Some of you may remember my imaginary Roleplaying Games company, D101 games.
Well its come back to life, after being semi forgotten for the last year
Here’s the journal
http://d101games.livejournal.com/
If you’re interested in what I’m doing rpg writing these days, please go make friends with it (it really is irrepressible).
| You Were Born Under: |
 No worries, you’re not really pig-like in your personality. (Though you have been known to have a healthy appetite!) You are highly intelligent – forever studying and gaining knowledge. You have a heart of gold and you are appreciated by many. You are most compatible with a Rabbit* or Goat. |
* the missus is a Rabbit
Well Furnace exceeded all my expectations. I expected to enjoy it myself but I was overwhelmed by the fact that everyone else enjoyed if from word go with no let up! We could have done with about ten more bodies to fill all the games, but none of the attendees went without 🙂 I’ve been to many other gaming cons, but I can safely say this was the most relaxed and friendliest I’ve ever attended. I could witter on some more, but my brain is still melted with joy from the whole experience….
Read others praise
Rik Kershaw Moore (Kult of Keepers, a Call of Cthulhu group)
Evil Gaz (who ran lots of games for us)
Graham Spearing (Furnace chairman)
…oh and we’ll be doing it again next year, probably the weekend before (20th-21st Oct 07)
Make em geeky
HeroWars, first edition HeroQuest, too many to quote really. All stemming from the fact that the explanation of the single unifying Dice mechanic was borked.
2)Which game system suits the game they are actually trying to create least?
RuneQuest. They present Glorantha as a world of rich in politics and magical mystery and they gave use a system where you can kill things and take their stuff instead.
This is why I like Mongoose’s new version of RQ and 2nd Age Glorantha, because they are pretty up front about the how the setting and system fit together and Imperial Glorantha has two empires, fighting each other and everyone else, who might was well have “kill folk and take their stuff” as their motto.
3)Best computer game ever? And why?
Deus Ex. Its a FPS (blam kill things) its Roleplaying game( yar get better at killing stuff) its a sneak’em up, its got a gripping ending with multiple paths and endings, its cool cyberpunk with great music.
4)What is your favourite RPG story of all time?
The one we created at Tentacles by playing 11 hours of a mini-campaign that I have written for HeroQuest based in the Lunar empire. Started of slow, swords and sandles stuff, ended up totally cosmic horror. Obviously I haven’t enough room to go into it here.
5) If you had to choose to have a son or a daughter – which would you choose and why?
Daughter, because I grew up in a male dominated household and would like a change of pace.
Mongoose publishing, a UK company that made their name and business out of D20 games, have produced a new version of a game I have fond memories of Runequest.
Despite the fact that I’m more than happy with RQ2 with the Gloranthan Classics from Moon Designs, for my Old School RQ needs (despite playing Rq3 more I find it a bit broken in places and over fiddly), I’m quite enjoying MRQ.
Its nicely written, clearly laid out and despite a few typos is a joy to read.
I ran through character generation last night, and rolled up two characters in half an hour and found the char gen system much more streamlined. As someone who struggles with lots of maths in games I’m glad the characteristic modifiers for skills have gone and is replaced by simply using the appropriate characteristic or sum of characteristics as a base. Also I like the professions and character backgrounds, a much more streamlined version of cultural backgrounds and occupations from RQ3. Once niggle however was the laughable amount of kit that even a noble could afford. I rolled up a pc with a noble background and he could just afford his main weapon, a shield, a leather shirt and a backpack! I plan to fix this by having default equipment for each background and profession, like in RQ3.
It should also be noted that both characters I rolled up, a noble solider and barbarian woodsman, are without any magic. In the core rules only magic using professions get access to magic. I’m in two minds about this. On one hand one of the unique selling points of RQ as a system was that everyone got magic. However even playing in Glorantha you tended to find beginning players weren’t interested in what magic they had started with until they saw non player characters using it. Then quite often they wanted to dump the magic spells they started with and learn ones of more use. The new Rune magic system in MRQ with its pick up the runes left in the adventure approach will maybe work with these types of players?
Read thorough the Combat rules this morning on the bus to work with the intention of running a combat with my two new characters tonight. Looks pretty straight forward and there’s allot of rules that used to be house rules in our old games, such as the impaling weapons staying in wounds or being painfully ripped out. Saying this I’m still a bit timid about the lack of Total Hit points, since I played in Tom Zunder’s play test (version 1.5 of the rules) and we got really stuck on this point and ended up fighting the limbless broo for several rounds (think Monty Python Black Knight meets RQ combat). Saying this reading the rules it answers most of my questions arising from that combat.
So far its not the RQ of my yoof, and its not a modern RPG, in the sense that Burning Wheel, HeroQuest and Sorcerer are, by any stretch of the imagination but its a nice updating of a game that has many happy memories for me.
Sandy Peterson and the Kult of Keepers at the 25th Cthulhu anniversity party
I haven’t wittered on about this one since its been quitely chugging away in the background. Well since Continuum, were we did a great deal of promotion its now begining to thunder along nicely. So come Oct we’ll have a room full of 50 gamers in a Sheffield hotel having a fun time 😀
Took Friday off, since the old batteries where begining to run a bit low. Did pretty much bugger all except play Halflife 2 and play about with our new 6Mega pixel Fuji Film camera (no evidence though, since dofus managed to erase all the pics I took).
Saturday did a bit of much needed house work, started playing Call of Duty 2 again (can you spot the theme here). Then in the afternoon dragged my self out to Oldham town centre, for whats probably my 4 or 5th visit since moving here! Took lots of piccies with new camera, which I’ll post latter when I’ve got a new web host sorted (cos my current one is full up!). Also visited the new libary and got some books out (as you do). Visited the local Wetherspoons for a quick pint, then headed home to have a couple more and play Deus Ex, and oldly but goody.
Sunday. Really ramped up the effort on housework and gardening, which I think impressed Rach (well at least she didn’t moan about lack off). Had the worst Sunday Lunch ever at a local pub with the inlaws. The food was terrible and best forgotten. Not going there again. Then did the back lawn and loafed around the house.
On the getting ready for Continuum in two weeks time front, did some more work on my Stalingrad meets Tolkien Burning Wheel scenario which is loosely based on the film Enemy at the Gates. Really enjoying writting this and looking forward to running it. Mark Galeotti ,contributor/ex line editor of HeroQuest and Dr in Russian history, wrotes some nice Lifepaths and a new rule for the Communist Dwarfs who are the PCs of the adventure, which has saved me alot of time + added to the fun 😀
Wonderfully hot weather we are having at the mo eh?
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Old School dungeon adventuring finally gets its own LJ meme.
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