small dreams has always had an odd relationship with time.

small dreams is a Changeling: The Dreaming game. I'm the GM. It has a sprawling cast of a dozen or so character players, with five or six regulars at any one time. The game recently came back to life after a long breakThis game has an odd relationship with time. Three reasons why, that I ( Read more... )

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Plug plug plug!

Local lads jarratt_gray and qarl have had a board game published by Z-Man Games!

Any readers at Gen Con keen for a taste of game from some of the South Pacific's finest should drop by Z-Man at booth 215 to check it out.

Read more at BoardGameGeek:

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I just voted in the ENnies.

Think about doing the same. Gametimer rpgactionfigure has a couple of Hot War nods, and if you've seen the game you'll agree that's a good place to start...

Even if you don't know anything you can vote in the "Best Cover" category :P

I’m reviving another game ( Read more... )

The second half of my interview with the fabulous Karen Healey:

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A couple of weeks ago, I interviewed the fabulous Karen Healey.  Part 1 is below:

Karen Healey is a New Zealand writer, gamer, and academic, currently based at the University of Melbourne.  She's studying the fan culture surrounding superhero comics, is involved with the feminist collective Girl-Wonder and the women-oriented gaming magazine Cerise, ( Read more... )

Writing out the games I played last year has me in the mood to plan out what I want to play this year. Last time I tried this, I think I was overly ambitious; this year, I'm keeping it simple:

• I want to run a 3 to 7 episode game of Mouse Guard (which my Tuesday night group has just started).

• After that, it looks like we'll be playing Season 2 ( Read more... )

Thy Vernal Chieftains (TVC) is a set of storytelling rules by Paul Czege, author of My Life with Master and Bacchanal (a game I'll be comparing to TVC later in this review). TVC is extremely readable, with an approachable tone and clear descriptions of how play proceeds; however I found myself confused about how one particular element - Traits and ( Read more... )

This is not the first interview on Gametime, but it is the first of a new series of interviews. Gametime is the New Zealand RPG groupblog, so in this series we interview people in the RPG scene with a New Zealand connection. Hope you enjoy it!

Lev Lafayette (tcpip) is the editor and publisher of RPG Review, a free .pdf zine that just released its ( Read more... )