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Category: Game Columns

Covers for the Fiasco and Star Wars role-playing games

Game Day: A Star Wars Fiasco

April 23, 2019 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

My weekly gaming group took a break from our regular Dungeons & Dragons campaigns to play Fiasco … in space! Fiasco (Amazon /Indie Press Revolution ) by Bully Pulpit Games is a role-playing game of ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. It’s a role-playing game for[…]

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Dungeon maps

Game Day: Embrace the Megadungeon

February 3, 2019 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

In 2008 I wrote, “Beware the Megadungeon”, a post about delving into depths of the sprawling deathtraps known as megadungeons. At the time, the Blackrazor Guild was just coming off of a prolonged — and frustrating — foray into the legendary[…]

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A close up view of blue/black dice and a tiefling warlock. In the background is an old-school style character sheet.

Game Day: Blackmoor

January 20, 2019 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

After the end of our long-running Obsidian Frontier campaign, we decided to venture to a little-explored region of Greyhawk: the Archbarony of Blackmoor. Inspired by Dave Arneson‘s legendary campaign setting of the same name (one of Dungeons & Dragons first-ever settings), Blackmoor[…]

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A close up view of dice sitting on a pair of character sheets.

Game Day: Closing the Frontier

December 18, 2018 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

After four years, 53 episodes, and over 200 hours of gaming, we closed the book on our Obsidian Frontier campaign for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Begun as one of two playtest campaigns for 5th Edition, we had so much fun with[…]

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A view of the PAX Unplugged's open gaming area.

Game Day: Pax Unplugged

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

My son and I spent the day at PAX Unplugged. Held at the Philadelphia Convention Center from Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2018, PAX Unplugged in a three-day event dedicated to offline games: card games, board games, role-playing games, their various iterations. We[…]

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The swirling clouds of Jupiter.

Visiting All Those Worlds…

December 1, 2018 Ken Newquist All These Worlds, Game Columns, Games, Projects, RPG Blog Carnival

November is done and with it, Nuketown’s first-ever turn at hosting the RPG Blog Carnival. Inspired by the “All These Worlds” line from 2010: A Space Odyssey Two, the carnival explored all manners of world-building, from new planets to undersea realms to stellar[…]

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A series of stone walls, with archways leading onward.

The Refuge of Durak

November 26, 2018 Ken Newquist All These Worlds, Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG Blog Carnival

The Refuge of Durak is a pocket dimension that served as an oasis of law for the planar explorer known as Durak the Rigid. An archmage and planar explorer, Durak held to his moral code in any situation, steadfastly embracing his ideals[…]

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A view of Saturn backlit by the sun.

All These Worlds…

October 26, 2018 Ken Newquist All These Worlds, Game Columns, Games, Project Updates, Projects, RPG Blog Carnival

Whether it’s the subterranean world beneath our feet, other planets racing through the sky, or intersections with other planes of existence, the worlds we can visit through role-playing games are infinite. The November 2018 RPG Blog Carnival hopes to capture[…]

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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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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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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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