by jamesthegeek | Sep 7, 2020 | Gaming
Somewhere around the 6th grade I found RPGs. One game I remember fondly, which also happened to be my first solo game, was Citadel of Blood. I remember punching out the unsophisticated cardboard chits and playing it, alone, in my basement. For the past 10 years or...
by jamesthegeek | Apr 26, 2020 | Gaming
Character creation in Savage Worlds is pretty darn quick and easy. And yet, it’s crunchy enough that it may take a new player quite a bit of time to digest all the options. This is especially true when it comes to Edges and how they affect the game. During the...
by jamesthegeek | Mar 14, 2020 | Gaming
RPGs and dice are like peanut butter and jelly. Inseparable. Dice and maybe a table or two are the de facto tools of the trade. However, I’ve noticed that I like using cards. A lot. And, there are a growing number of gaming accessories that come in the form...
by jamesthegeek | Feb 16, 2020 | Gaming
Made some souvenir notebooks for a couple of upcoming games I’ll be running. Have any old spiral notebooks lying around? You know, the ones the kids used in school, colored on every other page and then didn’t want to use the next year? Well, turn them...
by jamesthegeek | Feb 16, 2020 | Gaming
It used to be, back in the day, there were only a couple of gaming conventions. Gen Con and Origins. And, you had to travel to get to either of them. At least I did. But now there are conventions all over the place. These are great, small conventions like...