I ran Epyllion this weekend at ConTessa Online’s Game Weekend. Here’s the full video (4 hours, 15 minutes): We had some technical challenges, a late player, and a prep issue (I didn’t send out the new, improved character sheets early), but otherwise we made do pretty well and had a fun time with it.
Sharing Games
Over on the Contessa blog, there’s a nice roundup of what we’re playing. Of course, if you read this blog, you already know all the games I’m in right now, but it’s cool to see what the other women are doing right now, including a lot of 5th edition D&D and some Powered by the […]
Stocking Stuffers for GMs
I wrote an article this month for the Contessa Blog! Check it out– it’s Stocking Stuffers for Game Masters. My criteria included that it had to be useful for GMs, be inexpensive, and fit in a Christmas stocking (a lot of stuff is useful, but doesn’t fit in a stocking). You won’t find $35 dry erase […]
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 […]
Hellsing House: A FATE Adventure
Also at the ConTessa convention, I played an RPG called Hellsing House, which was a Fate setting/adventure created and run by Meera Barry, via Google Hangouts. Hellsing House is a halfway house for, well, monsters. It’s a Fate setting that Meera created. The tagline is None who enter leave unchanged. Mechanically, the skill list was limited […]