Month: January 2019
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The Tightrope of Peril
I’ve been working on a roleplaying game design alongside Insomniacs that’s either going to be a Star Wars heartbreaker or some sort of pulp action game. It might end up diverging into both. What Even Is Pulp Action? Action-adventure as a genre is far too broad, but the influences I’m talking about are cornerstones of
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Dice Club
I’ve been GMing for a group of elementary school kids since last summer. Although “Dice Club” formed through the PTO’s facebook group, we didn’t make it an official school thing and just met for the first few months in the local comic shop until one of the parents offered her home for meetings. Here’s how…
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Insomniacs Playtest: Flight Crew Delta
I ran the fourth Insomniacs playtest for my online group from the Scum & Villainy game. Insomniacs is a cryoship starcrawl where you resolve crises aboard your colony ship, the Somnambulist, and explore potential worlds for the remnants of humanity. I’m happy with how this opener went and hope we can get to some away
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Save vs. Work (5e)
I run a fortnightly D&D 5e game for coworkers set in a nonsense jumbled-up mess of a campaign world kind-of-but-not-entirely-inspired by Ultraviolet Grasslands. I’m taking the same GMing approach here as I do with my local group’s Savage Rifts game – hold on loosely and don’t worry too much about continuity or geography. Last session
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Arting for Copperhead County
I have been hired for my skills of an artist! Jason Eley asked me to draw some playbook and crew items as well as some other random filler for his Forged in the Dark game of crime in the south, Copperhead County. I’m excited because CC’s a good game. I got to playtest the Blood
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The Porg Chop Express
This week my online group finished our Scum & Villainy campaign set (more or less) in the Star Wars universe. The crew of the Porg Chop Express, having stolen the Outrider out from under Dash Rendar (more like Douche Rendar am I right), proceeded to rob Prince Xizor’s sanctum during his extravagantly expensive and outrageously
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