Tabletop games, whether roleplaying, board, card, improvisational or otherwise
What follows is a session report for the second part of the adventure included in the playtest version of Outlive Outdead, available for free download as a PDF from Happy Bishop Games and currently in an Outlive Outdead Kickstarter for full publication. You can read the first session report in… Continue reading Outlive Outdead Playtest – Session Report 2
The Gabling Domerer offers an additional variant Living for characters created for Maelstrom using The Beggars Companion. You can use this variant to expand the alternatives available for new characters, ‘developing’ characters, or designing non-player colour for your adventures. Gimmick: Fake mute, who may also fake deafness I have had frequent opportunities to… Continue reading Gabling Domerer – A Variant Beggar Living
Ah, the delights of writing up a session report. I appreciate the need to get it done as soon as possible, but now – more than a week later – I shall need to dig into recent memory. I know where we started each time and where we ended –… Continue reading Outlive Outdead – Interlude
I ran a session of Outlive Outdead last night using the adventure from the playtest materials. I distributed the pre-generated characters to the gathered players – five in total – and they opted for Julie, single mom, Alexei, ex-strip club owner, Michael, ex-local councillor, Jacob, ex-minor local league hockey player,… Continue reading Outlive Outdead Playtest – Session Report 1
I have spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks structuring content. My work focussed on writing responses to some official questions for a work project. The process meant taking the question and breaking it down into components. Then, I had to take the component parts and… Continue reading Short and Sharp
I plan to adapt Maelstrom, a game nominally associated with tales of adventure in a historic setting, to run a science fiction scenario. I noted that the many and varied occupations, or livings, in the game bear resemblance to some of the many typical career paths seen in the sci-fi… Continue reading Common Ground
Last week, I had been actively gaming again for a whole year. Almost forty, I have played more hours of roleplaying in the last 365 days than I have in almost half of my life. Not since university have I played this much, getting by in the meantime with online… Continue reading Avoiding the Familiar
Have I created this sense of dungeoneering somehow being wrong by aligning the act of entering a dungeon with the playing of certain games? I’m not sure I can take sole responsibility for it, but I think it bears consideration. I find myself hankering for a dungeon crawl, but somehow… Continue reading Foul Dungeons
In our regular games night, we played a game of Cthulhu Dark because we suffered a couple of withdrawals from the regular gang and needed something to fill the gap. While I find these intermissions frustrating when we’re in the midst of an adventure, sometimes the outcome can be just… Continue reading In a Dark, Dark Place
Anyone in the UK or with access to Channel 4’s on demand output on 4od should check out the Charlie Brooker trilogy Black Mirror. Tonight’s episode, 15 Million Merits, took a glance at star making popular TV and the potential it gives the masses to rise above the role of… Continue reading 15 Million Merits