Monday, September 17, 2012

Numenera Funded and then some!

The Numenera RPG was obviously successfully funded, and broke the Traveller 5 RPG record by over 200k.

The final total was $517,256. Wish I could have jumped in on this amazing project, but I'm amazed by the amount of support for this project. Over half a million! I'll just have to wait for the game to come out.  (My health and family took precedence over this Kickstarter.)


Sunday, September 16, 2012

First 3 sentence review up

I got my first three sentence review done, a quick review of a must have book for any gamemaster. The Advanced Bestiary by Green Ronin Publishing.

Check it out on the Three Sentence Review Page

Gam3rCon Gam3day Coming up!

Hey all just a reminder,

Gam3rCon Gam3eday is going to be this Saturday the 22nd, from 12-9 at the Tenth Avenue theater.



Gam3rCon.com

(doesn't include my game currently for some reason.)

Games currently on schedule:

Afternoon (12-5)

Pathfinder: Intrigue at Kings Court
You are "members" of the court of Lylon. Your backgrounds are should include some courtly skills (but don't let that dissuade you from making a "bodyguard' or "anchor gymnast"). The encounter will include several skill challenges, as getting involved in the "wrong" combat encounter may detain you from reaching the true threat to the kingdoms! Show early to make characters.

Call of Cthulhu
Horror Stories from the Red Room. 1920's San Francisco. Research the background a mysterios set of paintings and artist who did them.

TMNT: Lost Vegas
A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: After the Bomb game run with Savage Worlds rules, set in the ruins of Las Vegas.

Warhammer 40k
Learn to play the miniatures game where space marines battle out with orcs!

Lords of Waterdeep
A strategy board game, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder – or help – the other lords by playing Intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans.

Smallworld
Small World is inhabited by a zany cast of characters such as dwarves, wizards, amazons, giants, orcs, and even humans, who use their troops to occupy territory and conquer adjacent lands in order to push the other races off the face of the earth.

Metal Gear Solid Risk
Takes place on the standard Risk world map, but also includes the territory of Outer Haven which may be moved around the map to attack other territories. Additionally, nuclear strikes on remote territories may be launched by the player who controls Metal Gear Rex. Players can utilize special units including Solid Snake, the Rat Patrol, Raiden, Liquid Ocelot, Big Momma, and Roy Campbell, each with their own special powers. Players may also collect and play Drebin cards to grant further offensive or defensive powers.

Red Dragon Inn

Munchkin

Evening (5-9)

D&D Next (5th edition)
Come try the newest edition of D&D. Make characters or grab a pregen and journey into the underdark.

DungeonWorld - Old School Fantasy
DungeonWorld is an rpg with old school style and modern rules. It is a world of fantastic adventure. A world of magic, gods, demons, Good and Evil. Brave heroes venture into the most dangerous corners of the land in search of gold and glory. You are those heroes. You go where others can't or won't. You conquer the unbeatable and laugh in the face of Death. There are monstrous things lurking in the world. Are you ready to face them? Beginners welcome, all materials provided. Game plot, style, experience & maturity level will be tailored to those playing.

Tanto Cuoro
The deck building game of anime maids.When the game ends, the player who has the best collection of maids and therefore the most victory points is the perfect master and winner of the game!

Bang!
This card game recreates an old-fashioned spaghetti western shoot-out, with each player randomly receiving a Character card to determine special abilities, and a secret Role card to determine their goal.

Throughout the Day
We will have some GMs who will be ready to do pickup game. You are also welcome to bring a game and we'll help you find players.

Telestrations
Each player begins by sketching a TELESTRATIONS word dictated by the roll of a die. The old fashioned sand timer may limit the amount of time they get to execute their sketch, but it certainly doesn't limit creativity! Time's up! All players, all at the same time, pass their sketch to the next player, who must guess what's been drawn. Players then simultaneously pass their guess -- which hopefully matches the original word (or does it??) -- to the next player who must try to draw the word they see -- and so on.


D&D 3.5 Tower of Chaos.
Red Dragon Inn

Tanto Cuoro
Telestrations
Paranoia
Dominion
Netrunner
Munchkin
Fluxx
Puzzle Strike
Yomi,

Cutthroat Caverns
Space Alert


plus more in the game library.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Numenera Kickstarter Update - T - 40 hours

40 hours remain for Numenera Kickstarter!!!

$417,000!!! Amazing, but that's what you get when you combine Crowd Funding, a Game Design Veteran and a Wholly new setting with gorgeous artwork.

(I'd post more tonight, but oral surgery yesterday...)

Thursday, September 13, 2012

400th post

Time flies when you do what you know and what you love.

This blog started as a down-time thing to do while my wife was up in Canada for medical reasons. I love doing the blog, reviewing games, (though sometimes a supplement comes in without a good reference point which leaves me a bit off-balance.)

The boys turn 13 at the end of the month, I started the blog when they were 11! Craziness.

I'm working on some projects as you know. I'm making the Moderne Worlds of 2039 RPG (Legends) which will be a free RPG, released as a PDF of course, print versions would of course have a cost. I will need artists as I'm a decent artist, I'm not a great artist, I'll be able to contribute conceptually, and perhaps a paper mini series later, and buildings. I try to do something on it every few days.

I have dozens of ideas floating around in my head. I have at least 4 board games, and 3 RPGs rolling around in my skull, in addition to several amazing ideas for supplements, I just need time and money to make some of these ideas reality.

So help support the blog, click on links, buy stuff from DriveThru RPG, I'll get a donate button up soon.... =D

Here's to another 400 posts and an ever increasing presence in the San Diego game community and the Overall gaming community in general.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Editing

Hey, for anyone out there looking for additional editors, I would be willing to jump in and perform editing on game manuscripts, for free, to get the editing credits in publication, as an assistant editor. I have decent grammatical skills, but mostly misspelled words jump off the page at me. In addition, I know the difference between words like: their, they're, and there, except/accept, hanger/hangar, and of course, its/it's. Having these few words correct is key to good reviews and bad reviews at times.

Drop a line to me at EpicRPGBlog@gmail.com.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Dungeon Crawl Classics - Map Adventure Design Competition

So, this has been out there for quite awhile now, DCC RPG with their Free RPG Day offering have a $1000 design contest, basically it's an 1000 word outline of an adventure in addition to completing the map in the DCC RPG style. So it's pretty cool, it combines artistic cartography with creative design.

Now I haven't been able to find a free version anywhere, so unless you got it at Free RPG Day, if you want to get in on the action get it from RPG Now for $4.99, and you get two adventures for DCC RPG also.

Edit: Free version is here: http://www.goodman-games.com/mysterymap.html Thanks Anony! I had tried navigating to it, but I couldn't locate it.