Setting Yourself Up For Failure
Over the 20+ years of my gaming career I noticed something which has led to the premature demise of many campaigns. It usually starts with me getting the impression that my players are...
February 20, 2018
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Relativity!
Today I finished reading “Time for the Stars”, a classic young-adult science-fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. You might be asking yourselves now why I am reading old young-adult novels and what it...
February 19, 2018
Bundle of Holding: Traveller New Era
If you are into science fiction and space opera roleplaying games the latest Bundle of Holding may be of interest to you. For about $15 you get everything you need to run a...
February 14, 2018
Pocket Gumshoe -Everything is Connected!
If you are familiar with Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency you will know the phrase “Everything is connected”. It generally highlights that everything in the universe is connected to everything else in the...
February 12, 2018
Corporation from Brutal Games
Quite by accident I ended up spending all my free time last week reading the Corporation Core Rules. This is a free PDF so you can grab what a copy if you are...
January 30, 2018
Rise of the Eurogame
I read an article this week about the rising popularity of European and particularly German board games, the so-called Eurogame. The core difference apparently between American and German games in the past 50...
January 24, 2018
Are you sitting comfortably?
I think I mentioned this before but when my group get together and game it happens two or three times a year. We rent a house, the one we have used for the...
January 19, 2018
Games I am excited about: 2018 Edition
Yes, I am easily excited. There are a lot of gamers who are wary of new things, who stick to their old and well-tread ways, but I am not one of those. I...
January 16, 2018
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Distress Call, a Starfinder adventure on Kickstarter, an interview with the author.
A couple of weeks ago I found about a new product in Kickstarter. With the success of Starfinder there are a slew of new third-party products available. Many push the system in new...
January 15, 2018
Tomes of Cthulhu
Bear with me on this one… Recently I have looked at the Fria Ligan games. I like their mechanics and it satisfies my desire for a rules lite but flavour rich game. In these...
January 12, 2018
Happy New Year
While I am still enjoying a few days off from work (and blogging) I thought it would be nice to wish you all a happy new year. I hope you had pleasant and...
January 4, 2018
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Sunglar’s Year in Review!
Hello one and all, and welcome to my look back at 2017, and a look at what may be in store for 2018. I don’t pretend to do a retrospective for the blog...
January 2, 2018
Coriolis
I have spent some of my down time over Christmas reading up on Coriolis from free league publishing. I was super impressed with Mutant:Year Zero with its beautifully simple skill resolution mechanics, the...
December 31, 2017
Game Master Emulators
I half expected Micheal to post this morning, it being Christmas eve. In our house we celebrate a Swiss Christmas today and then do a British one tomorrow as the two halves of...
December 24, 2017
How to GME
This is part two of my mini series on Game Master Emulators [GME]. I want to talk about the actual mechanics of how to use a GM Emulator in this instalment. To give...
December 19, 2017
Truly Collaborative
I am starting my reading up on Corolis but this is going to take a while so I thought I would give you a mini series based around GM emulators. With the discussion last...
December 16, 2017