Archive for September 2008

Flat One-shot games

Ran another flat one-shot this weekend. If there is going to be an absence at the game table our group plays a one-shot (one-off, one-nighter, what do you call it?). This week I ran a WFRP game. I created two third career characters (A Witch hunter and a Master thief) and intended this to be [...]

Thoughts on a Christian RPG

Thanks to this thread at RPG.net I’ve been thinking about what my Christian RPG would look like. Here’s my thoughts from the thread: It strikes me that the difficulty I’m having with most of these is that they all seem combat-centric. And while there are many former soldiers among the Saints, their combat expertise or [...]

Sit down and write

Perhaps the hardest thing, I’m finding, is to just sit down and write. I have a kind of SRD with bulletized rules and notes, but turning that into, say, the section on “How to do Stuff” is proving difficult. I’ve tried several times and I’m getting closer. The difficulty lies in that the rules are [...]

Upcoming Samurai Game

I’ve been reading Samurai Executioner by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, creators of Lone Wolf and Cub as inspiriation for this game. Much of my inspiration comes from the pens of Messrs. Koike and Kojima As a working title, I am going to call the game Dokkōdō, after the work by Miyamoto Mushashi. I want [...]