One PC, based around a Duron 700, which works, but I have no idea what the other components or specs are. Old mouse + keyboard, no monitor ( Read more... )

What is this game about?

Fighting for the things you care about and accepting the people who care about you, while solving the mystery of the ancient skies through epic airborne conflict.

How does it do this?Mystery: The players create fragmentary clues to the mystery, and complete them through the events of play. In the finale, the mystery's ( Read more... )

Last Exile went swimmingly at Arcanacon. In particular, the Support Scenes were fantastic, and brought out some of the best character interaction I've ever seen in one of my games. I think it's a very solid mechanic ( Read more... )

We ran some Indie game demos at Arcanacon over the last few days, and the response has been great.

I've run Best Friends (which is a great way to open a series of demos), Agon (which is a lovely contrast to Best Friends, and shows some fine indie crunch) and The Shab-al-Hiri Roach (gamers intuitively grasp academic bitchiness).

Scott was running ( Read more... )

Just had the first playtest of the Arcanacon version of my Last Exile game ( Read more... )

After four sessions, our Agon game has finished up, with the heroes serving the will of Hades in a messy and tragic final scene ( Read more... )

OK, back to rpgs.

In my Last Exile game, I want "taking damage" - getting hurt in a conflict, whether physical, social or intellectual - to have the consequence of needing someone else's helpThe way this works is that when you create a character, the other players decide which NPCs care about you - that's your Crew. When you've been damaged, you ( Read more... )

This is the fiction side of the Blue Rose game I ran last night - the handouts and some brief explanation of what happened. It doesn't offer any particular insight into BR itself; it's more of an example of a setting made by banging a random word from Xenosaga into Wikipedia and following links ( Read more... )

We had a quick one-shot of Blue Rose last night, and I liked it quite a lot ( Read more... )

Finished FFXII. Halfway through NWN2 and Xenosaga III (the former is a bit of a chore, but I feel like I should before getting deeply into the editor; the latter is a joy). Suikoden V and Okami sitting by the PS2 ( Read more... )