I recently posted about my frustration with some of the oddities of Shadowrun 5e on Facebook and was asked to elaborate on some of the specifics of what I'm encountering. This is a much easier medium to write a long post in than Facebook though, so I'm putting it here - where it will post …
Life Without Dice
Diceless games are hard. I've written about diceless games before - I love Amber DRPG - and explored other games that don't use dice (or cards, or any sort of randomizer). I tend to very much enjoy games without randomizers, without the disturbance of dice. I've tinkered with trying to create such a game several …
It’s D&D!
Terrible title. I've been having an amusing conversation online with some friends about how to pronounce "D&D words." Words like Drow and Mordenkainen and Corellon. This mainly happened because I was watching a video of Jeremy Crawford talking about stuff in the newest 5th edition book. In the video, Jeremy Crawford pronounces Drow as in …
HBS: Battletech Game
I thought about not even writing about this game. Here's the short version. I love Battletech. I don't love this new video game. To examine that statement with a bit more nuance... I'll just give you my impressions of the game. Take them as you will. I've put about 20 hours into the game and …
Battletech – A debate (part two)
The newest Battletech videogame, from Harebrained Schemes is now officially released, so it seemed like a good time to return to Battletech. In my previous post I mentioned that there were two significant debates I see crop up about Battletech and that they were both somewhat intertwined. The first was about why Battletech never achieved the …
Star Wars: the Force Awake?
So, Star Wars is a hot-button issue for our little geek community these days… I’m going to skip over all of that though. I want to ruminate about the Force. This post evolved from a lunch conversation with my wife, a lifetime of being a Star Wars fan, and 20+ years of running/playing/thinking about Star …
Battletech – A debate (part one)
I follow a pretty decent Battletech group online. They have their squabbles, and there is plenty of old vs. new debate... But by and large it is a quality group that helps spread the lore, provide good updates, and occasionally engage in an interesting debate. There have been two debates that I've seen recently that …
