I had some friends over yesterday and we played some games. I’ll start with the ones that didn’t make that strong an impression, and move on to the ones that were more fun.
My friend Chris showed me Set. While I recognize the potential for this set-finding game to be a lot of fun [...]

It may be simple, and it may be something that a lot of us have been doing for decades anyway, but I absolutely love quests in 4th Edition. The fact that the DM’s guide gives really good guidelines on how much experience to award for quests at different levels, and the fact that that [...]

I just created my first encounters in 4th Edition D&D today. I actually created a series of connected encounters: two social encounters and a combat encounter that can be avoided entirely if the social encounters go well.
The social encounters were a breeze to create, and were a lot of fun, too. The skill [...]

I realize that, since getting the core rulebooks for 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons, I haven’t really said much about them. I’m still reading the Player’s Handbook, and haven’t really read either the Dungeon Master’s Guide or the Monster Manual an any detail yet, but my initial impressions are, as expected, incredibly positive. [...]

I finally finished reading Keep on the Shadowfell today, and I thought I’d write up a quick review. Again, I have only read the material, I have not actually run the adventure; that will come later, after 4th Edition launches and I’ve read those books, and I’ll likely amend this review or cover it [...]

Yeah, I just got my copy from Amazon. I’ve glanced through it briefly (and red through the entire quick-start guide), and I like what I see so far. The product comes in a very nice pocketed folder. The books themselves have paper similar to what you’d find in a magazine; [...]

May 10th?! Sheesh, it sure has been a long time since I’ve posted. Bad blogger, bad! At any rate, I thought I’d post with some random stuff that’s been on my mind lately, some of it 4E-related, some not. We’ll start with the not.
Zombies. Who the hell doesn’t love zombies? [...]

It occurs to me that I haven’t been posting lately, so I guess I’ll go ahead and update you all on some things.
Games I’ve been playing
Sadly, I haven’t really done much board/card/role-playing gaming lately since the big TPK. I did play a game of Three-Dragon Ante with my friend Dean; it was quite good. [...]

So, Paizo Publishing has decided to put out a product that will, I suppose, compete with 4th Edition. In a bold and, I think, savvy move, they have released an alpha version of The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, so that people can read it, play it, and provide them with feedback that they will use [...]

When I first got my DS, my introductory game was The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. It was fantastic, in every sense of the word; one of the best games I’ve ever played. Hungry for more Zelda goodness, but knowing that that was the only title for the DS, I purchased The Legend [...]