Gamefest on Yahoo Groups In the NewsThe following post is an announcement received from Jenni Merrifield at VCON in Vancouver, BC. The convention sounds like a lot of fun! Hi! My name is Jenni Merrifield and I have recently taken over the role of Games Coordinator for VCON 34. I am sending out this message to gamers and gaming groups primarily [...]
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Here a funny item that science-fiction geeks will appreciate: the Time Traveler Essentials poster, which you should tape inside your time-machine. According to publisher Topataco: If you’re like us, you live in constant fear of slipping into a wormhole and getting spit out in the 13th century, and the only real useful knowledge you have [...]
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Sometimes, I can be a little scatterbrained. I posted the game summaries for Mark’s PDQ#-based Star Trek game, run on the Monday night Skype open games, but I forgot to post the character creation rules. Anyhow, here they are. The premise: the crew of the USS Resolute is the second-wave team, charged with establishing diplomatic [...]
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This is the third episode of Mark’s PDQ#-based Star Trek game, run on the Monday night Skype open games. The premise: the crew of the USS Resolute is the second-wave team, charged with establishing diplomatic relations and trade with suitable worlds that were recently visited by the Constitution-class ships like the USS Enterprise and the [...]
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This is the second episode of Mark’s PDQ#-based Star Trek game, run on the Monday night Skype open games. The premise: the crew of the USS Resolute is the second-wave team, charged with establishing diplomatic relations and trade with suitable worlds that were recently visited by the Constitution-class ships like the USS Enterprise and the [...]
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This is the first episode of Mark’s PDQ#-based Star Trek game, run on the Monday night Skype open games. The premise: the crew of the USS Resolute is the second-wave team, charged with establishing diplomatic relations and trade with suitable worlds that were recently visited by the Constitution-class ships like the USS Enterprise and the [...]
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At our Monday night Skype session, Mark has been running a Star Trek game set in the days of the original series, using the PDQ# system. Edit: Character creation rules are here. The premise: the crew of the USS Resolute is the second-wave team, charged with establishing diplomatic relations and trade with suitable worlds that [...]
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From EcoGeek.org, a resource I was mentioning recently: For the tenth year in a row, MIT students have designed a solar race car to compete in the World Solar Challenge, a seven-day, 2,000-mile race across Australia. This year’s model is called Eleanor and she crushes the stereotype that solar cars can only go slow. (Read [...]
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Another crazy night at the Thursday Night Open Games; we get not one but two hilarious recaps of the action, one from player Steve Schönberger and one from GM Rolfe Bergstrom. The premise: you’ve all seen the video TROOPS!, it’s been around for over a decade: an Imperial stormtrooper patrol unit, filmed in the style [...]
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Last weekend’s ConQuest NW was great fun, if exhausting. On Friday I played in the Mouse Guard RPG, and in the Once Upon A Time non-collectible card game. On Saturday I played in a role-playing game called Knights of the Road, Knights of the Rail, another RPG called In A Wicked Age, and a board [...]
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