Like many gamers, I enjoy keeping stats of my games. I track my total games played, the games I own, and overall rating of each game played. At the end of each year I look forward to one other statistic - Board Game Staying Power. What Is Board Game Staying Power Staying power is a … Continue reading Board Game Staying Power
About a year ago I completed my first game*, Deduction Name Game. Today, I’m revisiting my design to see what I've learned since then. *Kind of...keep reading, you'll see. The Game Deduction Name Game is a game that my wife, Anna, taught me many years ago. It’s a name memory game (which brought about my … Continue reading What I Learned – Deduction Name Game
Four legs sprout, and a timid creature gathers food, ensuring yet another generation of existence. But wait - a predator appears, twice as big! The timid creature needs to adapt or die - and it adapts. It can climb! Food is gathered, and another generation lives on. But what’s this? The predator is back, and … Continue reading Evolution
Last night, I had an opportunity to create a new adventure for 4 gamers who were relatively new to Role Playing Games. I decided to run character creation through an OSR system I hacked together a few weeks ago. This allowed me to keep character creation simple and under half an hour. The adventure was … Continue reading New Seats At Your Table
If your campaign group loves going off the rails, and the NPC accents you come up with are like mine (really bad), then you have the same problem I do! Here are 5 ways you can add more realism to the quickly created NPCs in your campaign. Hatred and Suspicion “I can do a quick … Continue reading d6-1 NPC Realism On The Fly
