See parts 1 and 2 here and here. Seminars, The Tricks of the Successful 4e DM, English There’s a French expression I coined one day to describe how different my brother and I were. It goes ‘Nous sommes comme le jour et la pluie” which translates less poetically into “We are like day and […]
RPG Bloggers Network: My side of the Story
Some of you may have heard the news, my friends and I have stepped down from the RPGbloggers’ board of fake directors and we are offering to ‘hand out’ the network to the one who presents us a proposal we like best. If you didn’t know it already, last year before Gen Con, Dave Chalker, […]
Tales from Draconis, Part 2
Draconis is a Montreal Gaming convention. See part 1 here. Saturday was a big day for me, I had 2 games to GM for, 2 seminars and a game scheduled (as a player) in the evening. Saved by the Grell, English Saved by the Grell was an adventure written my John Richter based on my […]
Tales from Draconis, Part 1
Draconis is an annual Gaming Convention held in Montreal. Run by a group of dedicated gamers, the con attracts a little less than 100 people to play mostly RPGs, some board/card games and attend seminars. Montreal is a very Indie-friendly city and this year the con goers were served with some top notch guest such […]
Draconis Day#1: Swords & Wizardry
Sorry I couldn’t manage to do 5 Capsule Review, Con prep took a little longer than expected. Last night’s game of S&W was as awesome, hilarious and fun as I expected it to be. I ran Chgowiz’s exceedingly well designed adventure from the Quick-Start kit. Instead of giving you the play by play, I’ll repost […]
Capsule Review Week: Dominion
Let’s continue our week of mini reviews now shall we? Dominion What it is. Dominion is a non-collectible constructable card game where each player plays the part of an ambitious minor noble who aims at turning its modest estate into a dominion of provinces and duchies. Players play cards from their decks to generate enough […]
Capsule Review Week: Swords & Wizardry
As introduced here, I will post mini-reviews of RPGs and MMORPGs during the whole week while I prepare for Draconis, my local gaming convention. Swords & Wizardry What it is A clone of the original, 1974 version of Dungeons & Dragons (often referred to as 0th edition). It includes all the non-proprietary elements of the […]
Capsule Review Week: Intro and DDO Eberron unlimited
I’ll be spending most of the coming week preparing for Montreal’s Draconis gaming convention (where I’ll host a Dungeon Reality Show game, 2 Swords and Wizardry games and both a French and English Seminar on DMing 4e). While I initially thought I’d take the week off from Blogging, my evil backstabbing mastermind lieutenant PM mentioned […]
Champions Online: Being 13 Forever
Oh yeah, like some others, I succumbed to to the Champions Online bug. I’ll post a short review later this week but in the meantime I had to share a few screenshots of my latest PC, the 4th I made so far. And I confess that I really am nothing more than a 13 year […]
Friday Chat (Early edition): Are you a Backseat GM?
I’m posting this early since I will have limited net access tomorrow. On Friday night, I get to lay aside my Dungeon Master’s Screen, maps, stack of books and other DM paraphernalia to grab a lone piece of paper, one rule book, a set of dice, a pencil and a mini. I get to play […]
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