Quilleron is my second-ever character for D&D 4E (Field General Zhoran, a dwarven warlord, was my first) and the first I was able to run as a player. He was designed as a giant-killer for my gaming group’s Revenge of the Giants campaign. You can read more about my thoughts on returning to D&D 4E … Read more
The Innsmouth Horror expansion for Arkham Horror — my Birthday/Christmas present from my family — arrived today. It’s taken up its place of honor underneath the Greek Tree, where it will remain until Saturday, Dec. 26 when the Blackrazors convene to repel the Deep One invasion that threatens to rock New England. Naturally, we intend … Read more
My gaming group recently returned to D&D 4th Edition with a megashot of the Revenge of the Giants supermodule. I talk about our experiences with Wizards of the Coast’s homage to the original 1st Edition Against the Giants tournament modules on Episode #121 of The Tome Podcast. I’m joined by Quinn Murphy of the excellent … Read more
Looking for ideas for the geek on your Christmas List? Are you a geek looking for ideas about what to ask for? Nuketown has you covered (albiet, a bit late in the shopping cycle but hey, there’s still nearly two weeks until Christmas). Two quick notes: 1) all of the items on this list link … Read more
Giants stalk the land, threatening one of the few flickering lights of civilization. Someone needs to deal with the threat … and it turns out that’s us. My gaming group is returning to Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition with a megashot of Revenge of the Giants, the new super module from Wizards of the Coast. … Read more
The Blackrazor Guild — my local gaming group — has had a web site since 1997. It’s gone through many iterations over that time, usually in tandem with some project I needed to research at work (being a gamer means never wanting for large reams of test data for web apps).
The site’s known as The Griffin’s Crier, and for the longest time it was the archive for our Dungeons & Dragons campaign. However, over the last few years our group’s changed. Our primary campaign’s now Star Wars, half the group is blogging, and we’ve created a small galaxy of spin-off sites supporting our different efforts.
The GriffCrier needs to reflect these changes. To that end, I’m redesigning the site using Drupal. The new site will serve as a gathering point for our various interests; it will include campaign and group news, links to the latest blog posts from group members (using the Feed API and Views modules), and serve as a jumping off point to our various wikis, web sites, and forums.
The Gates of Hell [pdf] is a one-shot scenario for the Battlestar Galactica Role-playing Game by Margaret Weis Games. I wrote it for my gaming group’s playtest of the game, which I used as the basis for my subsequent reviews at SCIFI.com and Nuketown. Since that playtest ran, a number of people have asked me for … Read more
After a few years away, the Blackazor Guild and I returned to MEPACon last weekend, our local gaming convention held near Scranton, Pa. every spring and fall. We used to be regulars at the local convention scene, but over the last few years we been running our own homegrown Nuke(m)Con instead. We decided to return … Read more
The Ruins of New York is a scenario for The Day After Ragnarok, a campaign setting by Ken Hite published by Atomic Overmind Press and written for the Savage Worlds role-playing game. This scenario was run at MEPACon Fall 2009. You can read my playtest notes and learn more about the adventure through my Week … Read more
Major Simon Cartwright is a globetrotting spy who’s traveled to all the surviving major cities in the world … as well as most of the ruined ones. He’s a debonair spy, one who revels in the glamorous aspects of the world of espionage: fast cars, high stake gambling and beautiful women. At the same time … Read more