Every other Sunday, I organize (and often run) an open, public RPG game at our local comic book shop, Avatar Comics and Games. This week, I ran Dungeon World. I ran The Giant’s Dollhouse, a winner of the 2013 One Page Dungeon Contest. I also ran this game the previous week online, but it didn’t […]
Tales from the Arco: We side-step into another game
On Saturday, I ran my Fate game, Tales from the Arco. When last we left the adventurers, Garosh and Symon had recovered a powerful and dangerous artifact from Fennel Mostick, and turned it over to Mauriss Shadowriver of Agency Y in exchange for certain material goods. This week, Andy (Garosh) brought a friend of his […]
ConTessa: My first time GMing Dungeon World
I GMed Dungeon World yesterday, online. I’ll start with my #1 frustration, which overshadowed most of what I could have learned and enjoyed about this experience. GMing online is hard, especially when everyone at EDC starts to come out of their drug-addled hazes and starts flooding the network with their photos and delayed tweets and […]
Friendly Fire Isn’t.
Journal entry for Lt. Gwenn of the Harriers…. I feel so bad! Firiel, I’m so sorry! Gods, you would think this was my first time on a job, stabbing an ally in the neck! I’d blame the darkness, the tension of the house… but to be honest, I think I was startled and still tired […]
Tales from the Arco: The Mask of Hallowed Life
Friday was our first actual Fate game on the Arco! Kyle and Andy showed up at 4, and we got started after cracking open a couple of beers. I am really proud of how the adventure went. The system-specific stuff needs work. Fate isn’t failing us, but we’re still new to the system, and it […]