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make mine Marvel!
Poor Captain Marvel. The years have not been kind. It’s been a while since I ran a game, and since the New York Red Box crew is well-saturated with fantasy at this point (Tavis’s OD&D campaign,...
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dawn of the defenders
By the Book of the Vishanti! I am roused from my eternal sloth to compose a quick post on the Marvel Super Heroes game. I’ve been meaning to blog about Marvel Super Heroes generally, but I’ve been...
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rama-tut is awesome
Rama-Tut, by pre-crazy John Byrne I probably have several bloggable observations about the Marvel Super Heroes Role-Playing Game, but they require me to think lucidly. Instead I’d rather just post...
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Zolobachai’s Omnipotent Laxative
Arnold Littleworth, known far and wide as “Zolobachai of the Nine Visions,” has spent his time in the Nameless City gathering up spells which might be useful to the party in its explorations. Naturally...
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What Made for a Successful D&D Birthday Party
Strangely less popular among nine-year-old boys than the unicorn. This past weekend James and I ran a D&D birthday party for seven boys, all eight or nine years old. We had two and a half hours...
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spells for the after school class
Explanation: Tavis and I are running an after school Dungeons & Dragons program for some elementary school kids. Most of our prep consists of wishing we’d done more prep while on the subway to...
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the Doom Quest of Nightfang
The latest issue (#11) of Fight On! contains Doom Quest, a micro version of Rune Quest by Friend-of-the-Mule Scott LeMien. (Scott resisted my suggestion to name it Quest Quest, but otherwise it’s a...
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rick jones, sorcerer (pt 1)
“James,” no one asks, “where have you been? Why don’t you blog anymore?” I have been on an RPG bender, snorting powdered rule books, line after line of Gygaxian prose, until I’ve ruined my nasal...
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the binocular thief
The Thief, right? Nobody digs this class. Every blog and every forum has about 20 different variations on the Thief. Most of the complaints fall into three categories: The Thief is weak. You cannot...
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non-violence (and slime gods)
As convention season approaches, New York Red Box Charter Member E.T. Smith made an intriguing remark while musing about convention games: I barely even notice game descriptions [at conventions]...
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