The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) The Vorpal Blade Went Snicker-Snack: Timed perfectly to coincide with Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, Skirmisher Publishing has released an OGL roleplaying[...]
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Tower Bridge Is Fallin’ Down, Fallin’ Down, Fallin’ Down…

Last night's Top Secret S.I. session nearly ended in total disaster - with the possible destruction of a major London landmark. But I'm getting ahead of myself.Picking up from the end of the previous episode, which saw N[...]
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A Much Belated Runepunk Review

I finally had the chance to pick a copy of Runepunk from Reality Blurs and its pretty good. In case you don’t know they’re the folks who gave us such Savage greats as Realms of Cthulhu and the upcoming Agents[...]
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Weekend Breakdown

Blimey, I had a busy weekend of gaming and gaming-related activity. In particular order — that is, chronologically sorted and neatly placed in nested lists — this weekend, I: Carb and protein and fat and oil[...]
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Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 02 Episode 09

Stu, Stork and Tappy discuss listener email, a few qualities of great players, DnD4e Martial Power 2 and Player’s Handbook 3. Featured song: The Man Who Doesn’t Like Beer, by the Poxy Boggards, featured on Li[...]
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Structure is Essential to Design

Since beginning Free Spacer, I have found one process more useful than any other; Organisation or Structure. The structure of the work has a much greater effect on my ability to write or design it then I would have ever [...]
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Get Well, Cheyenne

It’s been a crazy week for me and a bunch of projects didn’t get done but not as bad as Cheyenne Wright’s. I heard over at the PEG forums that he’s in the hospital and the doctor’s are scrat[...]
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Now An Official Savage Worlds Publisher

Today we are very proud to announce that Nevermet Press has been given permission from Pinnacle Entertainment Group to produce gaming products built using the Savage Worlds game system. In other-words, we are now an Off[...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Post-Apocalyptic Partnership: Radioactive Ape Designs has teamed up with Cubicle 7 in a partnership that will see their popular Mad Max-style role-playing pd[...]
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The Week In Geek…

A weekly round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Over The Rainbow: One of my favourite zompocalypse mini manfacuturers, Studio Miniatures, has released details of this year's first pack of "survivors[...]
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Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 02 Episode 06

Welcome to Season 02 Episode 06: Player vs. Player conflict. Your hosts: Stu and Stork. Links mentioned: We Are Douchebags. A series of old Dragon Magazine articles about gamemastering. Thanks to Jason for the link. Feat[...]
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Pyschics For Savage Worlds

It’s been a long time since I posted anything substantial for Savage Worlds. But that doesn’t mean my hands have been idle. I’ve had this idea to run sort of Supernatural/World of Darkness Monster Hunt[...]
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The Day After Ragnarok

The death of Patton ushered in chaos, as the Third Reich used ancient rituals to awaken the Midgard Serpent, and signaled the beginning of Ragnarok from Norse mythology. Americans, not about to be put down by a giant, wo[...]
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Psst! Department 7 Needs You!

A message from Department 7...Department 7, Cubicle 7 Entertainment’s official demo team, is recruiting. We’re looking to strengthen our demo teams with people interested in running, and teaching, our games at conve[...]
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The Week In Geek…

Blue Monday Special: A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Mega-Bundle Help For Haiti: DriveThruRPG is offering gamers over $1,000-worth of pdfs for $20 which will go straight to Doctors Without [...]
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Creeping up on sentries

We all make mistakes while gaming. I've made plenty. There are times where craziness happens, or where one mistake leads to another. Hindsight is 20/20, and sometimes all you can do about it is learn not to make the same[...]
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What Does the Gaming Future Look Like for Conan Fans?

There has recently been some discussion at The Cimmerian and on the Savage Worlds gaming boards regarding the news that Mongoose Publishing's license to produce Conan related roleplaying game material will expire later t[...]
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Savage Wild ARMS – Filgaia

Filgaia serves as the world for the Wild ARMS setting. A wasteland world, Filgaia is a planet teetering at the brink of an ecological disaster.  Battered by an ancient war, most of the planet is now dry desert and rock,[...]
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Check out the Black Orifice

If you haven’t been by the Pinnacle Forums and seen the posts by the guys of The Black Orifice (Nigel McClelland and Ben Redmond), you need to go there. They already have some really neat freebie settings up. The[...]
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Is Filmation’s Old Series “Flash Gordon” Done Right?

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Steven gave me The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - The Complete Series DVD for my birthday.He meant it as a gag gift. We have an ongoing, "let's watch bad stuff, ridicule it, and see ju[...]
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Savage Wild ARMS?

Now that I’m looking at the possibility of running a game in the Wild ARMS-ish setting I’ve got in my head, I’ve been considering what other systems I could use for running it.  It was suggested to me [...]
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Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 02 Episode 02

A post-game-day episode! Your hosts: Stu, Stork, Bruce, Claire, Casey. Listener Feedback. More discussion about co-GMs & assistant GMs (thanks to Paul for the voicemail). Our impressions of Savage Worlds (after actua[...]
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Happy Third Anniversary, HeroPress!!!

Three years! Who'd have thought it? Not me, for one. After my first two aborted attempts at a HeroPress blog (the first cruelly assassinated by its service provider and the second exploding from its own internal angst), [...]
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Underappreciated SF/Fantasy Authors

Yesterday's post regarding Clark Ashton Smith, and his relative obscurity in the minds of the "average" citizen, got my subconscious mind percolating thinking about other authors that I enjoy. These are the kinds of aut[...]
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Savage Boomerang

I have a player in my irregular Savage Worlds fantasy campaign whose character uses a boomerang. Just for flavor reasons, the boomerang is her main weapon. I think it's rather cool, in a Road Warrior sort of way.In the p[...]
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What happened to Shaintar?

