Thinking Outside the Box

WARNING: If you intend to play adventures from "These Are the Voyages Vol. 1" stop reading now! Back in the summer of 2017 preorders were announced for a new roleplaying game series called  Star Trek Adventures , to be published by Modiphius . At the time I'd been playing with a regular group in a Dresden Files  campaign and had just begun running my first Mutants and Masterminds 3E  campaign as well. So when the Star Trek game was announced I was all over it and placed my order. The materials showed up in early September but I didn't have a chance to actually play until a few weeks ago, shortly after the release of the free quickstart rules.  After some posting around on Meetup, I found a group willing to give things a go. I ran the quickstart scenario for a group of 5 players and we had a great time. The rules definitely need a few reads through by whoever will be running the game as the task resolution, combat and the various actions available to the cha...

The other day I had a post pop up in my reading list from Matt. He'd done a survey that determines what kind of fantasy D&D character you would be. If you want to fill it out for yourself it's here:  http://www.easydamus.com/character.html . Give yourself a few minutes to answer all the questions, it's longer than you might expect. Interestingly enough, I've actually never played D&D, but I thought the exercise itself was rather interesting. Do I lean towards honour or evil, order or chaos? Can some random test written by another nerd on the internet help me answer these gripping questions...? Here are the results from my survey. I Am A: Neutral Good Human Ranger (4th Level) Ability Scores: Strength- 13 Dexterity- 12 Constitution- 12 Intelligence- 16 Wisdom- 15 Charisma- 15 Alignment: Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not ...

Yesterday afternoon a few people dropped by to try out a role-playing session. It's been at least six months or longer since we played any RPGs. That would have been a session of Savage Worlds using a modern horror one-sheet adventure. We didn't finish the adventure, but it seemed to go well. The biggest issue with playing a role-playing game is that someone needs to be the game master. Invariably that would be me. However on this occasion Collin had something we were going to try; the Mythic RPG game master emulator. We were going to try using the emulator to play without a GM, and decided to use the new DC Adventures (based on Mutants and Masterminds) to play it. We had four players and used pre-made character sheets for Green Arrow, Nightwing, Mister Miracle and John Constantine. As the adventure played out we ran into mystical barriers, shape shifting cultists, Barbara Gordon and were successful in stopping a nefarious plot at the Gotham Museum of Modern Art. After ...