Proudly announcing:
FIREFOXBORN: THE ROLEPLAYING GAME

Featuring the following featureful features!

• FULL-COLOR INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS!
  
• OBSCURE TECHNICAL HUMOR!
  
• A REALLY DERANGED PARODY OF AN RPG SYSTEM THAT MAYBE 12 PEOPLE HAVE PLAYED!

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Geez, I thought I'd have recovered from my hiking trip faster than this. But I've been spending my weeknights readjusting my sleep schedule and my weekend catching up with local friends. The computer looms in the background. Taunting me silently. With its eyes.*

So while I'm using Hugin to assemble cool panoramic shots from the trip in ( Read more... )

If you've ever played a tabletop roleplaying game, there's a phrase I guarantee you have heard, no matter what system, no matter how fresh or how experienced your fellow players are:*

"Whose turn is it again?"

Initiative is a pain. That's one of those natural laws of gaming, right up there with grappling rules being unusable. When you're ( Read more... )

(A player handout for tonight's Fireborn campaign ...)    ... But one day my prayers were answered in a way I thought not possible ( Read more... )

My first clue should have been when I overheard my players talking in the next room.

They were catching up with some friends during a LAN party in late December. Exchanging bon mots about the neat things happening in their life ( Read more... )

As my regular readers know, for about two months I've been running a game of Fireborn, an RPG where all the characters are reincarnated dragons living in human bodies in the modern world. Strictly speaking, this isn't a post about Fireborn, but I'm going to start it off with an illustrative anecdote from the ongoing campaign ( Read more... )

Previously in "First Impressions": Character creation | Gameplay/CombatI recently talked my roleplaying group into starting up a game of Fireborn, an RPG where all the characters are reincarnated dragons living in human bodies in the modern world. This is my continuing documentation of our gameplay experiences, in hopes of providing fellow dragons ( Read more... )

Good morning, and happy heathen-based Winter ritual! I made you a present.

Those of you reading my series of Fireborn review posts may be curious to get a game going yourself. So here's something you can throw in to give your players some social intrigue in the mythic age! There are several "epochs" (mythic-age settings) during which ( Read more... )

As I've previously mentioned, I've talked my roleplaying group into starting up a game of Fireborn, where all the characters are reincarnated dragons living in human bodies in the modern world. A week ago Sunday, I finally got my first chance to see Fireborn in action.


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As I've mentioned several times in the last few weeks, I've talked my roleplaying group into starting up a campaign of Fireborn. It's a now out-of-print RPG in which the player characters are all reincarnated dragons. As you can imagine, as a dragon (and a gamer) myself, this is right up my alley; I'm sharing my experiences in an effort to help ( Read more... )