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Category: Game Columns

Game Day – Scales of Truth

January 26, 2021 Ken Newquist Focus, Game Columns, Game Day, Games

Sometimes, you need to get a little weird … and Scales of Truth, my current lunchtime campaign, is a lot weird. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Scales of Truth is a D&D 5e-powered game that relies heavily on the tropes of[…]

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Game Day: Getting Lost in a Hexcrawl

January 3, 2021 Ken Newquist Focus, Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

My current lunchtime game is Scales of Truth, a hexcrawl set in a post-apocalyptic science-fantasy setting. Think of a mashup of Thundarr the Barbarian, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, and Mad Max: Fury Road, powered by Dungeons & Dragons. So[…]

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Game Day: Infinity Storm Retrospective

October 18, 2020 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

Infinity Storm, my Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Edition campaign, ran from mid-2007 through early 2008. Featuring eight issues (aka episodes), it’s notable for being the first superheroes game I ever ran and featuring the first in-character blog I ever wrote. A dozen years later,[…]

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Game Day: The Great Campaign Purge of 2020

October 11, 2020 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

Everyone keeps things. Some people keep a lot of things … and, as we learned from Fight Club, the stuff we own ends up owning us. While I’m far from a minimalist, I do think it’s possible to keep too much[…]

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Bullet Journals for RPGs

May 25, 2020 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Game Theory, Games, Role-Playing Games

Bullet journals are analog alternatives to printed day planners, “to-do” apps, and note-taking tools. Created by Ryder Carroll, bullet journals are a purposefully archaic approach to capturing life’s esoteric bits, from a list of today’s meetings to a quick note[…]

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Game Day: Beyond Endor

April 26, 2020 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

When Pennsylvania went to full-on “stay at home” to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, my gaming group went fully online. We put our Saltmarsh campaign on hold and launched a new Star Wars campaign using the Saga Edition[…]

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Lightning strikes down from clouds over the ocean. Darkened land can be seen tot he right.

Game Day: Weather in RPGs

January 12, 2020 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

As we head into the heart of winter, weather becomes a much bigger concern for Game Day. Bad snow stormed scuttled many a Game Day over the years, though thankfully now we can call back to Roll20 if necessary. Just[…]

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Adventurers battle an aquatic humanoid while a giant octopus attacks a sailing ship in the background.

Game Day: Setting Sail for Saltmarsh

October 6, 2019 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

My gaming group’s preferred campaign setting is the World of Greyhawk. We adventured there for years with our Blackrazor Guild campaign, but while we’ve walked (and been kicked off of) the streets of Greyhawk, battled the humanoid invaders of the Pomarj,[…]

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Game Day – Learning Roll20

July 7, 2019 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

My lunchtime Dragon Heist campaign is powered by Roll20, not because we’re playing remotely, but because we need a virtual tabletop to maintain state between sessions. With only an hour to play each week, we didn’t want to spend time setting up and[…]

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Cards representing cities, forests, mountains, fields, and other regions are laid out on a glass table.

Game Day: Two-Player Games

June 10, 2019 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

Game Days can be a fickle thing. Almost everyone in our group is middle-aged (or getting close), most of us have kids, and those kids are old enough to have Game Day-smashing activities of their own. As a result, our[…]

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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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