Recent Comments
Category Archives: Games
Character Premise
Player characters with a premise are easier to play as distinct and deeper personas, with a story to tell in the game you are playing. A premise is a prior set of statements from which a plot develops and has … Continue reading
Posted in Cepheus, Games, Traveller
Leave a comment
Eventide
I’m having some innocent fun with Traveller setting building, just as a thought exercise and to squeeze some creative juices. This was precipitated by the acquisition of the new Cepheus Deluxe, a really wonderful version of Traveller. I talk about … Continue reading
Posted in Cepheus, Games, Mapping, Traveller
Leave a comment
Starships Riding Fire Across The Sky
Starships riding fire across the sky. Heroes and villains exchanging laser fire. Desperate spacers struggling against an alien monstrosity. Vast planetary vistas, flying cities, moonscapes, mad robots, and first encounters. In short: high-action science-fiction adventure that stimulates your sense of … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Traveller
Leave a comment
D100 like it’s 1986
I’ve had an old times blast today. Inspired by Che Webster’s Roleplay Rescue Podcast, episode 911, I have gone back to old roots and started to build a Chaosium ‘Basic Roleplaying’ game that feels right to me. I suggest 1986, … Continue reading
Posted in Games
Leave a comment
Danger in Highfort Pass
A Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition game set in Kallahn. With the eastern lands of the Kal crumbling to remorseless Kestolian pressure, Haldun, King of Thrail, has commissioned you to uncover a new threat to the north. The pass through … Continue reading
Posted in Conventions, D&D4e, Games, Mapping
Leave a comment
Homebrew Mappage Project – Kallahn
So, I have brought out my dusty old maps from 35+ years ago of my fantasy campaign world of Kallahn, originally a home for some Chivalry & Sorcery 2nd Edition. I’m not going to claim anything too innovative or amazing, … Continue reading
Posted in D&D4e, Games, Mapping, True20
Leave a comment
Back to the sort of table you can put a pint on
It was always our student house joke about Logical Positivism. You can’t doubt the existence of the table in front of you, if you can put a pint on it. It was the sort of test that we were sure … Continue reading
Posted in Conventions, Games
Leave a comment
Con4eR
A D&D 4th Edition Online Convention I seem to have a congenital need to create gaming spaces, to bring people together to play tabletop roleplaying games. There could be have been worse things. My next project is to see … Continue reading
Posted in Conventions, D&D4e, Games
Leave a comment
Ongoing Adventures and the 4eRenaissance
I am starting to get the hang of 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, and where it sits in amongst the other D&Ds and across the fantasy spectrum. It creates and manages the most engaging and intense combat encounters, where entering … Continue reading
Posted in D&D4e, Games, VTT
Leave a comment