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Author: Ken Newquist

Star Trek game cards laid out on a blue/black starscape.

Blogworthy: Conclusions, Star Trek Card Game, Grand Pyramid, Spelljammer, Floorplan Generator

October 13, 2018 Ken Newquist Blog, Blogworthy, Games, Role-Playing Games

A Satisfying Conclusion: Gnome Stew looks at strategies for ending your RPG games, be they convention one-shots or multi-year campaigns. How a Star Trek card game quietly continues, 10 years after its official end: I played a few rounds of the Star Trek[…]

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A close-up of Kate Bishop, the other Hawkeye. She's wearing purple sunglasses and the fins of her signature arrows appear to her left.

Top of the Pile: Cable, Kate Bishop, Renew Your Vows

October 10, 2018 Ken Newquist Books & Print, Top of the Pile

When I started my bullet journal, one of my habit tracking goals to read a comic book a day. Over the summer I stuck to that goal, reading a comic book almost every day. I made steady progress on my pile[…]

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Bunnies and Burrows, 3rd Edition Kickstarter

October 3, 2018 Ken Newquist Game News, Games, Role-Playing Games

Geeks of a certain age remember the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams, which told the story of a desperate band of rabbits fleeing their doomed warren. Geeks of perhaps a slightly younger age remember the movie based on the book …[…]

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A close up of several Waterdeep-centric role-playing game books.

Game Day: Delving into Waterdeep

October 2, 2018 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

My Waterdeep: Dragon Heist campaign kicks off in October. Anyone who’s played Dungeons & Dragons for any length of time has likely heard of Waterdeep, the famous “City of Splendors” in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. The nearby megadungeon of Undermountain is equally legendary. Even the[…]

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Spellcrash: The Star’s End System

September 23, 2018 Ken Newquist Projects, Spellcrash

Spellcrash is a gonzo Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting I’m building featuring dying gods, trapped demons, impossible worlds and the most bizarre monsters the game’s ever known. It’s built around the cursed star system of Star’s End, which unerringly draws the lost and insane[…]

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A screenshot of my macOS desktop. The default "high sierra" desktop image appears in the background.

Essential Apps for the Mac, 2018 Edition

September 19, 2018 Ken Newquist Blog, Productivity, Tech Tips, Technology

My work MacBook Pro needed to go back to the mothership for repairs, so I’m working with a loaner Mac for the next week or two. It’s a minor inconvenience, but it does remind me what my essential apps for[…]

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A cloaked figure holds a gauntlet before his face, while a rogues gallery of heroes looks on from behind.

Game Day: Lunchtime Gaming Revisited

September 9, 2018 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

The Gamer Working Group, my lunchtime gaming crew, is restarting this month with Waterdeep: Dragon Heist (Amazon), Wizards of the Coast’s new urban adventure set in the City of Splendors. It’s my first full-time campaign set in the Forgotten Realms,[…]

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A coffee cup featuring the X-men appears on a green counter top.

Blogworthy: Sane Mornings, Tachyon Rockets, Library Maps, Player Help, Random Tables, Ulaa Battles

September 8, 2018 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Blogworthy, Games, Role-Playing Games

Blogworthy is a regular column dedicated to blog posts that I’ve read and enjoyed. It’s a direct outcome of my RPG Blogs Reading List on Feedly. How I Keep My Mornings Sane: Berin Kinsman talks about his electronics-free, relaxing morning[…]

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A cloaked figure holds a gauntlet before his face, while a rogues gallery of heroes looks on from behind.

Game Day: Autumn 2018 Shopping List

September 3, 2018 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

There’s a lot of cool role-playing game material coming out this autumn. I find myself flitting from product to product, excited at the prospect of picking a new game, then realizing that my budget can only support so many purchases.[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – Share why you participate in RPG-A-DAY

August 31, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

There were a couple of reasons. Re-establish a writing routine: New content’s been spotty on Nuketown for the last couple of months. A big reason for my participation was getting back into the groove of writing every day. I don’t know if I’ll[…]

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About Nuketown

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.

Radiating from Easton, Pa.

Recent Posts

  • Endlessly Tweaking the Morning Routine February 9, 2019
  • Off the Bookshelf: The Prefect, Big Ships. Things from the Flood February 6, 2019
  • Game Day: Embrace the Megadungeon February 3, 2019
  • Blogworthy – Spell Names, Failing Spectacularly, Organizing D&D, Savage Star Frontiers February 1, 2019
  • Top of the Pile: Uncanny X-Men, Spider-Verse, Darth Vader January 30, 2019

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