Category: Roleplaying Games
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Working up a gameworld
I’ve been working on the setting for a Burning Wheel campaign I’m about to run and, honestly, creating the map has been just as fun all on its own. I thought I’d share some progress shots here, given that I may post a bit about the game just to get this old website moving again.…
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Night’s Black Agents, Session Three
So here we go, session three. In which: Shit. Gets. Weird. (Which was one of the more entertaining in-character scenes I’ve been party to.) It’s still the same night as we left off. The agents haven’t slept, but they’re super spy badasses. They can sleep when they’re dead. The group decides that, if they’re going…
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Night’s Black Agents, Session Two
The agents decided they wanted to know where their turncoat contact was getting his orders. All Toby could tell them was that the commands came from the bluetooth earpiece he’d been wearing. They still had it, so Elena did her thing and found out that the earpiece was set to pick up a non standard…
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And Now For Something Completely Different
I often run tabletop roleplaying games on the weekend. I just started a Night’s Black Agents game, which is a spy thriller with a supernatural conspiracy element. Since I spent last week prepping and not writing on Goyle Country, I figured I’d share a writeup of the session. It all started during the Cold…
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What a Fiasco!
Following along with the previous blog post (and almost completely ignoring the fact that I skipped one last week), I’ll be talking about what is pretty much a pure storytelling game. So far as roleplaying games go, it has almost zero dice mechanic. What it does have is actually trading dice around. You roll two…
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Storytelling and Roleplaying Games
All right, since I’m still new to this blogging thing this may ramble a bit. (And get long-winded, apparently.) I was introduced to the concept of roleplaying games in college, and I’ve loved them ever since. I’ve played a number of different systems and settings, all of which have different levels of crunch and fluff. For…