My God, It's Full of Hair: One Night With Vast & Starlit

Please excuse the title of this post. You see, a couple of weeks back I played Vast & Starlit at Open RPG Night and V&S features a very interesting alien creation mechanic. It works (roughly) like this: Every player names an animal they are familiar with. Each player, in turn, picks one of the animals and singles out a defining feature. Another...

Categories: Open RPG Night, Review, Science Fiction, Vast and Starlit

Lasers & Feelings & Game Night

Last week my Open RPG Night played Lasers & Feelings (PDF Warning), the latest single page RPG from John Harper/One Seven Design. It's a swashbuckling, Star-Trek-esque game inspired by a song by The Doubleclicks. As is usual for one of Harper's games, it is an RPG boiled down to only the most necessary elements. I became aware of the game the...

Categories: Free RPG, John Harper, Lasers and Feelings, Open RPG Night, Science Fiction, session report

No good deed goes unpunished.

I recently mentioned how I had started an Open RPG Night in my city and that each week a random assortment of gamers assemble to play an arbitrarily chosen game. Last week that game was Dungeon World and this week a group of (mostly) different people chose to play Apocalypse World. This time around I wasn't in the GM's seat and I got to flex my...

Categories: Apocalypse World, Open RPG Night, session report

Indigo Galleons and Sea Ghouls

This is the 'cover' panel of the trifold. Last week I hosted the first weekly "Open RPG Night" in my city. I did so with the help of my local RPG Meetup group and while RSVPs were sparse at first, they came flying in during the last 24 hours or so. The group that assembled consisted of myself and one other RPG fanatic as well as a handful people...

Categories: Adventures, Dungeon World, John Aegard, Review

Chroma Team Revised

Regular readers of this blog may remember that my game, Chroma Team VS The Terrorlights, was a finalist in this year's Game Chef. I received a lot of good feedback and suggestions on the game and this weekend I sat down and started revising the game. You can view the current version of the game here, and I have kept the original Game Chef entry around for those curious about such things. The revised...

Categories: Chroma Team, Game Design, Kaiju, Sentai

Orc Name Generator

Today I add an Orc name generator to my list of name generators. The seeds for this one came from a list of notable Orcs from Lord of the Rings, Paizo's Orcs of Golarion and a list of notable Orcs of Mystara. The tribe/last names started with a list of words from the tribes of Mystara and Golarion and I expanded from ther...

Categories: fantasy, generators, js, names, orc

Once a mighty bastion against evil fell to diabolical treachery...

A while back J.D. Barnes put a call out to the RPG blogosphere to take a look at his latest project, a megadungeon meets small press zine called The Ruined Fortress of the Evil Overlord.  Normally I only look at PDFs here at Impossible Boulder, but Barnes is going back to basics with his foray into megadungeonry and that interests me. You might...

Categories: Adventure, megadungeon, Old School, Review, Ruined Fortress of the Evil Overlord, Wielding a Bohemian Earspoon

Game Chef 2013: Chroma Team reaches the finals!

The peer reviewing and nomination process for Game Chef 2013 is over and the finalists have been announced. The dust has settled and ten* games are going before the four expert judges and this year I am astounded to say that my entry is one of those ten. My goofy little game, that was written stealthily in the middle of the night whilst my wife slept...

Categories: Chroma Team, Game Chef, Game Chef 2013, Game Design

Obscure RPG Appreciation Day: Lone Wolf RPG (1989)

A little blog named Mesmerized By Sirens that focuses on obscure RPGs is running what they call Obscure RPG Appreciation Day and have challenged bloggers to post about a little known RPG. I have decided to join in the fun with this blog post. Did you know that a Lone Wolf RPG was published way back in 1989? Yes, I do mean the Lone Wolf of choose-your-own-adventure...

Categories: Lone Wolf, Lone Wolf RPG, Obscure RPG Appreciation Day, Project Aon