A few weeks ago, I posted this on Twitter “Old/New/OSR… I’m sick of this. Full-Spectrum Gaming for me please. Sword & Wizardry, D&D4e AND Burning Wheel. You DM it, I’ll play it.” To say that I’m sick and tired of online geek debates about one true wayism is an understatement.
Become Emotional
The psychology of desire and attachment defines our lives in countless ways. This fact is true even in the roleplaying games. Every character you play is an extension of you and the desires you want to fulfill by playing. More elusive, though, is real attachment–emotional connection–to a game’s goings on.
Festivities!
Holidays and festive seasons are apart of everyone’s lives, we look forward to those special times of the year where we can spend time with our friends and loved ones, relaxing and forgetting about our troubles, even for a small time. Festivals and celebrations can also play a special part in any RPG campaign, they can provide an interesting change of pace to the normal town and city experience for the players and DM. Being Good Friday, I have decided to take some of the more commonly known holidays and festivals of our world and twist them into festivals suitable for a RPG campaign world, I would love to see your own ideas for RPG festivals in the comments.
Mailbag 1 – Character Contortion
Here’s the first question from the mailbag. Jon Hixson asks: “How do you deal with players new to 4e who want to run characters that the system doesn’t support?”
Nico and Rory’s Quest: Meeting the Ice Titan
In which Chatty starts a promising Sword and Wizardy adventure with both his kids. Includes Titans, Druids, Badgers, Horseshoes and jobless super heroes.
Lost Badgers and Kid Guards
In which Chatty DM comes out of the Full-Spectrum gaming closet and announces great news for Burning Wheel/Mouse Guard fans.
Exclusive Preview: Alliance 2011 Catalog
Through our sources, we’ve managed to obtain a copy of the Alliance Games distributor catalog for the coming year. This catalog is what game retailers use to decide what to order for their store to carry, and we are fortunate enough to get a peek at what the next year in games holds. Here are a few that caught our eye, along with their descriptions from the publishers.
PLAY D&D NOW, MY LORD
One of the hottest new games out on the web today is Evony. I need not go into how it is amazing. It pretty much speaks volumes about itself. Truthfully, I’m not really sure why anyone would play anything but Evony. Just in case you have not ascended to the next level of gaming, I bring to you several ways you can bring a little of the light and goodness that is Evony to your D&D game until you decide to catch up with the rest of humanity.
What Does Not Kill You
When I was sitting in my room, working out the battles, it all seemed so easy, so clean, so antiseptic. The party needed so many thousand experience points, so I divided that amount by the number of encounters remaining, spent my budget to buy the monsters, and then we’ll all roll initiative. Somewhere in all that preparation, I forgot about evaluating for fun.
We Are the Champions: DM Challenge at Pax East 2010
As you may have heard by now, I won the DM’s Challenge, put together by WotC on the Saturday of Pax. For weeks, since it was announced, ChattyDM and I have been trash talking and hyping each other up about the event. For a while, I was worried that the event wouldn’t run due to lack of participants. Boy, was I wrong.
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