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April 7, 2009
I’m thinking not. I have no beef with Fourth Edition Dungeons & Dragons. I don’t own it, mind you, but I’ve read through parts. Two things turned me off: how class-based magic is handled and the requirement for minis. Having magic Read more…
April 1, 2009
A kung-fu fightin’, counter-terrorist monk–doesn’t that sound like an awesome character for any modern RPG campaign? It’s like someone took the Monk class from D&D (well, pre-4e D&D, ’cause the 4 don’t have the Monk) and just jammed it into Read more…
March 29, 2009
I had four players in my Viking True20 campaign. Things were chugging along well. We had one player who had a lot of scheduling issues, but we tried to work around them. Then one player moved to BC for a job. Hated Read more…
February 4, 2009
For those of you who have been reading my campaign journal over at Sword’s Edge Publishing, you know a little something about the Viking campaign I’m running for my RPG group in Ottawa. I decided I wanted to do an actual play, and Read more…
August 24, 2008
Originally published on my blog. Though I spoke to a few publishers at GenCon, the only ones to provide review copies were the publishers with whom I didn’t do interviews. I find that really odd. Two of the three interviews Read more…
August 20, 2008
Just when you thought it was safe to go to Indianapolis . . . oh, wait, it is safe now, since the Accidental Survivors have left the building. And by building I mean the convention centre which hosted GenCon. But Read more…
July 28, 2008
I had started work on designing an RPG over at the ForgedRPG forums. Things got stalled, but the discussion about the Accidental Survivors RPG got me thinking again. One of the benefits of that discussion was trying to focus on Read more…
July 27, 2008
I posted a “Lessons Learned” post over at my blog regarding last night’s “the Beast of Namgakksan” game I ran at Go-Play Ottawa. This test drive is just going to make it stronger for GenCon.
July 10, 2008
So it’s been announced on the Go-Play Ottawa website that the mini-con is on for July 26th from noon to 9 PM. If you are in the Ottawa area, go check out the info and plan to attend. You’ve seen Read more…
June 19, 2008
Hey all There is the possibility that Sword’s Edge will have someone at Gencon doing some reporting for us. Fingers crossed that things go through. I’ll let you know as soon as I know.