A few weeks ago, I got an email from a Leigh Walton from Top shelf productions saying they were sending me a copy of a Sword & Sorcery Graphic Novel by artist Alex Robinson ‘for my consideration’. I assume this is a nice way to say “feel free to review it on your blog”. Once […]
I cast Magic Missile!
There used to be that old animated video on the web about a group of dweebs playing D&D, I just found a ‘new’ version done with Final Fantasy sprites… Hey that Video plugin does work!
Mini-Links: Whole Wheat Bastard Boardgame Ninjas!
Ahhh it’s Friday afternoon, a snowstorm rages on Montreal and my boss just gave us the day rest of the day off… Of course, on Fridays, our lab is drenched in fresh blood samples that we can’t leave on the bench for 3 days, so while I can relax and kickback a bit, I have […]
Magic Online III Beta.
I’m too tired to write a post tonight so I’m sharing a little Magic the Gathering goodness to those who would like to play for free (I think you need to have a Magic Online 2,5 account though). Magic Online players, We’re hoping that you, along with thousands of other MOL players across the globe […]
Mini-Blog: Recent and coming changes to Blog.
I’m currently moving a few things around this blog and changing things as I grow more comfortable with it. In parallel, Graham is hacking me a new swanky theme and I’ll switch to it as soon as everything is done (and you’ll finally see the new banner). So while we wait here are a few […]
Chatty’s Review: Silvervine, Basic Challenge Mechanics
This post is part of a series that tackles the reading review of a yet unpublished RPG called Silvervine. Please note that this game is still in development, my review is part of the pre-playtest feedback. Last time I tackled Character Generation, now it’s time for the 1st (of 3) posts on the game’s Crunchy […]
Mini-Post: Shamus' new game
Yesterday, Shamus Young posted about concluding his D&D campaign and starting a new one. One of his key challenges was that everybody in his large group (8 players) wanted to play a different style/theme than the rest. D&D was chosen last time because it’s the default game that his group seems to have agreed to. […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Goodness: You, Bastard!
As promised, after having covered the Overlord trope in all (well at least some of) its RPG glory, I now want to tackle another of my favorite character tropes: The Magnificent Bastard (I’m making no reference whatever to any good friend of mine, honest!) Love him or hate him, there’s a certain type of character […]
A geek by any other name…
It’s no secret that a minor theme of this blog is all things geeky… RPGs and Dming being the main subject of my Geeky blogging. Last Friday, Math arrived home and showed his new iPod Touch to my wife Alex. Of course, she went bonkers over it and Math, laughing, came downstrais to join us, […]
DM Chronicles, Session 10: Oh My! Drows are squishy!
This series chronicles our current D&D 3.5 campaign set in my home-grown world with Ptolus added to it. We’ve just started playing a heavily-adapted version of WotC’s Expedition to the Demonwebs pits. As you may recall from last time, I had mixed feelings about the game and I had been going a bit heavily on […]
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