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Yesterday I came home from Continuum 2010, an excellent bi-annual roleplaying convention. Energised and revitalised by the ideas and conversations I had experienced, clutching a copy of the rather cool OpenQuest rulebook, I have been reflecting on what to do next within my own roleplaying…
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Does anyone have any tips on how to run a game using an online tool like KloOge.Werks? Any tips or ideas? Why do I ask? Well, I’ve got the opportunity to run such a game for a couple of newbies who want to get into…
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There is one game system that I have been wanting to try to run for, frankly, years. Hero System was something that I discovered back when the 5th Edition was released. I got to play it when I visited Origins in Columbus, Ohio way back…
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I’ve become acutely aware that I haven’t posted much to this site since I revamped it at Christmas. What, you may ask, am I playing at?
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Moving ever closer to an actual playtest of Alpha, we’ve uploaded a draft of the Combat Rules for consideration and testing. If you would like to download the draft, click here: Alpha Combat Rules. Alpha prefers to play using miniatures and a hexed battle area,…
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Adam Forth drifted in a haze, floated in a light that surrounded him. There was no sense of direction, no gravity. Adam was simply there. Yet not alone. “Do you remember what happened?” Adam wasn’t sure that he did remember. He strained his mind back…
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Now available for download and comment is the first draft of the fundamental element of the Alpha game rules, namely the basics of tests, along with drafts for the character attributes and skills sections of the game. The Basic Rules reveals the “core mechanics” of…
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Adam Forth was a pretty decent IT guy until he got knocked down by a car, on his way to work one winter’s morning. That was the day that Adam died. Yet that wasn’t the end of things for Adam. Soul Shards is a new…
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One of the first things for a new Gamesmaster to get their head around is what it is, exactly, that they are getting themselves into. Roleplaying games are unusual things and, whilst many words can be found elsewhere that define them, you need to work…
