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Category: First Impressions

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Game Day: Blades in the Dark

February 18, 2018 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

Blades in the Dark is a fantasy role-playing game in which characters take on the roles of thieves in the night, planning capers and trying to survive in a ghost-haunted, ever-dark industrial city. Descended from Powered by the Apocalypse, authored by[…]

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Lightning crackles in the background as a beholder menaces the viewer.

Thoughts on Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

December 10, 2014 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Games, Role-Playing Games

I played D&D at GenCon, got in a few play tests with my regular group, and bought the three corebooks: the Players Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master’s Guide. As I write this, my Sunday gaming group is playing D&D again for the first time since 2008. My lunchtime group is playing it.

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A crystal-like monolith hovers over a river valley.

Game Day: Numenera Likes and Dislikes

December 1, 2013 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Playtest, Role-Playing Games

I’ve played through the first Numenra adventure as a player with my Sunday group, and we’ve just launched into our second full-blown adventure. Meanwhile I’m prepping to run the same introductory adventure for my lunchtime group. I’ve played Numenera enough to know I like it … but I don’t love it.

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A sealed dome with strange alien structures inside it towers over a nearby town.

Game Day: Dawn Over Numenera

August 12, 2013 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

With our Second Darkness campaign on hiatus for a week my gaming group decided to try out Numenera, Monte Cook’s new game of science fantasy set 1 billion years in the future. Numenera is one of the lead contenders for our next RPG campaign, with three members of the group participating in the Kickstarter and another pre-ordering the core rule book.

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An elven archer, dwarven warrior, and human mage fight off dark spawn.

Unboxing Dragon Age RPG Set #1

February 8, 2011 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Games, Role-Playing Games

The Dragon Age RPG intrigues me. With a lightweight rules system, mana pool-based magic, and a killer background setting, it seems like the sort of game that could help pull me back into fantasy role-playing. After spending a night learning[…]

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First Impressions: Innsmouth Horror Expansion

December 30, 2009 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Games

The Innsmouth Horror expansion for Arkham Horror showed up under the Geek Tree this holiday season, and the day after Christmas some friends and I broke it out for a Saturday afternoon horrorfest. It’s an impressive expansion. Unlike our last expansion, The[…]

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Initial Thoughts about HackMaster Basic

July 22, 2009 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Games, Role-Playing Games

At Origins 2009 I had the pleasure of playing in an Introduction to HackMaster Basic session run by Steve Johansson, one of the designers (Dave Kenzer, another designer, was running the other table). Full disclosure: I’m a staff writer for[…]

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And in my 37th Year I Conquered the Inner Sphere

December 17, 2008 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Games

It’s my birthday today, and I’ve been having fun playing with my toys, foremost of which is the Classic Battletech Introductory Box Set that my sister Kristen and her husband got me. The box set has led to something of[…]

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Various scenes from the Star Wars movies cover a game master screen. In front of the screen is a small ceramic statue; behind it are several Star Wars books.

Star Wars: Saga Edition – Annotated Playtest #1

October 22, 2008 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Games, Role-Playing Games

Our Star Wars: Saga Edition campaign kicked off on Friday with our first full-fledged Knights of the Old Republic session. Since my Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Annotated Playtest went over so well  I decided to do the same for[…]

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First Impressions of D&D 4th Edition

June 17, 2008 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Games, Role-Playing Games

Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition is upon us. I’ve spent last two weeks or so readying through the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition core rule books, and my gaming group had our first character creation session two weeks ago. We’d[…]

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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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