To the dungeon with you!

The site is linked in the sidebar to the right, but I wanted to promote Megadungeon.net as something special: a collaborative, volunteer-based design of of a large, ruined monastery and dungeon in the tradition of the early days of roleplaying games, especially Dungeons and Dragons. Even if you don’t play D&D, the maps are quite [...]

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Back from vacation

Actually, I’ve been back for a couple of days, but yesterday was rather a lost day. Ever notice that it often takes a day to rest up after a vacation? Odd.
Regardless, from Tuesday last week through this Monday instant, I was in Indianapolis for the GenCon Game Fair. I’ve been going a long time – [...]

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Very happy

My copy of Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying arrived today, and it even managed to survive unscathed being shoved into a way too small mailbox by a criminally careless postman.
Time to get to reading.

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How’d I miss this?

Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying system, the engine behind Call of Cthulhu and other games they once produced, has been out in its own book since 2008. Finally! Only 20-25 years after it should have been out, when it would have stood a chance to be a major alternative to other multi-genre systems, such as Hero or [...]

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Priced out of the market?

I’ve wanted to pick up some spare copies of the Dungeons & Dragons Cyclopedia (1991), the compilation of the Basic Dungeons and Dragons game that was put out in five boxed-set booklets in the 1980s. Years later and after numerous versions and editions, I still think it’s the game’s best incarnation. But I didn’t think [...]

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There and back again

I’m back. Did you miss me? I had a lovely time in Indianapolis, attending the GenCon game convention in Indianapolis. Never got to the zoo as I had hoped: I may have to go a day earlier next year.
And, yes, there will be a next year, barring unforeseen good or bad fortune. I even got [...]

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The future the way it should have been

(This is one of several posts I’m saving from my LiveJournal account, which is soon to be deleted. Originally written on October 22, 2004, it describes a future-history roleplaying campaign that I’d love to run someday. It’s based largely on my fondness for 50s science fiction movies and the future as they saw it. Enjoy.)
A [...]

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