The player characters in the third session were Fatih Yilmaz a young Turkish ectomancer; Professor Henry van Bergen , a Prussian historian with a lot of knowledge about magic; Horatio Quinn IV , an American wizard...

The player characters in the third session were Fatih Yilmaz a young Turkish ectomancer; Professor Henry van Bergen , a Prussian historian with a lot of knowledge about magic; Horatio Quinn IV , an American wizard...

For longer-term campaigns, I love finding a drawing or photo for each of my characters – something to give me and the others at the table an idea of who my character is, or at least...

We’re currently in the process of converting our 4E D&D game over to FATE due to almost group-wide dissatisfaction with the 4E rules. The specific rules are a mix of Strands of Fate and the Dresden...

OneBookShelf, owners of RPGNow and DriveThruRPG have just announced the release of A Better Game With Dice and Chips , a complete collection of every “A Better Game” article written in 2010, as well as every...

I just finished listening to the latest episode of the All Games Considered podcast in which their “RPG Buffet” group discussed their experiences playing 4th edition D&D. This is their last stop on a yearly goal...

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Dust Devils is a rules-light storytelling game that focuses on tales of redemption in the Old West. The elegant system both cleaves close to the source material (poker hands for task resolution!) and does a great...

Dust Devils is a rules-light storytelling game that focuses on tales of redemption in the Old West. The elegant system both cleaves close to the source material (poker hands for task resolution!) and does a great...

I’ve run three games of Fiasco over the past three weeks at the after-school club, each of them a big hit with the high school students, so much so that we’ve actually had drop in players...