Richard: Whoah. Did we just have a story-gasm ( Read more... )

Eric: Its not actually the warp core. I wish it was, actually, 'cause then I could also be a load-bearing end boss ( Read more... )

(Hey, look, we're back!)

Following Story Games Boston this week, Dev had this insightful thing to say about my choice of sides in a rules debate that was taking place between Eric and Robert:

locke61dv: Yeah, but -- you're cheating! You're just going, 'Gee, a Pinnick is arguing about a game mechanic. They're probably right.'

"A thought has come into my head, so now I have to say it, but I apologize in advance. OK? 'Its Desperate Housewives meets Six Feet Under!'"

Regrettably that's me, last night at Story Games Boston, during a pitch meeting for Primetime Adventures. I was responding to an evolving pitch for, essentially, Clue: the Series (which we did not end up

Last night's Exalted game didn't go exactly as I was expecting, but it was still pretty fun. That game really seems to be coming together. A couple of random quotes, out of context:

"Child... I cursed you ( Read more... )

So, for those of you who missed last night, I think Richard coined our official tagline for SGBoston.

"People, people! Pointless arguing about obscure game modules is what the internet is for! We have come here together tonight to play the games!"

SGBoston: Argue about games on the internet. Play them with us.

-N

This past weekend was the winter feast for the LARP that pooka_madness, dippy423, human_typhoon, and I attend. Almost all of the player "races" at the LARP are humans, and in particular all of us play Gypsies. This is important to note as the following conversation occurred between one of the other players (Gertrude) and I ( Read more... )

Last night was the intense and deeply satisfying conclusion of the Mountain Witch (here are write-ups of part one and two.) I didn't take notes, and I should have, because after game hamsterprophecy urged me to do another synopsis. There was even more going on this session than last, so I'm going to do my best to muddle through. I hope you'll forgive me if my ( Read more... )

This quote is excerpted from this Tuesday's open gaming session (the same one euchaotic already quoted.) We were playing Jiburi, a system based on Ron Edward's Trollbabe, and as in that game players describe the negative outcomes of failed rolls while the GM narrates the positive outcome of successful ones ( Read more... )

The following is taken from a three-shot of the Mountain Witch run by Nathan, aka hamsterprophecy. A write-up of the first game can be found here, and the second here. This quote is from the third session, for which a write-up may be forthcoming:

(The party has arrived in the hall of the Mountain Witch. foreign_devilry's character Nanami has been revealed to be a servant of ( Read more... )