Ep.6 Sess.1 Necessary Evil with Marvel Heroic Roleplaying

An actual play recording of our first session of Necessary Evil using the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying basic game. Can our hapless villains fulfill the demands of their mysterious benefactor, and still manage to save their own hides? What happened to their world while they've been locked away in Penitentiary Prime?

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News: 13th Age and Tabletop

There are some very cool things that have come up on the Horizon that have me excited.

The first is 13th Age, a game being authored by Jonathan Tweet (Ars Magica, Over the Edge, and 3e) and Rob Heinsoo (4e, Dreamblade, Three-Dragon Ante). This is basically a fantasy game with old-school sensibilities in its tone, and given the people involved, it will be right to my taste. The art on their page (http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=7750) looks very neat and I look forward to hearing more in the coming weeks!

The second is the newest addition to the YouTube Geek and Sundry channel (a.k.a. Felicia Day and Friend's YouTube), which is the Wil Wheaton hosted TableTop. This is essentially a godsend as it is a normal (well mostly normal) show about geeky boardgames (and I hope one day RPGs) where the fact that everyone on the show being a gamer is not a joke (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). These are well dressed, well mannered individuals who don't live in their mothers' basements but enjoy gaming. I might be making a mountain of a molehill here, but shows like this give me hope that the gaming industry will live a good long time.

Be sure to check these out!

Ep.5 Mistborn Read-through Review

The Mistborn Adventure Game reviewed, an excellent narrative-focused game which serves equally well as something new for hardened gamers or as an introductory game. Now in audio form for those who prefer to hear my mellifluous vocals.

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Ep.4 Lovecraftian Shorts Read-through Review

In this episode I review Felbrigg Herriot's Lovecraftian Shorts, a light, GM-less narrative focused game that nicely emulates Lovecraft's fiction.

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Lovecraftian Shorts - Read-through Review

I'd like to discuss another small press game this time, Felbrigg Herriot's Lovecraftian Shorts. Increasingly some of the best ideas from indie games have found their way into more mainstream role-playing games, so seeing new stuff constantly coming out all the time is exciting. Lovecraftian Shorts is aptly named, its a light game with the same tightly written prose as Death Bringers (check out the review if you haven't yet). It aims to emulate the Cosmicist tales of H.P. Lovecraft, with a nice splash of pulp sensibilities. It accomplishes this through a heavy narrative focus in the mechanics and in the tight adventures it promotes. It has a style reminiscent of role-playing game Baron Munchhausen crossed with Fiasco.

The core mechanic of the game involves a strict turn rotation in which

Ep.3 Deadlands: The Flood Actual Play Review

In this episode I review the Deadlands Plot-point campaign, The Flood, based on our long-running campaign.

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Deadlands: The Flood - Actual Play Review

Saddle up Greenhorns! This time I wanted to review the Deadlands Plot Point Campaign, The Flood. This supplement served as an excellent source for a long-standing campaign in our gaming group, so I'm glad to be able to share my experiences from actual play in the review. As I step through the review of the product, I'll also tell you a bit about our experiences during our campaign.

For those of you less familiar with Deadlands, it is essentially a Western game, mixed with equal parts horror and monster-hunting. In the alternate history of this