All Entries Tagged With: "game"
Battlestar Galactica: The Worst Board Game I Ever Role-Played and Enjoyed!
Normally I stick with role-playing games on this blog, but I have to come out of the closet; I play board games too. With that in mind Haaldaar picked up a copy of the “Battlestar Galactica Board Game” from Fantasy Flight Games and rounded up 6 players for a full game last Saturday. I hesitate [...]
Music for War–Taiko by Kodo
I normally am not a fan of using music during my games. I tend to find it distracting. That said, I am attending a Japanese Taiko drum concert tonight by “Kodo” and think that it would make good “realia” for a game session. I saw them on their last tour and was truly impressed. The [...]
Great Story, Terrible System–Games that Need a New Set of Rules
Storytelling is at the heart of every role-playing game. Think of the game master as a director and the players as actors in a very dynamic piece of theatre. Though, they are not in total control. Chance plays a part in this play as well. Gamers use a rules system (usually dice based) to determine success or failure and add an element of risk to the game experience. When the story is original an exciting and the rules serve to advance the story, all is well.
Sadly, that is often not the case. Games with amazing stories often endure grossly inappropriate rules that bury exciting worlds in terrible mechanics.
How to Fire a Bad Dungeon Master
The determination that a game group has a bad DM that needs replacement does not happen over night. It is usually the cumulative result of obvious, cliched plots (save the princess!,) poor table management (the last session ended with 2 hours of arguments about Star Wars vs Star Trek,) miserable presentation skills (the DM’s nickname [...]
RPGSeek–A Human-Verified Role-Playing Game Publisher Search Engine
RPGSeek is a custom Google search engine that only searches a specific list of 371 role-playing publisher websites. I culled these sites from the combined publisher lists of indiepressrevolution.com, rpgnow.com, drivethrurpg.com, yourgamesnow.com, various Google searches of my own design and a few other resources. This created a combined list of about 500 sites. I then [...]
Game Design and Self-Publishing– Resources for Aspiring Game Designers
Byron Collins of “Collins Epic Wargames” wrote an excellent article on the difficulties of getting a board game published, as well as some great advice and resources from someone that successfully published their own board game creation. Normally I do not re-post material from elsewhere on the web, but I thought this article had so [...]
Game Design & Self-Publishing – A Resource for Game Designers
Byron Collins of “Collins Epic Wargames” wrote an excellent article on the difficulties of getting a board game published, as well as some great advice and resources from someone that successfully published their own board game creation. Normally I do not re-post material from elsewhere on the web, but I thought this article had so [...]
Top 9 Hints You Chose the Wrong Game Group
All gamers have that moment the first time you walk into a new gaming group. Some feel nervous, others take charge and tread with no fear. Regardless of which type you are, let these helpful hints guide you in making the decision to come back for a second session. As to why there are only [...]
Beyond Protocol Launches on November 21st
“Beyond Protocol,” an interesting MMORTS game I wrote about previously, releases next week. Just an FYI for those that actually play games on computers occasionally, instead of tabletops. ;-) Trask, The Last Tyromancer
