Thursday, May 22, 2014

"Back in the Saddle, and Back on the Horse"

Heh,

That's a reference as to what happened yesterday with several Kickstarters coming to life with "Back in the Saddle" and GMS saying he looks forward to getting back on the horse after his illness.

It's strange how 3 years ago I was all OGL. I was still spell-bound by Pathfinder, Far West looked to be an amazing piece of upcoming d20 based goodness. Now, I've been playing more games, different games, thanks to the Blog.

My hate of the d20 has solidified, enough so when I do get around to making my game, you won't need a d20. I've made several hacks for removing the d20. Numenera being the most recent.

I'm really getting back into mini gaming. I love Malifaux 2e, and Hell Dorado. I'm still a major fan of Judge Dredd, not just because I demo it, but because I enjoy playing it. It captures the proper feel of Judge Dredd. I'm hoping to play more wargames over summer with the boys. X-Wing is a really fun game that's more about using combos well and out-guessing your opponent than NEEDING to buy 8 copies of the most expensive one. I'll be playing in my first X-Wing tournament on June 1st at At Ease games. I don't even know the format yet!!!

Judge Dredd
Hell Dorado
Malifaux
WarLands
Rezolution
X-Wing

While I generally don't like CCGs any more. I do still have my L5R cards, and I picked up the Box set game, so that is a game I'll be teaching to the boys this summer.

Really fun thing happening this summer is that as an aside, we sill be doing a Library based Gaming Club over summer. (we're not allowed to link it to the high school gaming club, so it's just the Mission Hills Gaming Club.)

Wow I haven't been this wordly in quite a while. Mostly because I was suffering from that crazy exhaustion.

Feels good.

More later, lunch is OVER!

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Deadzone Sale

HUGE Deadzone sale at Miniature Market

If you've been thinking about getting Deadzone, it's currently on sale for $59.99 on Miniature Market.

We just finished a Mini-campaign of 4 games, I think I took second place (Enforcers). The Marauders took first. Forgefathers second, and Rebs last.

Deadzone


Contents:
1 Full Colour A4 Rulebook
6 Eight-sided Dice
130+ Counters
54 Card Enforcers Faction Deck
54 Card Plague Faction Deck
Urban Battlezone
- 2’x2’ Durable Urban Gaming Mat
- 28 Modular Plastic Scenery Tiles
- 20 Piece Plastic Accessory Sprue
- 48 Piece Connector Sprue
12 Plastic Enforcers Miniatures
- 1 Enforcer Peacekeeper Captain
- 4 Enforcers with Heavy Rifle
- 2 Assault Enforcers
- 1 Enforcer Engineer
- 1 Enforcer Sniper
- 1 Enforcer Missile Launcher
- 2 Enforcer Sentry Guns
11 Plastic Plague Miniatures
- 1 Plague Stage 1A
- 3 Plague Stage 2A
- 4 Plague Stage 3A
- 1 Plague Stage 3A with HMG
- 2 Plague Stage 3D Hellhounds

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Site Updated

Alright,

For some reason the update the I had done for Upcoming Conventions, never took. So here are some much needed updates.

Convention Schedules Updated
2014 Conventions are up to date. 

Store Locator Updated
Updated At Ease Games & Villanous Lair locations.
Removed Game Towne Location, added Eulogy.

I will be working with the boys to update a lot of the site over the next couple of weeks. Time to get Epic RPG Blog back on track.

"I'm back baby!" - Bender "Epic RPG Blog" Rodriguez.
 

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

KINGDOM CON STARTS TOMORROW!!!

COME ON DOWN!!! http://www.kingdom-con.com/



I have the 10AM timeslots for RPGs on Friday and Saturday.

Kingdom Con 2014 - RPGS

April 24 - 3:00pm
Outbreak: Can YOU Survive?
Outbreak: Undead
GM: Brett Lynam
Length: 4 Hours
Players: 9 or more
It has finally happened; the dead walk and society has crumbled. This is a character generation session in which YOU generate YOURSELF as a character and see if you can survive the zombie apocalypse. NOTE: This will allow you to play yourself in the Saturday or Sunday scheduled games of Outbreak:Undead. If you don't plan to play one of those sessions, please don't attend this one.

April 24 - 8:00pm
Corporate Trash
Shadowrun 5
GM: Chris Czerniak
Length: 4 hours
Players: 5
Johnson has just screwed you again: no payment, top of Lone Star's wanted, and family and friends threatened for extra measure. This is the last straw and it is time for one more shadowrun to bring Johnson down, it is time to take out the trash.

