It’s Okay to be a Horror Character
On the afternoon of Saturday, February 29th, I ran A L I E N: The Roleplaying Game for four mates. I game mastered the “Hope’s Last Day” cinematic scenario in …
The Player Diaries: A Dark Act by a Shining Warrior
Well, the third proper session of Savage RIFTS went down on Sunday morning and holy crap, did it not go down as I expected. I’m looking forward to see where …
How can I help my players bring more oomph?
As I mentioned in the last post, my players for my Star Wars: Force and Destiny game sessions sometimes struggle with taking action in the game. Part of it is …
Embracing Your Inner Murder Hobo
There’s a piece of jargon in RPG circles: Murder hobo. It refers to a trope in RPGs where a group of players travel from place to place in the game …
It’s worse than you realise. They want to be – CUTE…
In a recent post I wrote about how pre-generated characters and adventures let my players and I work out whether we dig a particular system and/or setting before we go …
Why a Deathwatch Space Marine is All a Player’s Christmases At Once
Folks often play roleplaying games to feel like badasses – but could the ultimate badasses of Deathwatch be too much of a good thing?