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Gen Con 2012–The Final Report–Part 2
Yesterday focused more on the vendors and my purchases. Today is all about the specific events and the promised “worst con game session ever.” Thursday started off with “Firefly Hero.” We hopped aboard “Serenity” and tried to make a living being bad men while avoid the Alliance. By some miracle I wound up with [...]
Livingdice.com is Sponsoring Conflagration 2012
Conflagration 2012 is a new tabletop gaming convention in Tempe, Arizona and we are proud sponsors! I am a firm believer that local gaming conventions are critical to the survival of the hobby game industry, so anything this site can do to drive more people to conventions I will support. Membership is $20.00 for the [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2012–The Day After
Actually, it is a couple of days after, but close enough. Once again I braved Las Vegas, the real-world version of Mos Eisley spaceport for all the latest in gaming news at the Game Manufacturers Trade Show 2012. Over the next week I will post reports on the multitude of vendors and other happenings. Unlike [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2012 Exhibitors and Vendors Link List
RPGs, board games, computer games and everything in between are on offer at this year’s Game Manufacturers Association Trade Show 2012 in Las Vegas. Here is my yearly list of exhibitors and their respective websites, as well as a short description of the company. The show runs from March 12th -16th at Ballys and I [...]
Livingdice Goes Black Tommorow to Protest SOPA
I may not have much traffic relative to Google and Wikipedia, but I do enjoy the right to publish my rantings freely. That said, the Stop Online Piracy Act is a pathetic attempt by large media companies to control the Internet using Gestapo-like tactics. By the way, I do not use the Nazi analogy lightly. [...]
My Nightbane Campaign Ends-The Post-Mortem
After many battles and horrendous personal sacrifice, my players reached the final challenge in my Nightbane campaign, a Nightlord in all his horrifying power. The battle takes places after a brief hiatus due to scheduling issues, but as it is the last encounter and the players are well aware of this fact, I will do [...]
Is the Swiss Army Knife Killing MacGyver?
MacGyverisms, creative combinations of disparate components to solve a life-threatening situation is a key component of all RPGs. Since the very first game that pitted a PC against a twisted GM’s plot line, kludged together solutions saved many a player character. Children of the 1980s call these solutions “Macgyverisms” after the show of the same [...]
Questioning Piracy, Part 3 – The 1 Per 5 Rule
Third Party Companies are justified in getting a little sensitive about the topic of copyright and piracy, regardless of the details of legality. When Amethyst was criticized on RPGNet (not relating to this topic), I held my hat in my hand to be civil. It resulted in more fans and my hardest critic becoming my [...]
Real Illusions – Metagame Hacking
Illusions in RPGs are a sore spot with me. They offer so much potential, but rarely meet their promise because game masters use them poorly. This article is my attempt to add some reality to your campaign’s illusions. Whether through holography, magic or mental might illusion creation exists across the genre spectrum from sci-fi [...]