April 25 - 10:00am
Murder in Bartertown
Earthdawn 4e
Ron Tilton
4 hours
Players 6
"Come play with one of the Developers of the the 4th Edition of Earthdawn. Scheduled to be released at GenCon, this edition will feature a streamlining of some of the rules to help modernize the system.
Murder in Bartertown
The war with Thera is over, but hostilities still remain. What befalls the Theran Ambassador in Bartertown?"

April 25 - 10:00am
Outbreak: Can YOU Survive?
Outbreak: Undead
GM: Brett Lynam
Length: 4 hours
Players: 9 or more
It has finally happened; the dead walk and society has crumbled. This is a character generation session in which YOU generate YOURSELF as a character and see if you can survive the zombie apocalypse. NOTE: This will allow you to play yourself in the Saturday or Sunday scheduled games of Outbreak:Undead. If you don't plan to play one of those sessions, please don't attend this one.

April 25 - 3:00pm
Child's Play
DC Adventures/ M&M 3rd Ed
GM: Steve Jonesbr
Length: 4 hours
Players: 6
"The Justice League has gotten themselves into a bind and it is up to Young Justice to bail them out. This game. Based on the popular DC Cartoon Young Justice the players will taken on the roles of the Young heroes.
Rules will be taught so if you are new to the Mutants & Masterminds system you are more then welcome! "

April 25 - 3:00pm
Eon Legacy- Edge of Forever "Countdown Zero"
Eon Legacy System
GM: Robert Rankin
Length: 2 Hours
Players 7
Hosted by Author, Robert Rankin, Eon Legacy is an easy to pick up and play Freeform Tabletop/Multiplatform RPG set in the future where the Multiverse has been discovered and a slew of wonderful aliens (and some nasty), legends, monsters and cyborgs from across reality come together. With a easy to play logic based combat system and various interaction options Eon Legacy is great for new and veteran RPGers.

Edge of Forever- Countdown Zero (Quick Play)
Hijacked! The "Kennedy 3" Orbital Mining Platform is CHARGING ITS LAZOR! It's the END! The seconds are ticking as the generators reach near critical while the weapon points towards Earth! It's up to you and your friends to stop the Hijackers and dump the generators before the planet gets it's crust impaled with a spear hot charged photon (not to mention wrecking of the ozone and probably baking two thirds of the population).
The good news: The team stopped the platform from reaching low orbit when you went to the bridge to take out the nasties up there! Now you're on the Mining Laser Platform just fifty yards short of the control panel.
The bad News: You have minutes to take out the guards and the Mastermind at the control console. The odds are against you and you're backup, UEDF Special Forces Shock Troopers, are busy trying to secure the Generator and Engine Rooms so you can scuttle the Power Cells before the big blast goes off!

April 25 - 8:00pm
 Safe Zone
Outbreak Undead
GM: Brett Lynams
Length: 4 hours
Players: 6
"They said it couldn't happen, but now the impossible is all around you. The Living Dead! Your city is overrun, the army has fallen back. And your tiny band of survivors is right in the heart of it. But you've heard of a Safe Zone; helicopters evacuating the living. But, the last chopper leaves in 24 hours. All you have to do is get there..
Outbreak Undead is a survival horror role-playing game. Come and play as any one of a dozen pre-made NPC's, or if you have attended our ""Can You Survive?"" pre-game, play as yourself and see if you can reach the Safe Zone. "

April 25 - 8:00pm
 Millinium's Soliders
Fate Core
GM: Chris Czerniak
Length: 4 hours
Players: 5
The future has been manipulated by the evil Dr. Krakeur and it is up to histories greatest heroes to go back in time to stop. Bruces Lee, Audie Murphy, Lord Byron head back to early 19th century England to stop the development of a super monster that could turn the tide of the Millennial War.

April 26 -10:00am
Extraction
Interface Zero 2.0 - Savage Worlds
Ron Tilton
4 hours
Players: 4
"Savage Saturday!
Come play Interface Zero 2.0 with the Equipment Writer. Interface Zero 2.0 is the fast-paced Cyberpunk setting by Gun Metal Games, using the Savage Worlds Deluxe rules.
Extraction: Where do you go when things goes sideways during an extraction?"

