This is obvious, right? The perfect gaming environment is at your house, but where all your gaming friends love to cook and bring food over, and one of your friends loves to do the dishes afterwards! You have a table and comfy chairs– perhaps even sofas– and you definitely have some control over the music […]
#RPGaDay 21: Favorite Setting
A couple of years ago, I got a couple of good role-players together to play a campaign. We started with Microscope, creating a setting that was, in essence, a gigantic city that trundled through a wasteland, in search of other cities. It was mechanical, a little micro-ecosystem that had been artificially created. There was magic, […]
#RPGaDay 20: Favorite Horror RPG
This honor definitely goes to Trail of Cthulhu, even though it isn’t terribly “horrific” in the sense of “you are up against something that will destroy you, no matter what.” In Trail, there’s a decent chance you can “win” against the eldritch nightmare. Nonetheless, I like to run it– I have the Ritual Pursuits demo […]
#RPGaDay 19: Favorite Supers RPG
My favorite Supers RPG to read is Stuperpowers, because it’s hilariously comedic. But I talked about that last year. This year, let’s talk about Mutants and Masterminds, or "the superhero campaign I never played." I never really get to play superhero RPGs, and I’m not sure why that is. Maybe because they’re really hard to […]
#RPGaDay 18: Favorite SF RPG
My favorite SF RPGs are probably Fate and Lady Blackburn. I already covered Lady Blackburn as my “favorite Free RPG,” so let’s talk about Fate!