After being told by a ton of people that I have tosee it, I finally got around to watching The Good, The Bad, The Weird. All I have to say is, if you’re looking fror a great South Korean 1930s Hero Pulp Spaghetti Western, or you just want to have a lot of fun watching … Continue reading
This game is full of things that I love. I love genre mashups, and Sword Noir combines two of my favorites: sword & sorcery, and film noir. Specifically citing Fritz Leiber alone would have won me over, but he also credits inspiration to Robert E. Howard, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett. It’s also a system … Continue reading
This is a game that don’t get to run often enough. Without a doubt, it is one of my favorite roleplaying games. It’s also one of the most unusual, as it abandons many of the traditions and structures that arguably define tabletop roleplaying games and focuses on storytelling and worldbuilding. Rather than the gamemaster create … Continue reading
My first playtest of Cthulhu Dark used a published Delta Green adventure. Because I will run this adventure again for another group and/or at conventions and game days, I don’t want to give away too many details. What I want to focus on is the experience of running the system itself. Converting a published adventure … Continue reading
As the Producer of several Primetime Adventures series, there are a few things that I’ve learned to keep in mind during the creation of each episode. When I’ve forgotten these things, or simply let them slide, the episode and the series has suffered for it. Even though the game is cooperative and the ensemble nature … Continue reading
Years spent on the fringes of Cthulhu Mythos fandom have conditioned me to dislike August Derleth. Yes, he is responsible for preserving Lovecraft’s work and keeping it in print, and without Derleth there may have been no modern Mythos fandom. On the other hand, he screwed around with Lovecraft’s work an awful lot, changing things, … Continue reading
The Jewels in the Forest This was the very first Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser story Fritz Leiber ever wrote, back in 1939. It first appeared in Unknown magazine in August of the year, under the title “Two Sought Adventure”. Spoilers ahead. The lads have stolen a treasure map, with a bit of prose poetry … Continue reading
When I prepare one-shots, I do it with the intention of running it more than once. Somewhere, some day, I may be in another group and need a fill-in between regular campaign sessions. I may want or need something to run at a convention or game day. The only thing that makes it a “one-shot” … Continue reading
