Star Trek PDQ#: Character Creation

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 [...]

Who wants to take this baby for a spin?

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 [...]

Non-gaming game fodder: Environmental Graffiti

Environmental Graffiti (“Seriously Awesome Environmental News”) is a blog I subscribe to for its interesting take on environmental news.  But it finally dawned on me that it also makes a fantastic source of visuals and setting ideas for role-playing games.  Seriously, browse a few articles — all of them are lavishly illustrated — and see [...]