Showing posts with label New School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New School. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Old D&D editions and clones - Ambition & Avarice

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I remember when I first heard of Castles & Crusades, and how the creators talked about how it fused the best of older editions with new....
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The strangeness of Fate

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I'm now a few sessions into a Fate game. It's a fantasy game, with magic and elves and all that jazz. Even though those parts makes ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Getting hurt in different games

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Since I recently played a game of FATE, I have been searching out other experiences of playing FATE, including listening to podcasts. At the...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Emergent Story - in multiple ways

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I was listening to an episode of the  The Walking Eye podcast recently. It sometimes has moments of pure brilliance, and I was hoping to ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

My problem with Fiasco

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I have read so many times, and heard on so many podcasts, that Fiasco is a great game. Having listened to some actual play, and detailed rul...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

T&T hacks - Over The Edge

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 Since Over The Edge showed up in 1992, designers  Jonathan Tweet and  Robin D Laws have designed more games, and all are very much talke...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Some impressions of Skulduggery

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A short while ago, I got an email from the excellent service Loot. That means I get some sweet deals and need to decide at once of I want to...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Why this focus on sappy tv shows?

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This is a rant. You have been warned. Have you looked at some of the games labelled as "storygames" or games about which the des...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

What I don't like about Trail of Cthulhu

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Since I just ran a game of Call of Cthulhu, including some rules and concepts from Trail of Cthulhu, I have spent some time pondering the qu...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Playing Lady Blackbird

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Last Saturday, I ran Lady Blackbird with a couple of friends. It was fun and everyone laughed a lot. Still, it was not as I had hoped it wo...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Games - narrow, broad or both?

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I was thinking the other day about something that cropped up in the comments on  Grognardia . James said he prefer broader games, which made...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Modes of old school play

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After talking to a few of my friends who are not that keen on the classic frp game setup, gaining gold and fame through spell and sword, I h...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

It's all about killing things

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Almost everyone in gaming have heard the old adage that D&D is all about killing things and taking their stuff. We might all have diffe...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Castles made of sand, stories made from threads of many colours

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A few days ago I read a very enlightening piece over on the blog Playing D&D With Pornstars. He writes about the way the "work eth...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

How to define your game as the anti-D&D, very differently

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For those of you who know about John Wick , and keep up with his designs, it's no news that his game Houses of the Blooded is intended ...
Friday, July 24, 2009

The Tyranny of the DM and the Tyranny of the Player

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We have been discussing the way the rules can help and hinder players and game masters acting like jerks over at Zach's place, RPG Blog...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

I hate AC, I really do

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For those who have been reading gaming blogs today I guess you know that there's a stirring of the teacup again. Again the storm is all...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Plot cupons? How about Whimsy Cards?

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Long ago I remember seeing a game supplement like no other. It was created by a company called Lion Rampart, which also created Ars Magica....
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Making interesting characters

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I read a good blog post today, which got me thinking about how I generate the characters I play. Our Sunday Group have been playing differ...
Monday, June 8, 2009

How We Came to Live Here - new school adventures in a southwest that never was

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Last night we had a session of a distinctly new school game. How We Came to Live Here , by Brennan Taylor. What's making this game tick...