Mishaps & Moustaches
Howdy everyone, nothing fancy today just some minor updates on my life.First off, Happy Hallowe'en to everyone! I hope you all had tons of treats and very few tricks. Wednesday would have been our...
View ArticleProlonging Death - Houserule
Character death in many combat-heavy RPGs can be inevitable. PC death at lower levels and/or in a world where you lack access to Raise Dead, Resurrection, True Resurrection, and other related spells...
View ArticleA New Hope?
All his life as he looked away to the future, to the horizon...I'm sure you all know by now of Disney buying Lucasfilm, and the news of Episode VII in 2015, so I need not go much into it. At first I...
View ArticleInteresting Times, Interesting Places
It seems recently I have become the recipient of the Chinese proverb: May you live in interesting times.Last week I talked about being the victim of theft, and it sucks to say it has once again...
View ArticleUltimatum
Last Wednesday's session, our Ravenloft adventurers had a chilling awakening their following morning: They discovered the body of Hilda, the village healer who prepared and administered a tincture...
View ArticleFFG Star Wars - First Play Impressions
So yesterday a few of us had the chance to play both Star Wars: X-Wing and Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. Here's my/our first impressions:Originally we were going run Edge of the Empire in the early...
View ArticleCountdown to New Beginnings
Well here we are already on the first day of December; I can't believe how fast November went by. I didn't get to post as much as I would have liked to, but it was a pretty hectic month running...
View ArticleSW: EotE - Range Bands and Minis
I really enjoy my Star Wars minis, and I've been trying to figure out a way to still make use of them in the cinematic-style game Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. My first attempt using them was for...
View ArticleFATE Core Kickstarter
Wow. Not even full day of existing and the kickstarter for FATE Core is at funded currently over $55,000!It's few remaining stretch goals are going to be eliminated soon, hopefully they'll make some...
View ArticleMusic To Roleplay To: Middle-Earth
In celebration of the recent theatrical release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, today's entry of Music To Roleplay To is dedicated to brave adventuring in that legendary realm of high fantasy:...
View ArticleLast Entry of 2012
Howdy all!Jerreth Esq. here with my last entry of 2012. Sorry to say it isn't the Yearly Retrospective I've been ignoring working on; I'm hoping I'll get that up sometime in January. But before the...
View ArticleGottaCon 2013 Anticipation
Happy New Year!The first post of 2013 will be mostly uninteresting I'm afraid, just me yakking about my plans for the beginning of next month.I got my tickets bought and registered for GottaCon 2013,...
View ArticleGottaCon Event Update
Huzzah! After a bit of polite prodding on the event organizers, my session of Star Wars: Edge of the Empire has finally been added to the con schedule and is now available for gamers to sign up,...
View ArticleSW:EotE Beginner Game Playtest Triumph
So today I had my playtest of the Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Beginner Game, and I must say it was a Triumph! Playing through the adventure with 3 system-new players went just barely over the four...
View Article2012 Retrospective
So I hadn't been able to spend much time working on this Retrospective as I've been busy gaming. And once I'd been free to spend time compiling it, I found it more difficult than I originally thought...
View ArticleToydarian Grabworms
Howdy All! Less than a week away from GottaCon, and I'm getting both anxious and excited! Yesterday marked our last session of my Edge of the Empire story arc that I called 'Hunt for the Grabworm'. In...
View ArticleGottaCon V
Wow! What a crazy 3 days of gaming that was! How sore and tired I am is a direct result of the sure amount of fun I had!Friday Heavy CombatOn Friday I worked my shift, then jetted off to the...
View ArticleThrilling Tales' Derange-O-Lab
On occasion, I've been known to frequent the brilliant website, Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual, to peruse their interactive series of Retro-Futuristic Pulp Sci-Fi tales.Aside from the...
View ArticleScaling Escape from Mos Shuuta for 4+ players
Howdy All,As some of you may well know, a week ago I ran the Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Beginner Game at GottaCon. The Beginner Game, as some of you may also be aware, it is designed to be played...
View ArticlePerhaps the Doctor will help us...
So this past Valentines Day I went out and picked up an RPG as a gift for my better-half, with the intention of playing it with her. We've been happily together for a number of years now, and despite...
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