Dry Spoiler-Free Stuff First:
I ran a game at Mephit FurMeet and had a fun time. We used a system called Mini Six, which is a variant of the Open D6 system. Both are free. My impression of the system was that it was just about right for my style of GMing, because I lean heavily toward freeform gaming (coming at RPGs from a writer's perspective) and ( Read more... )

When I run a one-shot RPG in person, it tends to go horribly wrong, but in an entertaining way. This time it was at Furry Weekend Atlanta. One or two people remembered that I'd run a version of "Exalted" cobbled together from three conflicting introductory rulesets. And they actually wanted to play with me again! This time I printed out the ( Read more... )

While visiting Pennsylvania, I drove out to Six Feet Under Games (Amish buggy count: 2), but wasn't able to get in on any games. Before giving up I noticed how many games there are lately with a theme of fantasy heroes on a quest and/or exploring a dungeon. Some of them:

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I'm heading back from my friend Phil's party, where I got in two sessions of roleplaying games. (Also two games of Settlers with slightly extended board, and Chrononauts with new cards covering the 2000s.)

Kanren ran a d20 Modern game (free rules) as part of an ongoing campaign setting he has -- modern world plus rare magic. I missed their first ( Read more... )

There were Men In Black at the game shop: people doing game demos for Steve Jackson Games. I got in on a few ( Read more... )

After much planning and fretting I had notes and fancy printed character sheets for the RPG I was going to run here at Mephit FurMeet. Two people showed up, not including the one who'd e-mailed me around 5 times about it. And of them, one was only kind of interested, and the other planned to run off in less than an hour to play "Furoticon", the ( Read more... )

http://kschnee.xepher.net/rpg/chao-xian/

In the northern lands lies a hermit kingdom of magic, oppression, and things more chilling than mere cold.I've uploaded "Chao-Xian", an expansion book for the tabletop role-playing game "Jadeclaw". (PDF format, about 400KB.) It was ( Read more... )

Played 2010.7.24 at Megaplex (Orlando, FL), about 9 PM to 12:15 AM.

Five players joined in for my attempt at running "Exalted". I butchered the rules by compiling my own based on the four versions found in the official 2nd Edition core book and three sample PDFs. I started with an intro to the game world. Character creation came next, letting ( Read more... )

"The Storytelling System is very simple." -White Wolf, Exalted sample adventure "Return To Tomb of Five Corners"

I've got four distinct versions of the rules for the RPG "Exalted", between the 2nd Edition core book and three sample PDFs. My eyes glaze over when reading the details of how you can channel Willpower through a Virtue to add Successes ( Read more... )

From the freeform, IRC-based game I'm in, here's a comparison with other games. Good players, and opportunities for fun whether it's in-character messing around or serious planning of how to Save the World. This session is the intro to a fairly traditional dungeon area ( Read more... )