Before getting started on the "Orient Express" campaign we played a couple games of the Dresden Files Card Game. Basically a co-op board game adapted from the Fate System rules where you're attempting to solve on the books using an assortment of characters from the whole series. First we tried "Fool Moon" with Harry (one player always has to be ( Read more... )

Finished up the introductary adventure and either Rotes are a bit overpowered or we're still not quite grasping something.  Still, despite the mad sorceror and his summoned Black Dogs we managed to rescue the coffee witch and stop the ritual.  I mean him shunting all the feedback from his Evil Spells into enviromental effects and literally bringing ( Read more... )

While the magical bomb/ward was defused at the end of the last session, doing so did leave my Ben "Don't Call Me Kolchak" Franks in a bit a coma situation.  But handidly I still had Sean Barnes, heavy metal bassist and werewolf.  Who was out on bail thanks to Byron's sorceror.  So we set off for the ol' fort/park where the crazy ex (and Sean's ( Read more... )

Had one of the other players decide to drop out during the session.  She felt a little like game prep was too close to homework assignments and wasn't really clicking into the game.  Not sure how much was general gaming and how much the FATE rules system.  I'm hopeful maybe she might have better luck with a less rules-intensive system.  But for now ( Read more... )

Most of this session involved introducing Frazer's Fomori foundling aka Fish-Boy and Alyce's Last Priestess of Danu aka Sect-whose-followers-have-mostly-been-murdered-by-Fomori.  Plus the fact that my former crime beat reporter doesn't really trust Bryon's ex-mob enforcer sorceror.  But eventually a tentative peace was reached and we were able to ( Read more... )

The others had managed a meet-up on a Saturday to do some of the communal character building, which I had missed due to needing sleep between work shifts.  So this week was finishing up some of their background and Aspects, while building up mine and integrating some with the others.  After we were going to go back to the pre-gens and the practice ( Read more... )

This week we all sat down with some pre-gen characters to run thru a short module as practice.  And first off we fleshed out additional Aspects for the pre-gens and how they related to each other with various questions.  So my heavy metal musician werewolf ended up being in his late 40s.  And used to date Bryon's East African war refugee sorceress ( Read more... )

I still can't believe the roommate spent $20 for it. I mean, don't get me wrong, its a very nice Dresden Files related short story. Though Thomas' final solution for the bad-guy is..um..bothersome at best. But the "book" is barely 70 pages. And small pages at that. And some of them are full-page illustrations. And yes, those illustrations are ( Read more... )

Dresden Files: the RPG. The main writer looks to be chadu of Atomic Sock Monkey, creator of the critically acclaimed Dead Inside and the Zantabulous Zorceror of Zo (a great book, totally worth the 30 bucks I spent for the POD version)...

I was really expecting this book to focus on the Winter Court of the Fae. So the focus on the White Court of the Vampires caught me slightly off-guard. Still more Thomas is good. Plus there were several future plot points being set up here. AND more background on what kind of dog Mouse is. Usefull for anyone out there thinking of writing up ( Read more... )