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Category: Projects

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#RPGaDay2018: What art inspires your game?

August 18, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

It varies greatly based on the game we are playing and the campaign I’m running. Typically at the start of a campaign I’ll set out to find art that either matches my vision or helps inspire me. This is particularly[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – Describe the best compliment you’ve had while gaming

August 17, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

“Good game.” I can’t point to one particular compliment that stands out from all the others, but any time we have a great session and someone goes out of their way to say “good game”, I appreciate it. A great[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – Describe your plans for your next game

August 16, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

I’m contemplating a return to lunchtime gaming. It’s been on hiatus for quite a while do to an overwhelming lack of time, but I miss it and so do the rest of the Gamer Working Group. As a brief re-cap, the[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – Describe a tricky RPG experience that you enjoyed

August 15, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

I struggled with this one until I read the earlier iteration in the originating blog post: “Which RPGs do you enjoy running even if they are difficult for you?” Two games immediately come to mind. The first is Dungeon World, which I[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – Describe a failure that became amazing

August 14, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

It’s been an exceedingly long day at work and home, so to avoid falling behind on #RPGaDay2018, I’m going to point to a blog post I wrote about the life and times of the Aeon Harrier, one of the signature starships from[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – Describe how your play has evolved

August 13, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

As a group we’ve become more tolerant of non-standard character concepts, especially when it comes to the World of Greyhawk. When our Dungeons & Dragons campaign started 20 years ago, we were diehard devotees of Greyhawk canon (there is a reason, after all,[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – Wildest character concept?

August 12, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

There was once a Blackrazor redshirt named Zilanderan. A strange man, Zilanderan claimed to be part of a larger, near-infinite multiverse of alternate realities. He’d excitedly talk about how this multiverse interacted with this, the Prime Material Plane, boring his[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay 2018 – Wildest character name?

August 11, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

It’s a toss up between Forceful Truth and Zilanderan … but I want to write about Zilanderan for “Wildest Character Concept” for Day 12 so Forceful Truth it is. A few years ago another player in my lunchtime gaming group[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay 2018 – How has gaming changed you?

August 10, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

Gaming increased my confidence, made me more articulate, taught me how to lead small groups, and increased my organization skills. As a geek in middle school and high school, my self-confidence was low. I had a hard time meeting new[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay 2018 – How has a game surprised you?

August 9, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

I played the best convention game of my life at GenCon 2000. It was a multi-round RPGA event called “Barbarian Lives”. It used the newly-released Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rules to tell a soap opera-inspired tale of romance, heartbreak,[…]

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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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