April 26 - 10:00am
Safe Zone
Outbreak Undead
GM: Brett Lynam
Length: 4 hours
Players: 6
"They said it couldn't happen, but now the impossible is all around you. The Living Dead! Your city is overrun, the army has fallen back. And your tiny band of survivors is right in the heart of it. But you've heard of a Safe Zone; helicopters evacuating the living. But, the last chopper leaves in 24 hours. All you have to do is get there..
Outbreak Undead is a survival horror role-playing game. Come and play as any one of a dozen pre-made NPC's, or if you have attended our ""Can You Survive?"" pre-game, play as yourself and see if you can reach the Safe Zone."

April 26 - 8:00pm
Slaves of Jupiter!
Danger Patrol
GM: Chris Blanchard
Length: 2 hours
Players: 5
Danger Patrol is a retro sci-fi action/adventure game designed for fast play with no prep. Earth has been destroyed by atomic war but a lot of humanity managed to flee to futuristic Rocket City. Built on Mars by millionaire scientist, Hamilton Hawks, Rocket City is a utopia of human achievement and science. As such it is, of course, constantly under threat by aliens, mad scientists, inter-dimensional horrors and the last vestiges of the human military complex. The players take on the roles of the defenders of this city (and the Solar System) and become the super-heroic Danger Patrol!

April 26 - 10:00pm
Hero City
Fiasco
GM: Chris Blanchard
Length: 2 hours
Players: 3
Welcome to Hero City. The place where super-heroes are born and made. And broken. If you ain’t careful here, this town will chew you up and spit you out. Capes fly fast and thick in these parts, and third stringers like you are a dime a dozen. If you can’t do something to make yourself stand out, ain’t no one in this burg that will care. Not Dr. Devastator and his legion Deathbots. Not the news media. And certainly not Captain Crusader and the Defenders of Justice. You gotta be willing to do whatever it takes to make it in this town. And watch out for everyone else in tights here, because they’re all trying to do the same damn thing.

April 26 - 8:00pm
Cries from the Dungeon
Dungeon World
GM: Chris Czerniak
Length: 4 hours
Players: 5
The War of Three Kings has ended and your prince is about to take the throne after his father lost his life in the final battle. But strange noises are coming from the dungeon and the princes is not saying anything about it.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Upcoming Events - April

Anime Conji is this weekend, followed by our Favorite...Kingdom Con. Check the events schedule tab for more information!

This is going to be a strange Kingdom Con for us, as it will be the first one Sean won't be with us; as he'll be in St. Louis for the FIRST Robotics Championship...Good luck Mission Hills High School #IronKodiaks

I will be running two RPG events,

Earthdawn "Murder in Bartertown" on Friday ( a Second Circle Murder mystery.) The war with Thera is over. But when the Theran ambassador is a murdered, it's up to a mixed team of Therans and Barsaivians to find out what really happened before hostilities resurface.

and

Interface Zero 2.0 "Extraction" on Savage Saturday! (The Czerniak Conglom needs a defector scientist extracted from Xaa-Korp.) Characters will be provided, but you'll need to acquire the gear you need for the extraction. Time is ticking...they're moving him sometime in next 24 hours, to a secret base.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Catch up - Dead Zone!

Well I'm actually feeling like my old self again. I've spent the last week going to bed early, and skipping the gym, due to the fact i had nearly pushed myself to the point of  exhaustion. Part of the problem was World of Tanks on XBox. Part of it was the exhaustion from the long days two weeks ago.

My creativity was at an all time low. Effectively I would come home, and plop down in from of the TV, turn on the Xbox, and play for a long time. I get into this mode occasionally, but I usually mix it with other things, art, gaming, the blog, all sorts of things, but this time it was bad.

Anyway, I'm feeling better, I'm rested, I'm gaming (played some Deadzone at At Ease tonight.We started a 4 game campaign. I started off by booby trapping +David Blood 's Poor rebels, not once, but twice with my Enforcer squad.)

DeadZone is a very interesting wargame. Using modular movement rules, with some relatively in depth but simple rules, the game operates very well without any measuring tapes. The rules work quite well for squad based games. The number of references (mission cards, battle cards, stat cards, equipment descriptions, ability descriptions, etc., while daunting at first, become much easier to track even after the first game.)

Monday, March 31, 2014

ARISE!! Epic RPG Blog...ARISE

Well after a couple weeks of excessive work. I'm starting to feel recovered. Last two week was Insane. 13 days of work totalling 107 hours. I needed this entire weekend to recover.

Now I'm feeling better.

I will be at Pair-a-Dice Games on Saturday from 12-9pm for International Tabletop Day!!

Come on down and get your GAME ON!!!

I will be there in my capacity as a Man In Black, I'm bringing all my fun games, Including Knightmare chess, which is coming back into print soon!

I hope to see you at Pair-a-Dice Games!!!

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