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Tag: Planetorn

Role-playing book covers. Left to right: Numenera, Dragon Age, Set 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Savage Worlds, Day After Ragnarok

Game Day: Ten Years Later

December 17, 2017 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

While revisiting the past as part of November’s RPG Carnival, I realized that Nuketown’s Game Day column debuted February 2007. I was stunned to realize I’d been writing it for over a decade, and that I’d written 110 entries in the series. That[…]

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Plastic miniatures of the frog-like monsters known as slaadi stand on a battlemap. In the background can be seen several figures representing player characters.

Nuke(m)Con 2016

February 12, 2017 Ken Newquist Blog, Events, Games, Role-Playing Games

Nuke(m)Con. It’s my gaming group’s homegrown convention which was first held in 2004 as an alternative to going to GenCon. It’s schedule was never formally defined, but for a while we had an every-other-year schedule going with conventions in 2006,[…]

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Game Day: Our Last 4th Edition Game

August 29, 2008 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

Today is the last day of our D&D 4th Edition playtest campaign. After adventuring across two Alternative Material Planes and Sigil, City of Doors, we’ve decided to leave the game with a bang. We’ve advanced our heroes from 2nd to 9th[…]

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Game Day: Halfway through the D&D 4E Playtest Campaign

July 25, 2008 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Playtest, Role-Playing Games

We’re about halfway through our Planetorn play-test campaign, with the fourth session happening today, and perhaps another three or four to go before it runs its course. This milestone has me reflecting on where the campaign’s been, where it’s going,[…]

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Playtesting D&D 4E Skill Challenges

July 22, 2008 Ken Newquist Games, Playtest, Role-Playing Games

D&D 4th Edition — particularly the Player’s Handbook — taken a lot of criticism for being 99% crunch, and 1% fluff. It’s also taken hits for the gutting of many of the role-playing aspects from earlier editions, including skills like[…]

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Game Day: Fueling the D&D 4E Storm with Planetorn

July 3, 2008 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

After a week’s hiatus so I could play with the kids on an island, our Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition playtest campaign gets back underway tonight. The campaign’s officially moved to “active” status, and now has its own campaign home[…]

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Game Day: The D&D 4th Edition Campaign Launches

June 20, 2008 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

Today’s the official start of our Dungeons & Dragons 4th mini-campaign, Planetorn. It’s our testbed for 4th edition, and I expect the campaign to run about five to eight sessions, or until the end of the summer, which ever comes[…]

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D&D 4E Annotated Playtest: Goblin Smackdown

June 19, 2008 Ken Newquist Games, Playtest, Role-Playing Games

My gaming group held our first 4th edition playtest this week, pitting a group of first-level characters against a wandering band of goblins. The battle took place among a couple of low hills, with the adventurers surprising a band of[…]

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My First D&D 4E Character: Field General Zhoran

June 6, 2008 Ken Newquist Game Theory, Games, Role-Playing Games

D&D 4E is upon us … and I’ve created my first character for the game. If I’ve learned one thing about the game in doing this, it’s that the 4E’s mechanics don’t fit easily into the old fantasy molds. To[…]

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Planetorn: A Big, Hairy, Audacious Campaign

June 7, 2007 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

A while back at My Play,  Gerald Cameron proposed the idea of the “BHAC” (Big, Hairy, Audacious Campaign), the sort of campaign that’s earth-trembling huge its shear audacity and (I’m assuming) its variance from the norm. He throws out one[…]

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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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