Category: Gaming

  • #RPGaDay, Day 19: Favourite Supers RPG

    I have to admit, I haven’t played a Supers RPG in a very long time. I’ve picked up some of the more current ones to read, like Champions and Mutants & Masterminds, and I’ve enjoyed them. But without getting to play them I can’t really call them my favourites. No, my favourite is actually a…

  • #RPGaDay, Day 18: Favourite SF RPG

    It’s actually been a while since I’ve played an SF RPG, so I don’t know if I have a favourite. But I had a lot of fun with TSR’s Alternity system when it came out, back in the 20th century. It had a clever new mechanic and an interesting setting (later, settings) that made it…

  • #RPGaDay, Day 17: Favourite Fantasy RPG

    This is a harder question to answer now than a year ago. A year ago the answer was the Pathfinder RPG, and Pathfinder still has the finest organized play I’ve ever encountered (and helped run, as Venture-Captain). But a year ago D&D 5th edition didn’t exist, and I hadn’t give the AGE system a closer look.…

  • #RPGaDay, Day 16: Longest Game Session Played

    Currently, the only time I play for what would be considered a really long time are either: a) Gen Con, where I can sometimes end up GMing three Pathfinder Society scenarios in one day which adds up to about 14-15 hours of play; or b) Extra Life, when I game for 24 hours straight. But…

  • #RPGaDay, Day 15: Longest Campaign Played

    Recently my regular Thursday night group took a break from our long-running Rise of the Runelords Pathfinder campaign. I’ve been gaming with this particular group of guys (with some additions and subtractions along the way) for over 8 years. Of that time, we’ve been playing Runelords long enough that we started in D&D 3.5 and switched to…

  • #RPGaDay, Day 14: Favourite RPG Accessory

    Dice. Don’t even have to think about. Dice are my hands-down favourite gaming accessory. You give me a cool, weird, awesome set of dice and I am your friend for life. If a game has a cool set of custom dice with it, I am immediately interested. Games like Zombie Dice and Cthulhu Dice, which…

  • #RPGaDay, Day 13: Favourite RPG Podcast

    My current favourite gaming podcast is actually for a game I have yet to play, Numenera. Numenera: The Signal is a brilliant example of making a piece of media useful both in and out of game. Each roughly twenty minute episode focuses on some aspect of the Ninth World, the setting for Numenera. It includes…

  • #RPGaDay, Day 11: Favourite RPG Writer

    I completely missed the start of this for this year, so today I’ll be catching up, working back from today’s topic. If you want to see my answers to the previous day’s questions, keep scrolling down.  Day 11: Favourite RPG Writer This may be one of the hardest questions for me to answer. And no,…

  • RPGaDay #28: Most Memorable Encounter

    I was stumped on this one, until I decided to broaden my interpretation. In 2010 I attended Gen Con for the first time in over a decade. I travelled down from Edmonton with a group of friends, and since it was my first time back in a while, chose to get the VIG, or ‘Very…

  • RPGaDay #28: Scariest Game You’ve Played

    The scariest game I’ve played, and I’m sad it hasn’t been topped since, is the first time I played Call of Cthulhu. I’d read H.P. Lovecraft and stories inspired by him for years, and I picked up the first edition of the game when it came out. But I didn’t have a chance to play…