It’s a holiday weekend and I’ve still got 7000 or so words to write by Monday, so here’s a dumb table for your super-hero game. The characters are forced to attend an awkward holiday gathering with a PC’s family. The PCs have to plan the super-hero team’s annual Christmas party (knowing that it will be…
Last week I posted a map and some basic information about the setting for the terrible fantasy novel I’m writing for National Novel Writing Month, The Quest For the Lord of the Dragonsword Throne. Since one of the characters is a wizardess, I’ve had to come up with some basic information about how magic works…
As I told you last week, I decided to write an awful fantasy novel for National Novel Writing Month. So far I’ve written right around the 1667 words per day needed to finish in 30 days and I feel good about finishing on time. My original plan was to build the world as I went, but…
This week’s post isn’t specifically about gaming, but since terrible fantasy and gaming kind of go hand in hand, I figure it’s not completely off-topic. As some of you may know, I wrote an M-Force novel for National Novel Writing Month a few years ago. The first draft isn’t anywhere near publishable, but it helped…
All Games Considered spent most of a recent show reviewing a whole bunch of Hex products. If you’re on the fence or want to know more about a particular QAGS book, there’s a good chance they mention it in the podcast. What follows was written for a sort of game essay contest for a blog…
Want some Hobomancer T-Shirts, Happy d20 Keychains, or other Hex swag? Good news. We’ve got a store at Zazzle now where you can order all sorts of Hex merchandise. I’ll personally be picking up some Hobomancer playing cards in the near future. If you read last week’s blog, you saw how I’d run a trashy…
Do you want to hear me talk about Hobomancer? You’re in luck, because the Game School podcast where I do just that came out a week or so ago. Also, the Hex crew will be at Archon this weekend. If you’re going and want to come to our panels or games, the schedule is on…
When we were working out how the songlines work in Hobomancer, we sort of unintentionally started playing with the idea of what you might call “the power of place.” Basically, the songlines are areas of especially strong magical energy, and that magic is fueled by the power of the stories. The railroads aren’t built along…
Last two: 30. Favorite RPG playing celebrity. Colbert. 31. Favorite non-RPG thing to come out of RPGing. I’m torn between two answers, so I’ll give them both. The first is the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. It started shortly after I discovered D&D, and while I was still young enough to watch cartoons without it being…
I’m going to do two questions today and then finish up the last two on Monday. 28. Favorite Game You No Longer Play I’m going to assume that “game” here refers to specific game worlds rather than systems or genres, since the main differences between Deadlands and the weird west games I run using QAGS…
