Tag: Gaming
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Actual Play: Sentinel Comics RPG
The Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game (SCRPG) has been on my “get it to the table” list for a while. I got it to the table!
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Actual Play: Trouble For Hire
I recently played Kevin J. Allen’s game Trouble For Hire at an online con. I’d never played anything quite like it, but I also felt exactly like its target audience.
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The 2024 Bloggies!
I am NOT nominated for a Bloggy, but if you’d like to read some good posts by smart people you can find them all here: https://sachagoat.blot.im/bloggies-2024-commence
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Playing White Line Nightmare
My local group wrapped a four-session mini-campaign of White Line Nightmare, my game of outlaws in an apocryphal 1970s retrofuture. We hit some speedbumps but overall each session was fun and my players’ feedback was constructive and validating.
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Diving Into a New Project
I’ve been bit by the game design bug again. Helldivers + 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars + AGON = VATBORN TO KILL, a Paragon System game.
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Pillars of Action: Scatter Terrain Columns
The trusty column or pillar is a time-honored companion in any shootout, and a common sight in dungeons and temples from galaxies far, far, away to forgotten ruins deep beneath the earth. Here’s how I made a bunch of pillars to use as scatter terrain!
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Little Boxes Made of Ticky Tacky
As it turns out, boxes are everywhere. Let’s use the power of boxes for gaming – and storage!
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A/B Testing
I’m testing this shootout minigame for White Line Nightmare. Currently I’m running the same starting scenario through that minigame as well as Savage Worlds, which is a perennial favorite of my group.
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Oooh, Shiny
I’ve been busy these last few months getting distracted by a bunch of new ideas! Here’s what’s been going on: White Line Nightmare I’ve been reworking WLN’s text to hopefully be friendlier to newer gamers. I have no misconceptions that it’s a niche game of a niche hobby that I’m primarily making for myself, but
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Checklist NPCs
Often when I’m running a game, I focus on antagonist NPCs, characters who force me to think about what they’re doing and how the player characters can react to their activities. It is rare when an allied NPC gets spotlight time, which brings me to this idea of “checklist NPCs”. The NPC is associated with…
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Monster of the Week: Bad Car
My online group decided to keep going with Monster of the Week, where the weeks are fast and the monsters are furious. This mystery owes everything to The Wraith, Blacktop Wasteland, Christine, Death Proof, Ghost Rider, Fast & Furious, and my childhood obsession with cars that drove by themselves.
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