Organized Crime
I’m mildly addicted to Hard Case Crime books. (Parenthetical trivia: Charles Ardai, the editor and founder of Hard Case Crime, is married to Naomi Novik, who writes the Temeraire series. Fantasy...
View ArticleMagic Money: The Setup
You knew a career criminal by the name of Nolan. First name unknown; she never used it, not even with her close friends, which not all of you are. She used to work for the Outfit, running a club in...
View ArticleThe Merry Daggers
The Merry Daggers are a small company of adventurers resident in Vain’s Rest. They’re based in the Drunken Magistrate, which (as noted elsewhere) is managed by Ba Juerun and his family. There are six...
View ArticleRules: Reign and Secrets
It might be worth rereading the reference material for Secrets first. OK. So: how to implement this in Reign? I’m thinking aloud, because pondering it in solitude for a week hasn’t gotten me much...
View ArticleOne-Shot Thought Experiment
This isn’t something I want to run immediately; I’ve just been contemplating character generation and systems lately and I wanted to do a thought experiment. Thus, if you feel like commenting on the...
View ArticleEsoterrorists: Actual Play
We played some Esoterrorists over at Jere’s last night, and it was awesome. I may have some more analysis-like thoughts later, but I wanted to get down some actual play stuff before it faded from...
View ArticleI'm Not Gonna Run This
But I did just shell out $4 for a PDF of Against The Giants so I could convert it to 4e. Edit: the tournament characters included in the back of the book are named Gleep Wurp the Eyebiter, Cloyer Bulse...
View ArticleWeekend Entertainment Pursuits, Part III
I also played some D&D 4e. Tom runs a nifty game, plus it’s always fun playing with new peeps. Rock on, teenage love triangle, rock on. I’m trying to decide if my Felix is crushing on Geoff. It...
View ArticleGumshoe Redux
Jere ran some more Gumshoe for us over the last couple of weeks; it was once more a bunch of fun. The scenario was more Cthulhoid this time around, not so much from a villain perspective but definitely...
View ArticleBuilding a One-Shot Book
I literally spent half an hour trying to make the phrase “commonplace book” fit this, but I couldn’t, so maybe stop procrastinating and go? Yes. One of the tabletop gaming things I want to do this...
View ArticleOne-Shots: Beyond the Wall
My folder for Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures is complete. This is an OSR D&D-like game aimed at super-quick pickup and play. The concept is that the PCs are all friends who grew up together...
View ArticleOne-Shots: Feng Shui
I’ve been accreting a Las Vegas Feng Shui setting since we lived in Austin, where I ran a couple of sessions of Feng Shui set there. The idea stuck and I really liked Jay Ackel, PI; the Chairman of...
View ArticleOne-Shots: Delta Green
Said I: “Oh, I’ll just grab the winning entry from the 2018 Shotgun Scenario contest and find some pre-gens from somewhere and that’ll be my Delta Green one-shot.” And then I said “Hm, there’s no...
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