a huge fan of the Fallout games which were its ( Read more... )

Working more on that post-magical apocalypse Pathfinder setting and finalizing the playable groups. So far, this is what I have:

• Humans: I probably don't have to explain these, and I haven't changed them much.
  
• Elves: Faerie nobles. I wrote about my take on them here.
  
• Fey-Blooded: Either the descendants of faeries or the children of people ( Read more... )

I love me some airship pirates, as my Flight of the Phoenix game writeups probably gave away. And poking around the Giants in the Playground forum today, I found reference to a kickstarter for Skybourne, which has airship pirates, some kind of death forest that took over the planetary surface, and is by the same company who did Spheres of Power, ( Read more... )

I've mentioned it before, but I'm running an ORE Fallout game for softlykarou and another friend. I've run a Fallout game before briefly, where I took softlykarou through part of the plot of Fallout 1 (which she's never played), but this time I was determined to break a bit out of my GMing rut. I'm typically one of those people who plots things out and has games with ( Read more... )

I finished reading Nausicaa last night. The ending was a bit odd in comparison to the rest of it ("Killing is bad, except those guys. They all need to die so we can live." What?), but overall it was quite well done ( Read more... )

There's some images available from the next Fallout game. With the change in setting, they won't need to worry much about what happened on the West Coast. It's shaping up to be a good game, from the minimal information we have. Have to wait until Fall 2008 for it, though ( Read more... )