Finally Running a Delta Green Campaign!
So after taking a long hiatus from RPGing in general, both development and gameplay, a friend of mine talked me into running a RPG campaign for a bunch of relatively new tabletop gamers. This crowd...
View ArticleGetting Back into the Gaming Groove
Coming back to RPGs after a year or more of being on hiatus is weird, but I'm beginning to enjoy the process again. One of the things I've started working on is actual playtesting for the T&B RPG....
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Painted Miniature: Old School Dwarf Warrior
A friend of mine was moving a couple of years ago, and in order to clear out some of his junk, he gave me a box of random miniatures and painting supplies. A lot of it was just junk that I wound up...
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Painted Miniature: Old School Ranger
This miniature came to me from the same fellow who gave me the dwarf from the previous blog post. Unfortunately I completely forgot to take a "before" picture of the unpainted mini, but there wasn't...
View ArticleHow About A Catapult?
Quick post this morning to share a couple of .gifs that made me laugh out loud on an otherwise pretty dull Wednesday. This grooves nicely with the Lord of the Rings binge I've been on lately...Part...
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Tankards & Broadswords RPG: Revisiting the Mess
Looking at my Google Doc page for the T&B core rules, it tells me I've not done anything to the rules in a year and a half. I have put together "Quick Start" pages, and I hope this week to do a...
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New Games Workshop Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game Surge
Games Workshop, the company who makes Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000, and within the last 10 years, The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game and War of the Ring, has put out a whole new...
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New Campaign Map Made in Google Docs
I'm a big fan of Google Docs - I use it for pretty much everything I do that isn't work related. The ability to keep everything online where I can get to it from anywhere is a huge advantage for me,...
View ArticleTankards and Broadswords RPG: Playtest Session 1
So last night I ran my first playtest of the TnB rules. It went well, better than I expected actually. I'll provide a brief rundown of what happened and a few observations at the conclusion.There...
View ArticleBoskone 49: A Few Sci-Fi Convention Observations
I attended the Saturday and Sunday sessions of Boskone 49 this past weekend. For those of you who don't know, Boskone is a literary-focused (but less so over the years) science-fiction convention held...
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NANOK is Coming...
"This barbarian, this man of the Iron Wastes, was known only as Nanok. Rumored to have been raised by wolves, Nanok thrived and grew among the giant, rusted bones and shattered crystal tears of a...
View ArticleBook Review: The New Death by James Hutchings
I read this book in bits and pieces over the course of a week. There's a great mix of prose and poetry in here, and while the tone shifts from piece to piece, I think everything is well-written and...
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Coming Soon: NANOK and the Tower of Sorrows
Nanok, wandering swordsman of the Iron Wastes, makes a deal with the Wizard King Midar to steal the mighty Sunsword from the Tower of Sorrows, lair of the dreaded sorcerer, Draaa'kon the Bleak.Pursued...
View ArticleOn Sale Now: NANOK And the Tower of Sorrows
The short story is now Live and available for purchase or Kindle Lending Library borrowing. I uploaded the story to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing site around 9:30 last night, and it went live...
View ArticleNeverwinter Nights: D&D 3E Done Right
So after writing my Sword & Sorcery short, I started jonesing for some kind of video game hack-and-slash action. I had played Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition a few years ago, but didn't get all...
View ArticleTankards and Broadswords RPG: Playtest Session 2
Last night's game was supposed to have a third player, but he wasn't able to attend, instead, I quickly whipped up an NPC Captain of the Blue Tower Guards, a warrior named Alcarn. One goal of the game...
View ArticleJohn Carter Sucked, or Why Hollywood Thinks too Hard
Warning, there are some spoilers ahead. Of course, if you actually care about this, you probably want to know what they are, so you can avoid this film and watch it on Netflix a year from now.I saw...
View ArticleGardner F. Fox - My Favorite D&D Author
Over at Grognardia yesterday James discusses the Fox short story that appeared in the first issue of Dragon magazine. Shadow of a Demon was a fun, simple, straightforward Sword & Sorcery adventure...
View ArticleThe Badassitude of Guin Saga
Since this weekend is the Anime Boston convention here in my fair city, I thought today's post would be appropriate. I'm not a huge fan of Anime in general, but there are a number of titles I really...
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My Vigilante Revenge Thriller "Killer Instincts" is Now Available
After a two-year gestation, my vigilante revenge novel Killer Instincts has gone live on Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing. If you're interested in checking it out, click on the link in the left-hand...
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