Having decided some time ago to call my steampunk role-playing campaign Steam Elephants, this new miniature has rocketed to the top of the “must-have” list:


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Last weekend's game was my first experience as a techno-GM, thanks to a loan of msinvisfem's laptop, and the wonders of WiFi.

I guess I have been a techno-player before, as there's one game in particular (Aulm, for those who will know what I'm talking about) where I used a Quicksheet spreadsheet and HanDBase databases on a Palm III in order to keep track of ( Read more... )

Yesterday I ran a role-playing game for the first time this century.

It still needs some ironing out on the systems side of things, but it seemed to go OK. I'll leave flybynightpress, msinvisfem, and qidane to judge.

As promised, it's a steampunk game run using the Forgotten Futures rules, with some modifications. I'm calling it Steam Elephants, because that was an ( Read more... )

Things I put on hold about three months ago are starting up again. In particular, flybynightpress has twisted my arm into naming a new date for running a steampunk game ( Read more... )

The first change I've made from the standard Forgotten Futures rules is pretty much cosmetic, but it stems from my knowledge of my own failings as a GM.

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I've been talking about running a steampunk game for years. Not a huge number of years, but definitely years. In an effort to avoid actually doing anything about it, I did what any sensible person does and bought a whole load of figures to run the game with. It would plainly now be impossible to run the game until the figures were painted.

( Escape from the 21st century... )