Russet worked the nights of the 24th and 25th, last night we had a big dinner at the observatory. Because of a snow fall and no weather warm enough to melt it, telescope close conditions were really tight and the telescope was closed most of the night because of snow on top of the dome ( Read more... )

I have a band in the game, I can muster eight players. I have my main paid account, plus seven free-to-play accounts, which exist only to provide me with additional musicians. I can run all eight copies of the game on my 32 gig Asus gaming laptop. If I want, I can also run one of my wife's accounts for nine. And I'm planning on bringing that ( Read more... )

Very interesting article, and a lengthy one at that, interviewing Roy Kuntz. Roy was a teenager in Lake Geneva, literally living alone in the family house, and got involved with Gary, D&D, and TSR as he grew older. He saw it all happen from an inside perspective, and as the saying goes, "he alone is left to tell the tale" as Gary and Dave Arneson ( Read more... )

My friend Rich is running an RPG set in Three Musketeers era France, only there's also some magic. We're using a rules system called Fortune's Fool, which is pretty neat. It's diceless: you use a tarot deck to resolve all events ( Read more... )

A very good article on letting your players help define an RPG campaign setting. You can use the same technique for expanding player character backgrounds.

I definitely want to use this the next time I start an RPG campaign.

Perty darn spiff!

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/rpg_haiti.php

It is an excellent game and was created by a dentist. I really like German games because they're frequently not zero-sum games, which is for me to get $100, you have to lose $100.http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/17-04/

Talk about gobsmacked! Apparently Topps/Wizkids are CANCELING EVERY LINE except for HeroClix! I didn't like the feel when they merged with Topps, and now we know the results. So are the only games that we're going to see in the future HeroClix and sports stuff, and that's it? They made so many cool games, and now they're all gone ( Read more... )

Harn is among the games that I never got around to playing, but based on what is described in the article, I might have liked it. I'll have to give it a try if I ever stumble upon a campaign and get an opportunity. indisputably the game had/has a very loyal following, the Wikipedia entry for the game definitely sounds interesting: apparently the ( Read more... )

I was starting a new character in an existing campaign in which I had not played before. One of the players, Mike F., had a character who was a mystic, "see all, know all" type of character. I introduced my character to the rest of the group with a basic physical description, basic power backgroud, and that was about it. No revealing of my ( Read more... )