Category: Role-playing

  • #RPGaDay, Day 22: Perfect Gaming Environment

    I don’t really have any preference when it comes to the physical environment I game in. I’m just as happy to sit around a living room as I am to sit at a table, or play at a store or con as opposed to a private home. I do have a separate room at home…

  • #RPGaDay, Day 21: Favourite RPG Setting

    Back in my AD&D playing days, I was a fan of both the Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms settings. Gun to my head I liked FR a little bit more, but they were two of my favourite settings. Eventually support for Greyhawk dwindled, resurging briefly when 3rd edition came out and then fading again. Forgotten Realms…

  • #RPGaDay, Day 20: Favourite Horror RPG

    I mentioned in an earlier RPGaDay post that I’m currently diving deep in to Trail of Cthulhu. But before that I was head over heals for the Call of Cthulhu game, going all the way back to the first box set. I loved playing it almost as much as I enjoyed running it. The issue…

  • #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 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,…