So, Simon Rogers over at Pelgrane Press did a nice thing: he sent me an early draft of Mutant City Blues, an upcoming GUMSHOE game. The idea (floated to him by the inestimable Fred Hicks, of Evil Hat fame) is for me to take a look at it, give it … Continue reading
Last Friday I got my copies of D&D 4E from Imagine Games. On Saturday, I ran several sessions of the Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day adventure, Into the Shadowhaunt. On Sunday, I rested and finished reading the rules. First off, I want to thank Pedro and Wendy at Imagine … Continue reading
Next Saturday is Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day, the official launch of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. For the past two weekends, I’ve been spending my Saturdays at Imagine Games and Hobbies here in Winnipeg, running demos from Keep on the Shadowfell and answering what questions I can about … Continue reading
Again, I digress into the personal. It’s my blog; I’ll write what I want. My friend Michael completed his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. This is a pilgrimage route that has been actively used since the middle ages, and he took it into his head to walk the bloody thing. … Continue reading
Last night I got together a few folks from my regular gaming group to run through the first few bits of Keep on the Shadowfell in preparation for running demos today. We had fun; the new system works nicely, the fights were pretty interesting, and people liked the things their … Continue reading
I’ve read through Keep on the Shadowfell now, and I want to talk a little about it. I’m going to do my best to avoid any spoilers, so this should be safe for everyone to read. Overall, I think it’s a pretty good introductory adventure. It seems to cover pretty … Continue reading
Check out this link. So, yeah, I’m going to be doing D&D 4E demos at Imagine Games and Hobbies over the next three Saturdays. For the first two, I’m going to be running excerpts from Keep on the Shadowfell, the first 4th Edition adventure, which goes on sale Tuesday, May … Continue reading
Yeah, they all died. **WARNING** This post is contains spoilers for The Brockford House, a scenario that I pulled out of the 4th Edition Call of Cthulhu rulebook. To fill out the adventure, I created some investigation that the characters could do before heading to the house. This included a … Continue reading
Tomorrow night, I’m running a Call of Cthulhu one-shot for a group of friends. It’s going to be interesting; I’ve got four or five people coming to play, and only the tentative fifth player has any deep experience with the game. Two of the others have played a bit, one … Continue reading
So, what do you do if you want to make sure that your players produce a little bit of character background? I want my players’ characters to be tied into the game world. I want them to have home towns, family, and reasons for doing what they do. It gives … Continue reading
