Starting a new semi-regular posting thing here.
I love all sorts of games. I love buying games. I don't always have time to play the games I want or I like things from one game and other things from other games. So I tend to mix things up a lot.
Plays Well With Others will be my you-got-peanut-butter-on-my-chocolate (or fish fingers and custard) posts where I take two or more books or games and mix them up to my tastes.
I have done some things like this in the past here already.
Witch Girls Adventures + WitchCraft RPG
Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea + Magical Theorems & Dark Pacts
Cortex, Savage Worlds and Witch Girls Adventures
I am sure there are others. I know I combined Star Frontiers and Traveller in the past and talked about it briefly.
I have some more here to post soon. Hope you all enjoy.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
d20 Dark Ages: D&D Blog Challenge
Stelios V. Perdios over at d20 Dark Ages is going to be hosting a D&D themed blog challenge for February.
It is worth checking out.
http://d20darkages.blogspot.com/2014/01/d-40th-anniversary-blogging-challenge.html
I am going to be on board of course. I love things like this. I am also looking forward to seeing what everyone else does as well.
We get some grief in the old OSR for being nostalgia soaked. Some of that grief is actually warranted. But this is a big anniversary moment in the age of this hobby of ours and a little self reflection is fun and appropriate.
Now if I can only remember everything I did!
It is worth checking out.
http://d20darkages.blogspot.com/2014/01/d-40th-anniversary-blogging-challenge.html
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| Tentative list |
I am going to be on board of course. I love things like this. I am also looking forward to seeing what everyone else does as well.
We get some grief in the old OSR for being nostalgia soaked. Some of that grief is actually warranted. But this is a big anniversary moment in the age of this hobby of ours and a little self reflection is fun and appropriate.
Now if I can only remember everything I did!
Monday, January 6, 2014
DriveThruRPG New Year, New Game
DriveThruRPG is running a sale for the new year. Get that game you wanted but didn't get for Christmas and now get it at 50% off.
Over 80 games to choose from so get there now and find your new game of the year.
Over 80 games to choose from so get there now and find your new game of the year.
The Day the Earth Froze
Bring me the Sampo!!!
Sorry, wrong "Day the Earth Froze".
No today is for many the first back to work day of 2014. Here in Chicago all the schools are closed so I am in my home office on Frankencomputer trying to work.
I was going to work on my project plans for 2014 today but dealing with snow, dangerous ice and trying to work remote is putting a cramp in that.
Plus it is too damn cold to think. I went out to shovel the end of my drive and in five minutes I went from "this isn't too bad" to "this is fucking awful!" Can't wait to start complaining about the heat again.
As soon as my brain defrosts some I'll have something intelligent to say.
Sorry, wrong "Day the Earth Froze".
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| My fridge says it is -17 outside and it is supposed to get colder. |
I was going to work on my project plans for 2014 today but dealing with snow, dangerous ice and trying to work remote is putting a cramp in that.
Plus it is too damn cold to think. I went out to shovel the end of my drive and in five minutes I went from "this isn't too bad" to "this is fucking awful!" Can't wait to start complaining about the heat again.
As soon as my brain defrosts some I'll have something intelligent to say.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Zatannurday: Young Justice
Anyone else play it?
Zatanna-YJ by ~jadenwithwings on deviantART
Young Justice Legacy count down 08 by ~riyancyy777 on deviantART
Zatanna. From Young Justice by ~derianl on deviantART
Zatanna 2 by ~derianl on deviantART
Friday, January 3, 2014
Celebrating 40 Years of D&D (or 35)
So here we are 2014.
So far it is cold (-6 outside as I write this). But it is also something of a banner year. It is the 40th Anniversary of the Dungeons and Dragons game. The original D&D game, the one hand assembled by Gary and family came out in 1974, but exactly when did it do that?
Well Jon Peterson over at Playing at the World has some pretty good ideas.
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2013/12/when-dungeons-dragons-turns-40.html
With some pains taking research and the skill of an archaeologist he has unearthed a number of artifacts from the time between June 1973 and July 1975 to narrow down the exact date.
I did not start playing then. My start was a little later. Again, hard to pin it down exactly but I have always said December of 1979. That is the first time I read over the Monster Manual and played a game of D&D during recess consisting of the MM and a bad 7th generation Xerox of Holmes. I would not get my own copy of the rules till later, but it is the Dec. 79 date that sticks with me.
We have quite a lot to look forward to really. D&D 5th edition will be out this summer. You can now go to your FLGS (and many Barnes & Nobles) and buy pretty much any edition of D&D you want. DNDClassics.com has gobs of PDFs. Plus there are still plenty of retro-clones, near-clones, what-if clones, Castles & Crusades and Pathfinder.
I am sure there will be plenty of reflections on D&D over the next year leading up to Gen Con; we are a nostalgia soaked bunch really. But that is fine. Spending some time reflecting on where we were is not a bad thing. As long as we keep moving forward too.
So far it is cold (-6 outside as I write this). But it is also something of a banner year. It is the 40th Anniversary of the Dungeons and Dragons game. The original D&D game, the one hand assembled by Gary and family came out in 1974, but exactly when did it do that?
Well Jon Peterson over at Playing at the World has some pretty good ideas.
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2013/12/when-dungeons-dragons-turns-40.html
With some pains taking research and the skill of an archaeologist he has unearthed a number of artifacts from the time between June 1973 and July 1975 to narrow down the exact date.
I did not start playing then. My start was a little later. Again, hard to pin it down exactly but I have always said December of 1979. That is the first time I read over the Monster Manual and played a game of D&D during recess consisting of the MM and a bad 7th generation Xerox of Holmes. I would not get my own copy of the rules till later, but it is the Dec. 79 date that sticks with me.
We have quite a lot to look forward to really. D&D 5th edition will be out this summer. You can now go to your FLGS (and many Barnes & Nobles) and buy pretty much any edition of D&D you want. DNDClassics.com has gobs of PDFs. Plus there are still plenty of retro-clones, near-clones, what-if clones, Castles & Crusades and Pathfinder.
I am sure there will be plenty of reflections on D&D over the next year leading up to Gen Con; we are a nostalgia soaked bunch really. But that is fine. Spending some time reflecting on where we were is not a bad thing. As long as we keep moving forward too.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Mage: The Ascension (Revised) FREE
DriveThruRPG has the PDF of Mage: The Ascension (Revised) free today.
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/199/Mage-The-Ascension-%28Revised%29?affiliate_id=10748
I always rather enjoyed Mage. I thought it was a great idea and a lot of fun to play as characters with world-breaking powers. I just hated players getting so caught up in all the stereotypes and not trying anything new with their characters. Plus some of the Technocracy stuff didn't really make much sense.
In the end I preferred WitchCraft and Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade. But I still enjoy this game a lot.
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/199/Mage-The-Ascension-%28Revised%29?affiliate_id=10748
I always rather enjoyed Mage. I thought it was a great idea and a lot of fun to play as characters with world-breaking powers. I just hated players getting so caught up in all the stereotypes and not trying anything new with their characters. Plus some of the Technocracy stuff didn't really make much sense.
In the end I preferred WitchCraft and Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade. But I still enjoy this game a lot.
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