Obsidian Portal

Checking out this website right now. It doesn't look like it will work too well with the current campaign unless I flesh it out beyond my quicky planning job.

Game-A-Week: Dark Heresy

The first in a growing series of games based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe. This was originally released by Games Workshop's own Black Library, but after instantly selling out and rave reviews, Games Workshop closed their RPG development studio and sold off the game rights.

Game-A-Week: Pandemic

We picked this up thanks to our sponsors. This game was tough but fun.

Game-A-Week: Tour of Darkness

Imagine playing a front line soldier battling the Viet Kong out in the middle of Vietnam during the war. Pretty rough stakes right? What if things got a little weird. What if say, a pit of dead soldiers started begging you to save them only to stand up and attack you?

Game-A-Week: Arcana Evolved

I've covered Dungeons and Dragons as well as Iron Heroes. So now we get to Arcana Evolved. Which in a way is the opposite of Iron Heroes in that where Iron Heroes makes magic rare, Arcana Evolved makes it more prominent.

Game-A-Week: Ghostbusters

I love Ghostbusters. I love the comics. I love the movies. I love it all. This game is based on the D6 system popularized by the old Star Wars game by West End Games.

Game-A-Week: World of Darkness

Last week I covered Street Fighter from our game list, this week we're picking up with the basis of that system.

Game-A-Week: Street Fighter

No, not the video game. While I have been known to play a mean Street Fighter vs X-Men in my day, this is about the RPG. I have an unhealthy fascination with letting players duke it out whenever they have a disagreement. This game allows a safe and easy way to settle the who's tougher disputes.

Game-A-Week: Starship Troopers

This week we're hitting up an interesting game with a book, several movies and a CGI series based off of it.

Game-A-Week: X-Crawl

This one has always seemed interesting to me. The setting is kind of a cool twist on the standard dungeon crawl and turn it into a game show almost. Sort of like Smash TV (an extremely awesome video game).

Game-A-Week: Iron Heroes

 This next game is one that has always interested me. A low magic version of Dungeons and Dragons. Instead of magic we get different options for martial characters and a single magic using class.

Game-A-Week: Key to the Kingdom

This game is an adventure all in itself. You journey to 6 magic worlds in order to gain treasure and the Key to the Kingdom and escape while you can.

Game-A-Week: Dungeon Dice

First off, happy Pi Day everyone. Secondly, happy White Day to our Japanese follows.
This weeks game is Dungeon Dice. An older board game from way back in 1977, many years before any of our group was born.

Game-A-Week: Necessary Evil

This next one is part of a great series by Pinnacle Entertainment in their Savage Worlds game. There is a plot point campaign in the back that was updated in the Explorer's edition (this one goes to 11). There are also pregenerated characters included in the book.

Game-A-Week: Camp

We took a little break to play some board games after we finished up with Star Wars the other week. This is the first of the games we played: Camp.

Game-A-Week: Dungeons and Dragons

Finally we get to the big one. Dungeons and Dragons has pretty much been a large inspiration for most games and gamers for a long time, right up there with Tolkien (which, also was an inspiration for this). A favorite of mine, easy to run and fun to play. Generally agreeable to most people but the only trouble is figuring out what version people want to play.

Game-A-Week: Legend of the Burning Sands

This is another game I don't really own, but to make it a little harder on myself, it's technically not even it's own game. Legend of the Burning Sands is more of an expansion for Legend of the Five Rings (fourth edition).

Game-A-Week: 7th Sea

So this section is a little weird to write, since it's the first game on my list that I do not own. Rough I know, but I love Legend of the Five Rings and this game is stylistically similar. Made by the same people even.

Game-A-Week: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Power

This game is one from my childhood, long lost but I found a new copy for my friends and I to enjoy. Every one's favorite, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Power board game. I've had this one for a little while and just needed an excuse to bust it out.

Game-A-Week: Legend of the Five Rings

So this next game is one of my personal favorites. I have an almost complete collection of the first edition books and it was the first RPG I really got into. I had previously played Dungeon and Dragons (and Advanced) but never got into it as much as I did with this game.
I've also gotten the second and third editions for the game, but not as many books in my collection, nor do we really play them.