When last we left the brave time agents, they had just finished meeting Bjarni Herjolfsson at the first European settlement in continental North America. In this timeline, however, the settlement thrives and the Vikings end up taking over much of Canada and the Eastern seaboard of North America, spreading animal husbandry, shipbuilding, smallpox, and iron […]
TimeWatch: Conquest of the Americas
In my Wednesday night game this week, I took over as GM for a couple of sessions and ran TimeWatch. Opening Scene: The PCs are watching the salvage operation of an anachronistic U-boat off the coast of Canada… it’s about 1000 years old, or 960 years before it was originally sunk. The PCs feel a […]
Two Free Microgames
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about games, and reading games, and wanting to design games. A couple of years ago, Wil Wheaton issued a challenge to “just make stuff.” It was limited in scope– for one day, just make something, and then release it for others to enjoy. I make stuff all […]
Hannibal’s Triceratops
A couple of weeks ago, I ran TimeWatch for the online convention, ConTessa. ConTessa is a con organized and run by women (must be female-identified to run a game, and must run apolitical games). I had actually run into problems with the “apolitical” charter when I realized that the adventure I had started writing was […]
Feb 8: I’m running a time travel game. And you can watch!
I’m running a TimeWatch game on February 8th for the ConTessa online gaming convention. It’ll be streamed via Google hangouts, so if you want to tune in and watch it… you should. I’ll also post a writeup and video here when it’s over, of course. Fair warning– last year, I managed to have so many […]