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Author: Ken Newquist

Map of Greyhawk

RPG A Day 2022 – Past, Present or Future? When is your favorite game set?

August 17, 2022 Ken Newquist Focus, Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2022

For this post, I’m going to substitute “game” for “campaign”. My all-time favorite campaign is also my longest-running: The Blackrazor Guild Campaign for various editions of Dungeons & Dragons. Set in the World of Greyhawk, the initial campaign kicked off in[…]

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A barbarian human holding an axe over his shoulder

RPG A Day 2022 – What would be your perfect game?

August 16, 2022 Ken Newquist Focus, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2022

For me, a perfect game isn’t about the rules or the game itself, it’s about the experience. It’s the dice and the story coming together to create a memorable experience – the sort of thing where everyone looks around the[…]

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A view of two dozen role-playing game books.

RPG A Day 2022 – Who would you like to Gamemaster for you?

August 15, 2022 Ken Newquist Focus, Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2022

My friends. As we struggle to get back to real-world gaming after the pandemic, I want to get together with all my friends who love to run games … and let them run their games!. We already did this once[…]

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Cover art for Mutant Crawl Classics

RPG a Day 2022 – Suggestion Sunday – Mutant Crawl Classics

August 14, 2022 Ken Newquist Focus, Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2022

Over the last two seasons of the @LairOfSecrets podcast, David Moore (@vandermore) and I’ve talked about a ton of games we’d like to play. A few consistently pop to the top of my list – Fate of Cthulhu, Monster of the Week, Kids on[…]

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Monster stat blocks for fiends in 2nd Edition Dungeons and Dragons

RPG A Day 2022 – How would you have changed the way you started RPGing?

August 14, 2022 Ken Newquist Focus, Games, Role-Playing Games

Well, it would have been grand if people didn’t think my friends and I were devil-worshipers, but it was the early 1980s, so that wasn’t very likely. It would also have been great to have a gaming club in elementary[…]

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Cover art for the D&D Basic rulebook and Keep on the Borderlands

RPG A Day 2022 – Why did you start role-playing?

August 14, 2022 Ken Newquist Focus, Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2022

Because it was the 1980s, and all the cool kids were doing it. Heh. No, because it was the 1980s and all the nerdy, geeky outcasts were doing it, at least until high school. That’s when most folks I know[…]

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RPG A Day 2022 – If you could live in a game setting where would it be?

August 13, 2022 Ken Newquist Focus, Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2022

Sigil, City of Doors, because from there, you can use its myriad magical portals to go anywhere in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. I thought of Sigl because my first answer was the City of Brass, the famed effreti city on the Elemental[…]

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A view of two dozen role-playing game books.

RPG A Day 2022 – When did you start game mastering?

August 12, 2022 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games

I don’t know. I have vague recollections of running (or trying to run) B2 Keep on the Borderlands in 5th or 6th grade (so … 1983? 1984?). I ran games sporadically throughout middle school and high school, but most of what[…]

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A view of two dozen role-playing game books.

RPG A Day 2022 – What was the second RPG you bought?

August 11, 2022 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2022

Star Frontiers by TSR. I got the original boxed set, the Alpha Dawn reprint, the Knight Hawks space combat expansion boxed set, and finally Zebulon’s Guide to Frontier Space (a softcover rules expansion/reboot that never went anywhere) I spent hours[…]

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A view of two dozen role-playing game books.

RPG a Day 2022 – Who introduced you to RPGs?

August 9, 2022 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2022

The easy answer, per Day 3, is my mom. She bought me the Moldvay boxed set for basic Dungeons & Dragons, which unlocked the potential of role-playing games for me. The actual answer is probably more complicated. Truth be told,[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

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Recent Posts

  • RPG A Day 2022 – Past, Present or Future? When is your favorite game set? August 17, 2022
  • RPG A Day 2022 – What would be your perfect game? August 16, 2022
  • RPG A Day 2022 – Who would you like to Gamemaster for you? August 15, 2022
  • RPG a Day 2022 – Suggestion Sunday – Mutant Crawl Classics August 14, 2022
  • RPG A Day 2022 – How would you have changed the way you started RPGing? August 14, 2022

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