Monday, July 23, 2012

Burning Wheel for Fun and Profit

Well, not for profit but for research. Yes. Research! Kinda anyways. Since the release of RuneQuest 6, I've had the feeling that it and Burning Wheel cover a lot of the same conceptual territory but obviously as different game implementations. I wanted to blog a bit about it but my BW-wise is a bit...

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Wushu With Kids

Last Thanksgiving, I ran a WhiteBox Swords & Wizardry game for my niece and nephew. It was a huge success. I recently had the opportunity to play with them again. They were very enthused about playing but had a little difficulty getting back into the groove. I took it as an opportunity to try a...

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

ZWEIHÄNDER!

Run, don't walk on over to Grim and Perilous to check out the upcoming release of ZWEIHÄNDER! From the site: ZWEIHÄNDER Grim and Perilous is a dark fantasy role-playing game, loosely based on the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay tabletop system.  Set for release in autumn of 2012, ZWEIHÄNDER...

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

RuneQuest 6 (digitally) in my hands!

As soon as I saw that RuneQuest 6 was available I rushed over to RPGNow and grabbed a copy. I wasn't disappointed. The first impression was that I was looking at an artifact of history. I own Mongoose Runequest 2/Legend and really like them. RQ6 just feels different. I somehow get the feeling that...