My Fiasco playset Tomb of Horrors is now available on Tim Rodriguez' FiascoMobile app (RPGgeek thread here).
[Edit: Tim was concerned about copyright issues (although it falls well within fair use and gives full credit to all sources) so removed it. You can still grab it directly from the link below.]

You can download the pdf here, but I highly ( Read more... )

I hadn't been able to get a room at the Sheraton as I'd wanted because the Orccon itself was particularly busy this year, Gallifrey One was just down the street, and it was NBA All-Star weekend in L.A., so most of the hotels near LAX were full. Accordingly, I had been expecting to either get very little sleep on Saturday night, or miss the Sunday ( Read more... )

I submitted my first few games for OrcCon 2011 this morning: Fiasco using my Tomb of Horrors playset, my favourite game that has yet to be published, Psi*run, and Smallship Troopers (Smallville RPG), but I don't have a blurb for that yet. If I have time, I hope to rejig Echoes and offer that as well, or perhaps I'll run the almost almost Game Chef ( Read more... )

I posted yesterday that I'd started making a Fiasco playset. What's a playset? Here's the glossary entry from the game:
Playset: The heart of a good fiasco - a combination of setting, situation, sub-genre, and kick in the pants. A Playset consists of four lists - Relationships, Needs, Objects, and Locations. The last three are collectively known as ( Read more... )

Well, my plan for some last minute blogging was mostly scuppered by a quick trip to the pub. I do feel a bit better for it, so it's not a total loss. There's still plenty of night left anyway. I was hoping to finish my Fiasco playset and get some solid work on my Echoes re-work, but I need to re-read the source material for the former, and get back ( Read more... )

I ordered the Fiasco print and PDF bundle today yesterday and spent the past a couple of hours reading the pdf and reminding myself of how the game works and starting to work on a playset with the help of the tools people have assembled on RPGGeek. I'll have more to say about Fiasco playsets when I'm finished with mine, but in a nutshell, they're a ( Read more... )

On day two of the Neoncon trip, time started to fold back on itself. Yesterday morning, which was Friday, I sent an email asking someone how their Friday had been and in the evening I referred to a game we played "yesterday" that we had in fact played today. The spatio-temporal anomalies of both Vegas and Conventions are beginning to take hold ( Read more... )