Continuing with #RPGaDay2015… 22. Favorite Gaming Environment Since the games I play usually don’t have a lot of moving parts, I’m not really picky about where I play. As long as there’s a place to sit and roll some dice, I’m good. My least favorite place to play games is a crowded convention center room…
Today I’m going to answer 4 questions, which will bring me up to the question with a number that matches the current date. I’m then going to fall behind immediately by not posting on the weekend, but at least I’ll be completely on schedule for the meme for 24 hours. For 18-20, I’m going to…
Favorite Fantasy RPG “Fantasy” is a pretty broad category, so I’m going to assume the typical gaming definition of “Sword & Sorcery and/or Elves and Shit.” In that case, the best fantasy game I’ve ever played is the Sword & Sorcery game that the Hex staff plays once every year or two when we can…
15. Longest campaign played The longest game I’ve ever played was (QAGS co-founder) Leighton Connor’s “Ficton” super-hero game (not to be confused with The Hex Ficton), which I’ve mentioned here before. It think it lasted around six years, but I’m not sure if it would technically be considered a single campaign; the climax was rooted…
I just found out about the #RPGaDay2015 meme that’s going around. Since I’m coming in halfway through (and since a lot of my answers to the early questions are very short), I’m going do the first 14 of them today, start doing the “A Day” part tomorrow with #15 and post a new one every…
You know an old game that’s a lot of fun? It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show by Stellar Games. I think it’s safe to say that it was the first game where the genre was “camp.” The premise was that the characters were B-movie actors in a terrible horror movie. The rulebook was…
Whenever someone suggests that sometimes it’s ok to ignore the rules, someone else inevitably asks why you should even bother to use rules if you’re not going to slavishly follow them at all times, apparently to make sure that the discussion is safe from crows. A super-secret project that I’m currently working on required me…
Marvel might have coined (or at least popularized) the term “cinematic universe,” but it’s not a new idea. It’s the way comic book universes have worked for decades, and according to one theory nearly every TV show ever made takes place in a cinematic universe inside a snow globe. A cinematic universe is basically a…
As many of you already know, today is the official start of Shark Week (though if you’re like me you started early with the Rifftrax Live presentation of Sharknado 2 last Thursday). Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
Last week, I set out to answer a question we get periodically, “when are you guys releasing more Qerth books?” but kind of got sidetracked explaining what happened with Qerth (and our company, and the game industry) between the time we started writing it in 1997 or 1998 and the book’s eventual release in 2006….
