Role-Playing

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A few weeks ago, I had a bit of a strange game night. If you’re not into the RPG scene at all, you may not be aware that there’s a “movement” (which is a really pretentious word to use, but I can’t think of anything better right now) to get back to the basics. I mean, literally, to play old-school “Basic” Dungeons & Dragons (or some similar clone of it) like many of us did “back in the day”, where you roll 3d6 in order for your abilities, take rolls as they come with no fudging or narrative trickery, and often die a lot as a result…

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This past weekend was (arguably) my biggest gaming weekend of the year, MACE. I’ve been going for 9 years now, and had some really high hopes that this might possibly be the best year ever considering how many friends (new and old) were going to be there. In the end, my expectations were probably a little unreasonably high, but despite some disappointment here and there, I still had a really great time…

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Over a month ago now (on July 23), my good buddy Tom had several of us over to his house with the specific intention of playing a few of the newer “indie”/storygame RPG’s. There was an aggressive schedule planned with 3 time slots for games and sign-ups and all, but in the end, people were late and games ran long, and it didn’t turn out quite like we had hoped. But I did get in at least one really great session, as well as some filler boardgames as well…

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Well, here it is again, the day of game night, and I find myself still trying to finish up the report from last week’s game night…

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TomG once again opened his house to me and a gaggle of other gamers on the Saturday before last. It was another in the Gameathonapocaloozafestacon series, this time with the theme of “Big Ole’ Game Day”, focused on some of the longer games that we may not be able to get to the table as often as we’d like…

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This past weekend was the date of my usual gaming high point of the year, MACE…

The last time we played Diaspora , I floated the idea of possibly getting together over Skype to play sometime.  With my dwindling free time and the prospect of being tied to […]