Tabletop Gaming
Character A Week
Character A Week might be a bit too ambitious, but Character A Month means that I am unlikely to make any real progress on touching the majority of my game library… like 10 to 12 years would be my guess. I guess I’ll keep the name, and shoot for 1+ entries a month until I … Read more
Godzilla the Roleplaying Game
DW has put up the pre-launch page for the Godzilla RPG Kickstarter. It launches on 3/3, and absolutely no one who knows me will be surprised that Iām already on the notification list and planning to back it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/idwgames/godzilla-the-roleplaying-game?ref=discovery&total_hits=99&category_id=34 I spent a little time with the Learn to Play demo. The system uses cards for both resolution and its … Read more
Dundracon Game Bazaar
Assuming nothing goes wrong, I will have table at the Bazaar on Monday. Help me clear out some of my old stuff if you’re attending. I can handle cash and credit/debit. Tell me you saw it here and I’ll offer a discount. š
Character A Week: High Fantasy
I’m still working on older games, but this one is fairly obscure. High Fantasy, from Reston Publishing (Prentice-Hall), was published in 1978. I likely would have never heard of, let alone, owned it if it were not for the fact that it was published through the book trade and found its way into regular bookstores. … Read more
Gamma World follow up
My long time buddy, and All of the Above alumni, Dan (Smif) Smith did this character illustration of Thumper for me. Dan is available for commissioned art and you can find his Deviant Art page here: Smifink.
Character A Week: Top Secret
Top Secret was, to the best of my knowledge, the first dedicated espionage RPG. Others, notably the licensed James Bond 007 RPG, soon followed. Alas, neither the original Top Secret, nor the followup Top Secret S.I. are available for purchase in PDF at this time. However, there is a new version with radically different rules, … Read more
Character A Week: SPI’s DragonQuest
DragonQuest was one of the first non-D&D fantasy RPGs that we tried out in high school. It was well advertised, SPI was a well known company, and they were trying some things that weren’t exactly standard game design at the time. It was a point buy system for stats, but there was a random roll … Read more
So, A Question…
How important are the actual character sheets? So far, the games I’ve done have been relatively simple and so actual character sheets haven’t been necessary. As I move on to more complicated game systems for character generation, I’m not sure that will remain true. I have a couple of options: Hand fill out character sheet, … Read more
Hail the Traveller
Vale Greg Stafford (1948 – 2018)