Story of the Year So Far - the OGL Thing
Well WOTC has managed to stir up a whole lot of people without really trying. Details can be found here.I see the OGL as nothing but a great thing that gave us tons of material for D&D and far...
View ArticleThe First 2023 RPG Challenge - Scheduling!
Similar to last year I don't have a lot of hard, set goals for this year. Last year was interrupted by the big move but this year should be steady - I do not need to do that again! - and is mainly...
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ENWorld's Most-Anticipated RPGs list is out and is a little more interesting to me than last year at least. Let me give them some individual comments:10 - The Monty Python RPG - this seems incredibly...
View Article40K Friday - Looking Ahead to the Year Ahead
Well it should be an interesting year. The last of the 9th edition codexes are due out soon - that would be the plainclothes edition of the Imperial Guard (I picked up the fancy horse edition already)...
View ArticleMem-ish Monday
Considering playing a necromancer in a friend's new Dragonlance campaign - black robes are contributing members of society and all that, right?" So it seemed relevant ...
View ArticleInteresting Times
One of the side effects of the OGL Hubbub has been the explosion of "there are other games like D&D that are not D&D" discussions online. Forums, blogs, YouTube ... I've seen a bunch of them...
View ArticleThe New Star Wars Campaign
Well I mentioned something about Star Wars a while back and that did turn into something though not quite what I was thinking at the time. Given our other schedule issues we've restructured things and...
View ArticleInteresting Times - Part 2
As more came out about the OGL situation and various responses to it I thought most of it was pretty encouraging including WOTC's final back-down on the whole thing. A bad decision was made, the...
View ArticleThat New Marvel RPG - August 2023
I posted about it last year, what I thought would be the first of several, and then honestly I just ran out of gas. The more I looked at it the more it looked like "work" instead of fun and that's a...
View ArticleWhat's Going On in February
In recent weeks I've managed to run two sessions of FFG Star Wars and two sessions of Deadlands. It feels good to be back on track. The Deadlands campaign has now hit 19 sessions and this weekend will...
View Article40K Friday - The Coming Thing
I've been working on RPG stuff more lately than miniatures. A big chunk of the Necrons are done so the urgency is a little less at the moment. The hot topics right now are boarding actions, Arks of...
View ArticlePlanning the Third Game
It has been quite a while since I've been in this position and I'm happy enough with it to write another post about it. So Deadlands is on 1st and 4th weekends and is back on track. 2nd weekends are...
View ArticleSuperhero RPG Roundup Part 1 - Marvel-ish
I went down the rabbit hole these past few weeks to figure out which supers game I was going to run for the group. As is typical for me I went way overboard but it was a good excuse to see if there...
View ArticleFollow Up - Some Old-School Marvel Resources
As a follow up to yesterday's post here are some links to some great support sites: First up is the granddaddy of them all Classic Marvel Forever. This site has been around for years and was the...
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