Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 24, 2008 by kedamono

 
From all of us at the Emerald City Gamefest to you our friends and fans, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, or just plain old Happy Holidays!

Here’s to getting what you want under the tree, the latest game or spiffy dice set. To being with friends and family, with those that you love.
Merry [...]

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New Column: Why We Game by Richard Tucholka

Posted on December 16, 2008 by kedamono

My good friend, Richard Tucholka, wrote a guest column about why people play RPGs and other games: Why We Game. I first met Richard Tucholka about 20 years ago at an Order of Liebowitz game night at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. There I really learned the craft of being a GM under his tutelage.
And there [...]

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Articles and reviews

Posted on December 14, 2008 by gamefest

Still working on the Website facelift, we’ve consolidated a lot of the game-related articles and reviews we had posted in the last few years into one convenient location. You can find them listed in the Articles section, and of course you can browse the tags and categories in the left sidebar. Don’t hesitate to [...]

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Conquest NW deadline approaching

Posted on December 13, 2008 by Edmund Metheny

Just a reminder to everyone that the deadline to get free registration by running games at Conquest NW is fast approaching. Get your games in soon!
From the Conquest NW website -
QUALIFYING FOR FREE ADMISSION TO THE CONVENTION:
(1) You must submit a game before December 15, 2008. No exceptions.
(2) It must be approved and published [...]

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Savage Incursion: I Hate Space…

Posted on December 10, 2008 by kedamono

The following are the logs of my Savage Incursion campaign: I Hate 

Space. It is a Savage Worlds conversion of the Tri Tac Games RPG Incursion.
This log is the first session, where the players find that they are screwed and that the aliens are, well, not on the bright side. So of course, this first log [...]

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Latest episode of the Shastapsh Chronicles

Posted on December 9, 2008 by kedamono

Kevin Smyth and his Red Captains again fight the good fight in the skies of Mars with their latest episode of the Shastapsh Chronicles: Flight from Shastapsh: The Campaign Begins, a Sky Galleons of Mars campaign.
I played this scenario before at a Dragonflight convention, I don’t remember which one. This was fun as the British [...]

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Our home on FaceBook

Posted on December 7, 2008 by markwalt

Emerald City Gamefest has a presence on FaceBook. Check out our FaceBook group, and become a fan of our new Facebook page.

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New Column for the ECGF: About Game Design

Posted on December 6, 2008 by kedamono

Announcing a new column on the Emerald City Gamefest Web site: About Game Design. This column is not a guide to game design, but more along the lines of the philosophy of game design, with some “how-to-do-its” and not a little bit of practical advice for would-be game designers or even more experienced ones.
The author, [...]

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