I played 5th edition D&D for a few years when it first came out and got a little burned out on it. I’m still slightly bitter toward the game because they weren’t producing new materiel. It looked to me like they were just updating old modules and re-releasing them. I tend to gravitate more toward the OSR scene than many of my gaming peers. Most of my friends are into Savage Worlds, Genesys, or ICRPG. The OSR scene is continually producing good content, which is more than I can say for the DM’s Guild or the Savage Worlds Adventurers Guild. This got me thinking, what if I’m missing out on ..read more

Editing Note: As I prepare to smash the publish button in blogger, I realized that I didn’t quite say everything that I wanted to say. There is so much more to this Cyberpunk Red world and this article is already twice as long as I would prefer. I’ll definitely have to continue my thoughts on this in another post. Thanks for reading and I look forward to your thoughts and comments. Where do I start Choomba? I suppose the first thing I should mention is my disclaimer. Cyberpunk is not a genera I’m completely familiar with. I’ve read most of Cyberpunk 2020. and Neuromancer by Gibson and have a ..read more

After some deliberation I’ve decided I’m going to participate in Inktober 2019. Essentially all you have to do to participate is draw something using ink on a daily basis for the 31 days of October. Officially they want you to tag your art with #inktober and #inktober2019 and post it on social media. If you go over to inktober.com, you can find out more info and resources. There is an official prompt list of a single word for each day to help inspire you to draw something related to the word (this is much like rpgaday). There are also other lists floating around that I suppose you can use i ..read more

As I sit down to write this last installment of #RPGaDay2019 I’m dreading the completion of this exercise. For some reason unknown to me I find myself unmotivated to finish it. I feel like its wearing thin on me. While doing weekly installments has been much better than daily it still feels hard to complete. I shall persevere. 22. Lost- Perhaps this one is better suited to lost in translation. There have been many times while playing games or even conveying information via text that the meaning of my intentions get lost along the way. During a game I interpret this as my lack of clue givin ..read more

#RPGaDay2019 Week 3 Well this week’s entries are taking longer than expected. Some of these are really stonewalling me. The past two weeks just rolled off my frontal lobe as I thumb tapped them into my Samsung’s memo pad. Alrighty, let’s do this. 15. Door- Do you loot the room or kick down the door? I kick down the door! As a creative person in any hobby, the hardest thing to do is kick down that door that blocks you from your passion. It could be a metaphorical door like writer’s block, or it could be an actual physical barrier like not having the income to purchase the necessary tools t ..read more

Okay boys and girls its week 2 so lets get right to it. 8. Obscure- This may be a little-known fact but I like to include obscure references to innocuous things in documents I write. That’s easter eggs for you video gamers. I enjoy parodies of well known movies and shows so including these obscure objects is my way of including humorous things (well, humorous to me anyway). 9. Critical- Critical failures in RPG’s don’t necessarily mean failure. Everybody thinks of them as a failure with something really bad happening. While I employ this mentality for the most part, what about just addin ..read more

This was a tough decision for me to participate in #RPGaDay2019 or not. I’ve done the last two years and got bored because the questions felt redundant and boring. This year’s infographic was unique in which a single word is used to prompt whatever you can think of. The previous years I participated daily but this go around I decided to do it weekly, so here goes. 1. First- My first online game was at FGCon 2014. It was also the first Savage Worlds game I played. Aaaand, it was the first game I ever played with my buddy Eric. That was a momentous occasion for me. 2. Unique- One of the ..read more

First I need to thank everyone who showed up and made this convention special. You guys are the best friends ever! 2018's Con on the Cob was a great success for the Nerds-International crew this year, at least in my opinion. I got to see some new faces and a whole bunch of old ones. Some alcoholic consumption may have been involved also. The daily schedule were games from 9am-1pm and 3-7pm. Afterwards we usually just sat around and chatted while playing pick-up games of Zombie Dice, Epic Spell Wars, Spank The Yeti, and Joking Hazard. This year I only ran one game and I had a blast runni ..read more

Captains Log: Stardate 96407.88 Just this last Friday I was preparing to write a review on Stars Withou Number Revised Edition by Kevin Crawford but when I got to the sector creation chapter I got really, really sidetracked. It took me about an hour to roll up my own sector and organize it into an excel spread sheet. Then I started looking around for a standard 8 by 10 hex sheet online and saw some unique ideas. This got my imagination going and I said screw it, I'm gonna make my own. Here you can see my creation and use it for your own if desired. This 30 page pdf took me most of the wee ..read more

This past Friday I was blessed with the opportunity of running some friends through Tales from the Loop: Roleplaying in the 80's that never was. The game turned out great in my mind and I had a blast running this for The RPG Brewery. The players were fantastic and they all got on board the train. I devised this mystery myself and just thought I'd share my notes with everyone. At first I made a different mystery that was more Lost Boys themed but I quickly scrapped that as I wanted more of a Halloween themed adventure. Luckily the game got posponed and I had time to come up with another idea ..read more