Most game masters feel more motivated and creative when people want to play their games, encourage them to work on some specific idea, or look forward to a specific game that they’ve considered running. However, it can be hard to know what potential games somebody might have in their mind; we don’t exactly have a whiteboard on which people keep ( Read more... )

   On Monday I received my limited edition copy of Wild Talents. It’s a beautiful hardcover book with 240 pages in full colour. I’ve had a PDF copy of the Wild Talents playtest document for a couple of years, so I knew what to expect from the basic rules. It’s basically the same game as GODLIKE (WWII supers), ORE Mecha (giant robot combat), Star ( Read more... )

   I finished reading Sheri S. Tepper’s The Companions. I suspected that it would be one of her “Humanity has ruined the world, it’s better off without us!” books. Which is kind of was. There were a lot more alien races in this book though.

Ah, willogs. When the main representative of an alien race is named Walking Sunshine and likes nothing so ( Read more... )

   This is a blurb that I have written for Necronomicon. The website went live today.

2118 is a two session scenario for five players, set at an unknown time in Earth’s future. The characters are ultras, evolved humans who possess inexplicable abilities. Prior knowledge of the Wild Talents roleplaying game is unnecessary.

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