As you can probably tell from the annual barrage of comments on how much the ENnie awards suck, it’s that time of year again. The ENnie nominees were announced early last week. Over the last four years the ENnies have become my shopping guide to new RPGs. It’s not like it was when I was [...]
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My Top 5 ENnies Picks
Posted in Gaming-Related, Top 5 Lists, tagged RPG, Lists, ENnie Awards, Dark Heresy, Cthulhutech, Mouse Guard, 0One Games, Top 5 Lists on July 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Top 5 Games for the Firearms Fetishist
Posted in Gaming-Related, Modern, Science Fiction, Top 5 Lists, tagged CyberPunk, RPG, Military, Top Secret, Guns, Lists, Military July, Delta Force, Top 5 Lists on July 12, 2009 | 9 Comments »
One of the recurring themes amongst many milsim RPG players is an obsession over firearms. This can go from a simple enjoyment of playing an RPG with modern weaponry, to a truly fetishistic approach where the player(s) obsess over weapon stats, buy armaments magazines and books, and in extreme cases even have “character sheets” for [...]
5 Military Games I Cut My Teeth On
Posted in Gaming-Related, Modern, Science Fiction, Top 5 Lists, tagged Modern, RPG, Military, Science Fiction, Lists, Military July, Phoenix Command, Robotech, Mechwarrior, Merc, Twilight:2000, Recon, Top 5 Lists on July 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This month is Military Month on a Character for Every Game. Since the beginning of the RPG industry, the military was home to a lot of gamers for whatever reason. In turn this meant that a lot of the early RPGs that moved out of the Dungeons & Dragons mold were of a military bent. [...]
Top 5 Dungeons and Dragons Rumours
Posted in Fantasy, Gaming-Related, Top 5 Lists, tagged Dungeons & Dragons, Lists, Gossip, Top 5, Rumours on June 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The rumourmill is a personal favourite of mine. It brings a bit of background to every character even if the player only sees the 6 ability scores and equipment list on his sheet. They can seriously change the way an adventure “feels” if you know the right or wrong rumours. In our own Temple of [...]
Steamworks and Dragons – 5 d20 Steampunk Books
Posted in Fantasy, Top 5 Lists, tagged d20, Dungeons & Dragons, Etherscope, Fantasy, Iron Kingdoms, Lists, RPG, RPG Carnival, Steampunk on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Machines of magic and steam, from personal clockwork enhancements to massive steampowered medieval mecha. Steampunk brings an awesome neo-victorian feel to any event – from goth clubs to computer geek casemods. And of course to my D&D games. This month, the RPG Blog Carnival is stationed over at MadBrew Labs, with the theme of Steampunk [...]
5 Gory Games – RPGs with blood, gore and gristle!
Posted in Gaming-Related, Top 5 Lists, tagged CyberPunk, Gore, Lists, Millenium's End, Promised Sands, RoleMaster, RPG, Top 5, Violent, Warhammer on June 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Splattered blood and hewn sinew. Blades cutting through skin and muscle, lodged in bone. Dismemberment, bloodloss, screaming victims clutching at their wounds…
This week’s top 5 is about gore. While classic D&D handles damage through a simple hit point system that reflects stamina, luck, dodging and skill as well as sheer toughness, many other games went [...]
5 Surreal RPGs that have me hooked
Posted in Mini-Review, tagged Baron Munchausen, Discordia!, Don't Rest Your Head, Lacuna Part 1, Lists, Over the Edge, RPG, Toon, Top 5, Weird on June 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m an old-schooler. I love the classic Dungeons and Dragons feel and game. But I’ve also learned to love just about everything else out there in RPG-land. Even those games that leave you scratching your head or trying desperately to make your head work the same way the game works. I love having my expectations [...]
5 Licensed RPG Games I’m Still Waiting For
Posted in Gaming-Related, Top 5 Lists, tagged RPG, Lists, Thundarr, Dune, Blade Runner, Pern, the Matrix on June 1, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Fight Daleks! Ride Sandworms! Battle with Lightsabers! (Or fight daleks with lightsabers from the back of a sandworm?)
Licensed games. I have a long love/hate relationship with them. From my first licensed game (James Bond) to my long-term active dislike of the original Star Wars RPG, and many others in between. Unfortunately the majority of licensed [...]
5 Truly Worthy Post-Apocalyptic RPGs
Posted in Gaming-Related, Mini-Review, Top 5 Lists, tagged Dark Sun, Dungeons & Dragons, Gamma World, Lists, Living Steel, Mutant Future, octaNe, Omega World, Post Apocalyptic, RPG, TMNT, Twilight: 2000 on May 25, 2009 | 25 Comments »
Weaponizers, After Man and Fallout 3… I’ve been in a post-apocalyptic orgy of destruction for the last while. Mutants, scrounged hardware, custom vehicles and weapons, damaged military cyborgs, the mix of high tech and low culture.
Adventures in post-apocalyptic settings remain one of my favourite “dream games” that rarely actually play out as well around the [...]
5 third-party supplements for classic Dungeons and Dragons
Posted in Fantasy, Mini-Review, tagged Dungeons & Dragons, Lists, Mini-Review, RPG on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For many, third edition Dungeons & Dragons was their introduction to third party publisher support for the game. The reality is that there have been third party supplements (official and unofficial) for Dungeons & Dragons in every edition since the 70’s. Without going into the obvious material of adventures and modules that were printed with [...]
5 More Cool Games from the d20 Bubble
Posted in Gaming-Related, Mini-Review, Top 5 Lists, tagged d20, d20 Modern, Lists, RPG on May 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Once again I’m going into the awesome flood of games put out during the d20 bubble to dig up some classics you might have missed along the way. Like my original 5 Cool Games from the d20 Bubble post, I’m avoiding games released during the last days of the d20 system (like Monte Cook’s World [...]
5 Fantasy City Supplements You Need
Posted in Fantasy, Gaming-Related, Mini-Review, Top 5 Lists, tagged Harn, Fantasy, RPG, Dungeons & Dragons, Lists on May 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today’s Monday Five is about one of my favourite styles of game play. I’m a really big fan of urban adventures, from the mean streets of CyberPunk to the cobbled together city of New Macross on board the SDF-1. But since most of the games we play are Dungeons and Dragons, I’m always on the [...]
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