Recent content by damiller

Heroquest. I say this as a very late comer (to Heroquest) I played it with my brother, and the role of Zargon (sp?) is a perfect jump into the basics of GMing. Run the basic adventures, then make your own. Its tight, focused, and simple. As far as I am concerned rules get in the way of learning...

I used co-pilot to take me through a Masks The New Generation game - basically - i used the rules i remembered, and it used whatever rules it could grab on the internet. I was pleased with the result. this morning when I tried to really use the Masks rules to make a character, I realized how...

Currently playing Star Ward d6 using the Magnetic Variant rules as found in Planet of the Apes. I like the smaller skill set, and some of the other simplifications. The campaign pitch was genre movies set in Star Wars. Our first adventure I ended up doing the Voyage of the Demeter. For my prep...

It is really simple. I'll give you that. But having only recently played it, I realized that the Zargon position, is a perfect GM teaching tool. You have a very limited space, and very tight goal, and a way to learn to run an RPG with training wheels on. And I think that is really valuable at...

It was either Star Wars WEG 1st edition core book or MERP I go with MERP because I bought it on a Church Ski Trip. It was the most religious thing I experienced that weekend. Well that and wasting all my money on Gauntlet after nearly plummeting off a cliff. I thank God to this day for that...

Although this isn't the point of the post, I think this is once again the case, but due to the VOLUMEN of content, rather than its dearth. Funny how history is psychoanalytical

New Star Wars d6 game First adventure of a group of privateers. Tagline is "Tramp freighters getting into trouble." They have debts to pay and they have to take any jobs they can get. Set 2+ years after RotJ, the adventure opens with them booking passengers on their transport for a short ride...

I saw the trailer. I love it. just everything. Its like they took the Kevin Mcguire run on JLA Internation and turned it into a movie. I can not wait.

In Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell discusses the ELIZA program created in the....1960s. From his description the creator Joseph Weizenbaum was so freaked out by the behavior of his secretary, he pulled the plug. Eliza wikipedia

i know the dynamic at my table: I am playing. a. game. Games have rules. I like the rules of a game to include ways to do anything in the game, not just some things. If I just wanted to "roleplay" it. I'd do improv. I don't, so I look for games that give me the kind of support I want as a...

For a long time I didn't realize I wanted the latter. Then I did. Now I have one (for d20 anyway), and really what it took for me was to accept I am not interested in altering player agency, I just want a way to have a conflict with verbal judo, not real judo. Basically I realized that it is...

yea, well I did say I had not watched the whole thing through, typical internet person, comment on a video without watching it. At least I admitted it, right? right! :D Thank you for clarifying that bit though because yea, those are quite different definitions. And I am not sure which has a...

i think that man is my brother no he isn't but he's close

i didn't get all the way through the Matt video, but I'am watching DM crisis one, at least the intro, and I am intrigued, for others, at the concept of teaching anyone to GM. im a forever GM, no interest, no desire to play (except that one time in 93) However, I am passionate about people...

Well, if a person likes rules that emulate teen drama, social interactions, then I think it does a great job. If a person just wants to "roleplay" it without little intrusion of the mechanics, then no. I personally tend to like games that provide me with mechanical options for "social combat"...