Posted: May 25, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: Campaigns, D&D 3.5, D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, Homebrew, Legacy D&D, Meta, Online Gaming, Other Hobby, Other Systems, RPG, Warhammer 40k |
I have had fairly strange interests in RPG games. My first roleplay experience was when I was ten at a freeform play-by-post forum. When I learned D&D 3.5, I was 14 and had nobody to play with. So I played it over MSN Messenger with some friends. Since then I’ve played a lot more maptools, chat games, and play-by-posts than real life stuff. I’ve always liked running the game with text. I think it lets you do some fun story stuff that you couldn’t do around a table because people don’t have the text they can go back to, manipulate, or take their time with. The way I play takes more time than a normal game, but I enjoy it, especially because I have limited time to allot to running games over Maptools or Google Hangouts. I can play more leisurely. Google Documents has been a big help hosting play by post stuff for me. So I thought I’d briefly discuss how I play on it.
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Posted: March 15, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: Legacy D&D, Meta, News, Other Hobby, Other Systems, Products, RPG |
This is tangentially related to tabletop RPGs, and it’s a kickstarter and everyone loves those, right? Well there’s a kickstarter up for a sequel to Wasteland, and you should probably give money to it if only so you can essentially steal a copy of what will likely be an incredible gaming masterpiece for only a paltry $15. Do you want a pizza or do you want Wasteland 2? You know you want Wasteland 2, don’t even answer that. Wasteland was a 1988 DOS/Apple II RPG that is the spiritual ancestor to Fallout, except instead of being full of goofy 50s aesthetics it’s got goofy 80s aesthetics, which in my opinion is exactly a million times better. The game has been entirely fan-funded now, but if you keep giving Mr. Fargo more of your money, the game can only get even better. There is no ceiling to the amount of money Wasteland 2 deserves. Here’s a blog with concept art.
(They also promised if they get the kickstarter up to 1.5 million dollars they’ll support Mac OS X. That would be great, so if you’ve got a Mac that isn’t boot camped, GIVE OUT YOUR MONEY.)
A lot of the trimmings of Fallout exist on some level in Wasteland, including nuclear annihilation, crazy post-apoc economics, moral choices, a sandbox world, crazy robots, and xenophobic technonudnicks. Wasteland never got a sequel because we live in an unjust world that actively hates us and our presence, so the team moved on to Fallout, and that was okay, because Fallout was great! But a sequel to Wasteland is just so much more exciting in every way. It is all the brainchild of this beautiful man. I played games like Ultima on old computers when I was younger and couldn’t afford the million dollars necessary to buy a Voodoo or a Rage 128 equipped PC and play “REAL GAMES.” I played a bit of Wasteland, and was pretty intrigued. So if you’re a fan of those cool old CRPGs with quirky settings and tons of choices and freedom of exploration, that came in huge boxes with gigantic manual tomes, poster maps, dialogue books and hint books, well here you go.
Posted: March 1, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: D&D, D&D 3.5, D&D 4e, Dark Heresy, Deathwatch, Legacy D&D, Meta, News, Other Hobby, Other Systems, Products, Rogue Trader, RPG, Warhammer 40k |
Today is DriveThruRPG’s GM’s day sale, which is typically their biggest sale of the year. This year it lasts a whole week, and has a nice countdown timer for you as well. I got some neat stuff from them on sales like this before, so if you like PDF’s I encourage you to check it out. What’s more, if you’re looking for one of the following products:
You can get 20% off by using the code: GeekLoveRules2012
So get out there and do some shopping! You might be interested in some products I’ve reviewed on DriveThruRPG in the past. See if perhaps they’re on sale, and maybe you’ll enjoy them too.
Posted: February 21, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: D&D 3.5, D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, Other Hobby, Other Systems, Products, RPG, Spirits Of Eden |
There are some who strongly object to Adelian ideology and traditions, regarding society, technology and much more. They believe technology should not be something feared, but fostered, and everyone should be willing to sacrifice for the development of greater technology. Worship and ritual should be discarded, in their eyes, as it is a useless protection, which magic and technology do not require. Rural tradition is stagnant, and industrialization and efficient labor placement would benefit all. From scraps of the Lost World’s lore came the ideals of the steam and fuel-driven Diesel Society, for whom total scientific efficiency should be acquired at all costs – technology is an end unto itself.
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Posted: February 14, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: Campaigns, D&D, D&D 3.5, D&D 4e, Legacy D&D, Other Hobby, Other Systems, RPG, Spirits Of Eden, Worldbuilding |
The expanded hex map of the World of Adel is complete. Read on for some idle talk and explanations about it.
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Posted: February 10, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: Card Games, Meta, Other Hobby, Other Systems, Products, RPG |
Wizard’s of the Coast and Hasbro released a Press Release today which I will not post or excerpt because it takes up too much space, but which you can read here. If you want to. I’ll give the finer points and some storytime right here. I played a lot of Duel Masters back when it was released. There’s the meme among people that Dennis hates tabletop games – he’s criticized practically every game under the sun, including the vaunted D&D (all kinds) and indie storygames, and yet he plays things like Dark Heresy, Maid: RPG and Sword Girls. Well you can add Duel Masters to that “list of things Dennis doesn’t hate for some reason.” In fact I REALLY like Duel Masters. However, given its previous history I have some cause for trepidation…
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