To orient you if you're new to these pieces, I'm playing The Mecha Hack with my wife and son, and these are our session reports, along with my observations about the game. This Saturday we picked up where we left off a couple of weeks ago. (GM Dad just didn't have it in him last … Continue reading The Mecha Hack Actual Play Ep. 3: Bows & Curtsies
Picking up where we left off last week... Starian and Thumper came out of their simulated battle to discover that their lunar base was under attack. Since they were already suited up, they headed out of a rupture in their hangar and onto the edge of the battlefield. LEEROY JENKINS!!! In classic 7-year-old aggro fashion, … Continue reading The Mecha Hack Actual Play Ep. 2: Hard Lessons
I've often wondered when I'd open the door to the realm of in-game violence for our son. Up to now we've played RPGs that either don't have a combat system, or that just aren't about physical conflict. I've known for a long time I was going to hold off on introducing him to the play … Continue reading The Mecha Hack Actual Play Ep. 1: A Little Simulation
Hunh, turned into kind of a big week around here when I wasn't looking! Champions NOW, right now! So I guess it took a pandemic to do it, but you can find me on my first ever podcast this week. MadJay Brown and I have been whiling away our Tuesday nights in the seedy meta-human … Continue reading Weekly Round-up: My Podcast Premiere, BattleTech/The Mecha Hack, We Play How to Host a Dungeon
Now that we are home schooling and I'm working on getting the taxes done, there was very little time this week for much of anything. My wise wife says, "Write about what you're doing!" So here goes... a roundup of the week in my corner on the gaming cosmos... Roll20 FTW My regular group has … Continue reading Weekly Round-up: Wicked Mazes, D&D, Champions Now, & Deep Dungeon History
Greetings Dear Reader! Picture me shivering slightly in the outside office I mentioned last week. I'm very much regretting having lost my fingerless gloves. Didn't realize they'd become a mission-critical accoutrement! My thoughts are with our gaming brethren in NYC. I hope you are all safe, sane, and healthy. Fingers crossed when I say this, … Continue reading Playing Atlas Games’ Once Upon a Time with the Kid + embracing online gaming
This, thankfully, isn't another guide about what to do when you're isolating yourself, or a FAQ about Sheltering in Place. Nor is it batch of handy tips about how to educate your child now that they are with you 24/7. There are plenty of those already. Man, just so many. To the above I say, … Continue reading This Is How We Live Now
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