Tag: Jason Cordova

We were short a couple of people for our regular Dungeon World game, so we played Monster of the Week instead. Great game, terrific story (if I do say so myself). I would like to get MotW to the table more often.

Thanks Kerry Harrison, Ian Hay, Daniel Fowler and Alexander Hay.

So, starting in September, I will be running Wednesday Night Hangouts. These games will be run through Google Hangouts and will be three Wednesdays out of the month from 7:00-10:30. The first game will be Monsterhearts.

Yesterday’s session of Fiasco was a blast! We played the Camp Death play set (think: Friday the 13th). 

Warning: the following play report is for a game that was terribly misogynistic and in completely bad taste. We were trying to be true to the slasher flick genre, and I think we did a good job, but just bear in mind that it got a little off-color. 

The game was set in 1982. Our characters were: Camp counselors (and identical twins) Ford Cruller and Cletus Cruller, who had a bet to see who could score with the most girls (the loser had to join the military and pay for the winner’s first year of college); Syd Simone, the head camp counselor, who was also a lecherous perv, on the run from the law for being a peeping tom; and Cindy “Peaches” Burnside, who was your standard 80’s era slasher flick party girl (and southern belle).

There was a gaggle of NPCs, too, including Carlos Chorizo, whose Mexican exoticness was of particular interest to Peaches; Lily, the good Christian girl who got split up the middle the precise moment she abandoned her values (her body was found filleted and clutching a Bible to her chest cavity); Sam, the tomboy, who got pitchforked; and a pair of bimbos from California named Pomona and Anaheim. 

In the end it was all sex and gore and high camp. And it was a good time. 

Thanks to Ferrell Riley , Rob Ferguson, and Richard Schaefer.

Last night turned out to be a nano-convention. We had enough people to play two separate games: Geodesic Gnomes and Monster of the Week. Everyone had a great time!

I feel like I need to buy this because a) it’s from the same guy who wrote Annalise, b) it only costs $1.50, and c) it has quite possibly the best name EVER. 

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/93028/Witness-the-Murder-of-Your-Father-and-Be-Ashamed-Young-Prince

Gaming epiphany alert! Kerry Harrison , Trey Palmer , Daniel Lewis, Daniel Fowler , Alexander Hay , and Ian Hay 

So, in MotW, you can actually make the Help move AFTER the person you intend to help has rolled. I have always been dissatisfied with the Aid/Hinder move in DW, but I think making this adjustment would really open it up a lot. And I think it’s completely in the spirit of the game: the person aiding/hindering is opening themselves up to retribution. You could also have neat risk/reward situations where the help target rolls a 9, and a decision has to be made about whether Help would be worth attempting. 

Chronicles of Skin came out of nowhere (I had never heard of it before last week). It can be summed-up with one word: excellent. This is a terrific little game that really nails the feeling of re-discovering a pair of civilizations lost to time. Fantastic stuff – everyone should go buy it immediately. Thanks to Stephen Crawford and Ferrell Riley .