The game was going alright. We were reaching a bit. It was kind of puttering a tad ( Read more... )

If someone had told me that my favorite game session would happen at a con I would have said they were nuts ( Read more... )

Friday was Houses of the Blooded, Saturday was Arkham Horror and tonight was Beast Hunters. That was a geek-heavy weekend.

Sat down with Bret tonight and we played our first session of Beast Hunters. I really like the back and forth of the conflicts. On paper it made me queasy but at the table it was solid. We are more or less ignoring much of ( Read more... )

You can have a ruin in your domain in Houses of the Blooded. Anthony was looking over the rules, knowing that a prominent ruin was written into the fabric of his character, who leads a secret society dedicated to sussing out the secrets of the ruin but just didn't see the advantages right away ( Read more... )

Last night we had another playtest session of Houses of the Blooded. I wanted to just get Jeff rolling dice, as he had just made up his character. So I glanced at his character sheet and concocted a conflict where his PC's father, an old grizzled warrior asked his courtly son to embarass an up-and-coming warrior so that he wouldn't have to fight ( Read more... )

I rolled out of bed yesterday after an uneasy night's sleep and got to Jeff's. Julie made us eggs and bacon and sausage. It was wonderful. We recorded what we thought was one long show and then decided it was two shows but only 2/3's done. So, tired and loopy, we recorded the other 1/3's and now have two in the can ( Read more... )

I floated a few ideas past Jeff Hayes and Storn for tonight's gaming and they both were digging the idea of playing some Spirit of the Century noir turned up to 11. Jeff made a brutal, faceless vigilante, prone to throwing molotov cocktails at his enemies and Storn played a former assassin turned good-guy, prone to throwing crimson knives at his ( Read more... )

I never thought this game over skype would be this much fun but its been a blast.

Here's a write up of tonight's game.

We played Shock:.

It was fun and inspiring and problematic and interesting.

Here's a write-up.

Last night over skype, two orcs killed a Dragon who had been at war with the Seven Dwarven Kings for over a century.

I wrote up some NPC reactions, part writing exercise, part getting a grip on the consequences, part e-mail to the players.

( Human Mercenary, Dwarven Graybeard and Orc Whipmaster behind the cut )