Last of the horribly past due OHW posts before I do my AmberCon US recap. I’m only a couple months behind. Seriously. =P
For this one, we had a rousing session of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. I’m not sure which edition the GM was using. I believe the newest.
One Hit Wonders: Wilderness of Mirrors
This is John Wick’s simple story-game intended to emulate the spy genre, trying to fix what he felt was wrong in other spy games.
Unlike everything else we’ve had for our One Hit Wonders, I’d actually played this game before. A couple times, actually. Once at GoPlay Northwest 2007 and again about a year ago when I was considering using this system to try and do an Amber style game. I’d submitted it to the AmberCon US game book as “Wilderness of Princes,” but no one signed up for it. But I did playtest it out to see how it worked, mainly to find that it didn’t work the way I’d wanted it to.
I’ve gotten way behind on writing these. Life has been a zoo lately. I feel particularly bad that we’ve had two games and I haven’t done any updates. It’s been a while since we played, so hopefully I get the details right. =P
Only took me a month. I blame NaNoWriMo. And laziness. This will be relatively brief since time has faded the crazy high I left the convention with and I don’t want this to be even later than it already is.
After a bit of a delay, we finally had another edition of One Hit Wonders, this time with Unknown Armies. I’ve wanted to play UA for a long, long time and I was glad I finally had the chance. Sorry it took so long to get this up. ACNW, combined with a busy work schedule and NaNoWriMo, meant my life has been a zoo.
Had our second installment in our series of “lets try these games we’ve always wondered about.” This time I was behind the GM’s screen running a game that’s always rated high on my list: Fading Suns. For this run we used the 2nd edition version of the rules which came out in 1999.
This last weekend, I had the first installment of what I’m call “One Hit Wonders.” It’s something I’ve tried once in the past and it died pretty quickly. The idea is just having a chance to try out games that you’ve always been curious about but have never been able to play. When I’ve tried it in the past it’s invariably been a little work intensive and hence contributed to it either failing or (when I’ve tried to get it going again) never starting in the first place.
This time around, I thought I’d try it with less work. No pre-gens. No rules summaries. Not necessarily even a lot of game prep outside of maybe reading through a sample adventure. There’d be some reading of the rules in advance to prepare, but otherwise we show up, make characters with whatever copies of the rules we have, and have a simple one-shot. Add beer and pretzels, and you’re good.
For this first run, the group chose Deadlands: Reloaded using the Savage Worlds system. Details behind the cut.
I’ve been thinking more about D&D4 since playing in the demo. Part of it inspired by posts by rob_donoghue and gloomforge. Some of it because I got to play another one-shot of D&D4 this week. Thoughts behind the cut.
Went to Go Play Northwest this weekend and played for four of the six slots. Report of how the weekend went and stuff behind the cut.
Another 4 days of gaming in beautiful and scenic Livonia, with very little sleep and eating very poorly. Comments on the games I played and other aspects of the con behind the cut.
