I wrapped up another RPG game!

There's a couple blog posts about it in the Warhammer RPG tag, but I haven't written that much about. I took softlykarou's wood elf treesinger, oddsboy's Arabyan [note spell] warrior-poet, and another friend's innkeeper-turned-berserker from a prison underneath an apple-farming village filled with cultists, to a small Imperial town ( Read more... )

Monday was another session of my relatively long-running WFRP game--if I'm counting right, it's the 16th session--and the entire plot may have just been unraveled by an NPC critically failing a single roll.

In my last post about the game, I mentioned that I was planning on running my players through the basic plot of Ashes of Middenheim but with ( Read more... )

I realized recently that while I write a lot about RPGs I want to run, or RPGs I'm tinkering with, I write very little about RPGs I'm actually running or playing. Other than the Flight of the Phoenix AP posts I did and a single post on Fallout, I can't think of any. But I just finished running my Warhammer FRP group through The Oldenhaller Contract ( Read more... )

I've written before about how I don't like percentile systems, and while that's not really that true any longer, I think I've realized at least part of where my dislike came from. It has a lot to do with the way the information on the character's skills is presented to the player ( Read more... )

I was going to do more on the subject of sandbox vs. plotted games, but I can't organize my thoughts properly, so this one goes first ( Read more... )

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