Tag: rpg

Also: First edition Pendragon RPG now free on DriveThruRPG.

This one lasts until 01/31/2017: the Pendragon RPG is one of the legends and classics in the field, so check it out.  Lord knows when I’ll have a chance to thumb through it, though…

Mega New Year’s Day Sale: @EclipsePhase RPG.

99 cents per PDF for the entire Eclipse Phase future horror-cyberpunk RPG digital line (ONE DAY ONLY).  Feel free to go here to pick it up, but be careful.  That 99 cent thing can run up the score pretty quickly.

First game in over a month!

…And damned if I remember what the 7th Sea adventure was going to be about. Well, not entirely true: it’s about a couple of families in Castille and a marriage and beer. And it was a comedy, not a tragedy. Other than that… well, I hope my players kept good notes.

Moe Lane

PS: Nah, none of them read this site and even if they did they’d just make up something that advantages their characters and I’d run with it. Like you do.

Tweet of the Day, The Buried Lede Here Is The ‘Yellow King RPG’ Bit edition.

The Yellow King will be a standalone GUMSHOE game that incorporates the horror fiction of Robert W Chambers (and nothing else, so no actual Cthulhu or Yog-Sothery*)  Also: please note that I didn’t watch more than a little bit of the actual gameplay video, because I don’t typically watch many of those.  Robin Laws and the rest could have spent half the video chanting “Yog-Sothoth Neblod ZIN!” and I would have missed it.

 

*It’d be interesting if some of Chambers romantic fiction later got tossed into the mix.  Dude probably never would have believed that his horror fiction is the only reason why we even remember his name these days. Funny old world, huh?

So… since they’re bringing back all the RPG lines anyway, which ones do you want back?

God bless crowdfunding, huh? – Because half the stuff that I played or read when I was a kid is getting updated or reprinted or whatnot.  But only half; which is bad. And yet, good, because maybe it’ll get rejuvenated later. Personally, there are two games that I want to see come back, more than any other.

  • The first is something called In Nomine, by Steve Jackson Games: angels and demons fighting it out on planet Earth, in pretty much any way that you can imagine. I loved the setting, and I can still think in it, if I take the time to. And I flatter myself that I had a reasonably interesting take on the game world.
  • The other? 7th Sea, by Alderac Entertainment Group. You know how swashbuckler films go?  Yeah, it’s like that.  This is more playing-nostalgia than writing-nostalgia; I was in a couple of absolutely awesome campaigns there, and I wouldn’t mind AEG updating the game to the new edition.

What about you folks? Remember: many things are possible, now.  Many, many things.

Hmm. GUMSHOE One-2-One RPG rules.

Well, THIS looks interesting:

…although I didn’t come to that conclusion until I saw this bit at the main page:

Can’t find an entire game group who can play when you can?
Want an intense head-to-head gaming experience?
Play face to face.
Or take advantage of its superb fit with virtual tabletops to play online.

Bolding mine. Yeah, that sounds like it’d be a handy tool to have. I look forward to seeing the published version.

Donna Edwards (D CAND, MD-SEN PRI) plots the conquest of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

Presumably.

conquest

As Virginia Virtucon notes: “Whoops.” Although, ironically? …It makes a certain amount of strategic sense, when you look at the map.

maryland

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