Tag: Jason Cordova

Some pics from last night’s game of Castles & Crusades. Thanks Kerry Harrison.

These guys finally came in the mail. As a reminder, Rob Ferguson will be running Tenra Bansho Zero on Sunday. Check the Events section!

Look at all these happy Dungeon World players! Tonight’s session was a blast as the party pressed forward through the Kraken’s Cave. We were introduced to new player characters: Karis Zul, a human Abyss Mage (who replaces Gorm the Barbarian, who was killed last session and whose spirit is now forged to a weapon, the Bone Glaive) and Sergeant Hawke, a human Fighter. 

Highlights from tonight include our ranger and his bear, Morko, slaughtering four tritons in a hail of arrows and claws; a battle with a mimic, in which Sgt. Hawke held the creature’s mouth open while the Amazing Larry lobbed a cherry bomb into it; a precarious faceoff with a black pudding which involved lots of hugging, burning and screaming; and our dwarf going to the Black Gate as a result of being absorbed by a Gelatinous Cube (poor guy – he only got to return to the mortal coil by promising to free Gorm’s spirit from the Bone Glaive, meaning the barbarian is not done with him yet). 

Karis Zul is an interesting character, and by ‘interesting’ I mean completely revolting. His eyes have been dissolved from all the times he’s had oil, acid, and Abyssal bile flow from the sockets; and much of his spellwork involves yanking his own teeth and causing them to turn into horrific creatures. A real charmer!

Thanks Kerry Harrison , Daniel Lewis , Daniel Fowler , Kyle Wood and Ferrell Riley 

Apparently at Gen Con there was a game of Fate Core using Aspects drawn from Cards Against Humanity. Best RPG idea ever? Possibly.

Here are some pics from this week’s Story Game Sunday. We played the excellent new game Becoming that was recently Kickstarted by Brian Engard.  

In this competitive storytelling game one player, who is the Hero, is trying to complete a quest. In our case, our Hero was Rob Chang, who was searching for his sister, who was part of a documentary film crew that went missing in the woods of Maine (a la The Blair Witch Project). The other three players are the Threats, in this case: The Witch, The Woods, and Creeping Terror. The Threats are trying to make Rob lose his way, give up hope, flee in terror, and so forth by putting various challenges in play. The Hero has a number of Virtues, Allies, and Strengths he can rely on. The Threats are always trying to negate these attributes, but as a meta condition can also make deals with the Hero player in order to strengthen their own position.

At the end of the day, the game is competitive. If the Hero makes it through all nine scenes with at least one of his attributes still in play, he wins and can narrate a successful outcome. If one of the Threats wins, they get to narrate his demise.

The game is incredibly fun. I would put it right up there with Fiasco in terms of games that are great to break out at a party or with a group of people who might not otherwise RP. It is also very similar to Fiasco in that it has playset-like Quests. 

Thanks to Rob Ferguson (our hero), Daniel Lewis (Creeping Terror) and Maximilian Garza (the Witch) for a good session. 

Some pics from last night’s Friday One Shot, 2300 AD. Thanks Lynn Byrd for a gaming blast from the past!

For those of you who have a copy of tremulus, have you started reading it? And if so, what do you think so far? 

I know it probably seems early to start planning for November, but it’s much easier for me to host games if they get on my calendar as soon as possible. With that in mind, who would like to run a game for Story Game Sunday? The following dates are available: 11.03, 11.10, 11.17, and 11.24.