Three weeks since the gush-a-thon that was my 2015 can’t-wait-to-play list, and yet again I’m selling my soul to the Man. This time though, instead of spouting about games we can only speculate about, I’ve decided to be a bit more practical, and point towards future RPGs that you can support right now on Kickstarter. Continue reading
Gumshoe
Diceless GMing in Gumshoe
A few weeks back I started running a short Gaean Reach campaign. I’m still playing in a friend’s second Trail of Cthulhu game, and have previously run a Night’s Black Agents campaign and one-offs for Mutant City Blues.
From the above description, it’s no surprise that I am a fan of Robin D Laws’ Gumshoe system, the engine that powers all four of those games. However, playing so much Gumshoe also means knowing it well enough to recognise its limitations. Continue reading
All Aboard the Hype Train: 2015 RPG Releases
Due to some difficult personal stuff I neglected this blog entirely last month, to the confused dismay of absolutely no-one. Now that things have started to settle, for better and worse, I’ve been thinking about the future – roleplaying games included. Continue reading
GenCon: Day Two Overview
Now at the halfway point for GenCon and starting to understand how this convention thing works. Today was a day of many seminars, but this was actually the relaxed version, once I realised yesterday that doing everything back-to-back just wasn’t going to work. Here’s what I settled for: Continue reading
Roll Plus Hot 