Wilderness of Mirrors by John Wick 17 pages MSRP: $5.00 Buy it from Indie Press Revolution A few years ago I ran a short-lived Spycraft 1.0 PBEM campaign. It barely made it out of the briefing stage, ultimately succumbing to the asynchronous maladies that doom most play-by-email games. The campaign lived on in the back … Read more
Game Master’s Day is one of those great ideas that never quite seems to get enough love. It’s held on March 4th (“March Fourth for Game Master’s Day”), which means this is the first year I’ve actually had a post up about it on the day it was happening. The idea is that today’s the … Read more
The Xbox Live version of Ticket to Ride is a faithful port of the popular board game, recreating the train-themed game on Microsoft’s game console. The game board features a map of the continental United States with its major cities connected by different colored train routes. Players draw different colored tickets from a deck each … Read more
Another week, another game of Star Wars. The adventure rolls on with a special flashback episode. Last week, our band of heroes learned of 32 Belasco Division E-company (aka the Early Birds), an Old Republic Army advance assault unit that went missing on Toprawa during the Great Sith War. This week, we’ll be playing soldiers … Read more
We played our first Star Wars game since December on Friday. Prepping the session had me digging through my various web resources looking for inspiration (and new entries for the campaign blog). They’re a useful collection of tools for anyone running a Star Wars/scifi game, so I thought I’d share them. Star Wars Galaxies at … Read more
War. War never changes. But thankfully, it does gets upgrades. Fallout 3’s all about those upgrades, presenting the best damn post-apocalyptic America this side of Thunderdome. Just as in the first Fallout from the late 90s, you stumble out of a subterranean Vault and blink at the toxic wasteland. Only now it’s rendered in millions … Read more
I don’t know if it’s an awareness thing because my group started playing Star Wars, but there seem to be a lot of science fiction games being released over the last year or so, and particularly the last few months. Case in point: over the last two weeks there have been reviews of Slipstream, Imperium … Read more
Never, ever fly a TIE Fighter. That’s the most important thing we learned during our initial playtest of the Star Wars: Saga Edition combat rules as our squadron of three TIE fighters was torn to pieces by an X-Wing and the Old Republic-era S-250 Chela starfighter. It’s as it should be — Imperial propaganda aside, … Read more
I typically don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but since my Dire Liege has asked for some, I find myself inclined to oblige him. Specifically, Berin Kinsman at UncleBear.com is leading January’s RPG Blog Carnival, which is delving into “New Year’s Gaming Goals and Resolutions”. (Internet Archive) So here we go. I resolve to: Run an … Read more
The biggest box under the Geek Tree this year belonged to Arkham Horror, a board game I’ve wanted ever since my friend (and fellow Blackrazor) Lance got it a few years back. We cracked it open for Friday’s Game Day; there were only three of us to face the horrors of Shub-Niggurath because of the … Read more