I was trying to enter some of the items I own from Shaintar into the RPG Geek database and wanted to get a couple of product descriptions (e.g., the Shaintar Atlas), so I started looking for Talisman Studios, Shaintar, e[...]
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Best & Worst of Gaming 2009 [Part 4]

So, this is the last part of my look back at 2009. I won’t bore you with stories from the past from now on, because we live in the future now! Thanks again for Zach from RPG Blog II, who had posted his “Best & W[...]
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Obligatory New Years Post, Part Deux: 2010 Forecast

After giving 2009 a fond farewell (and middle finger), it’s time to look ahead with a raised chin (and middle finger) to 2010. Definite Tabletop Forecast for 2010: My Dungeons & Dragons 4E campaign is coming [...]
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Savage Words of Wisdom: Let it Be.

So, I’ve been gushing Savage Worlds fanboyism as of late. I’m totally digging the rules, and I am convinced that with enough elbow grease the rules are a perfect spring board to run just about anything you ca[...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Virtual Fun Gets Solid: The multi-talented Felicia Day and Dark Horse Comics bring her popular online series, The Guild, to comic book format in March with a[...]
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Review: Shambles

Shambles is what I’d call an interesting idea (and a terrible one, as the game’s cover notes).  Zombies are the stuff of campfire legends and blockbuster films, as well as many a roleplaying game.  Usually,[...]
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Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 01 Episode 21

Savage Worlds pre-game review. Adament Entertainment’s Thrilling Tales 2nd Edition (Savage Worlds). Listener Kevin’s Simulated Pulp Hero Experience (SPHerE) Wiki. Featured song: Laser Printed Hero (complete).[...]
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Two Gamers, Looking Back at 09.

What follows is a casual conversation between myself and Mike Fernandez (aka Kaeosdad) as we take a look back at some of our gaming experiences in 2009. 4th Edition in 09: Rev. Lazaro: So, I’m working on sort of a [...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) A Dungeon Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas: The latest updated version of Greyhawk Grognard's Castle Of The Mad Archmage (his 'olde school' tribute to the[...]
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Afternoon Gaming with “Silent Night, Hungry Night”

This is the second post in a re-cap of last week’s Deadlands: Reloaded afternoon sessions. In my last post, I quickly went over our trio of quirky adventurers and gave the run-down of our play through of the “[...]
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Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 01 Episode 20

Pitfalls of character optimization. Cardstock Characters: MILFs (Monster’s I’d Like to F*ck) — ie, Monsters w/ boobies. Savage Worlds More about Munchkins than you ever wanted to know. A big “tha[...]
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Afternoon Gaming with “House Call”

So, as luck should have it, I was able to run a couple afternoon gaming sessions this week thanks in part to the semester coming to an end at our local university, thus freeing up some schedules for a couple friends of m[...]
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Savage Worlds Winner(s) Announced!

Well, blame my clumsy hands for the predicament! I collected all the names and entries for my give away, listed them in the order they were received from the various sites, and I numbered each one. Came out with 25 entri[...]
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Iridia Zine And The Lincoln Middle School D&D Club

A few months back I discovered destination unknown, an RPG blog by Christian Walker.  I was particularly intrigued by Christian’s games-for-prisoners program.  In short, he gets game material (mainstream and indi[...]
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Tweaking the lethality of Savage Worlds

Thanks to Garlick for asking this question. Normally I respond to folks but in this case I think the topic deserves a whole post. The first thing GM’s should look at is the Economy of Bennies. How many you or don&[...]
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Fantasy Companion Bullets

More than a month ago, I picked up the Savage Worlds Fantasy Companion, and recently used elements from several chapters for my thanksgiving gaming, so I'm pretty familiar with the book now.Here's my point-by-point obser[...]
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Review: Savage Worlds Freeport Companion

This review is part of the Game Crier Gift Guide.  There are a lot of excellent games out there, and the Gift Guide can help you find some new ones to play.  Head on over and visit the other blogs to see what appeals.�[...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) State Of The Mongoose: Matt Sprange delivers his annual summation of what's going on at Mongoose Publishing and the companies exciting plans for the future. [...]
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Rewiring your brain to Savage Worlds

It’s been a long time since I blogged about Savage Worlds. So I figured I’d start with some good advice to new GM’s and players. Basically, you need to rewire your brain. Savage Worlds is a great game[...]
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Giving into the Cult of Savage Worlds

Yes, I gave in. It took long enough I suppose.  I’ve tried to resist your damn sermons, I’ve ran from your converts and at some point I contemplated pouring salt around my house. Your followers came out of t[...]
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Tehran: Nest of Spies releases 11/30

If there was a downside to The Day After Ragnarok it's that there just wasn't enough of it. I loved the book, and there's certainly enough there to run a campaign or three, but I wish there was more. In the very near fut[...]
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Cyberpunk!

Inspired by Triple Ace Games’ cyberpunk rules I would love to write a Cyberpunk setting of my own, but alas I can’t decide what kind of setting I would prefer. First off, there’s classic cyberpunk like the wo[...]
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Review: Thrilling Tales

I seem to be doing a lot of reviews lately…  I guess that’s what happens when I get offered review copies.  Check back here on Friday morning around 8pm EST for my review of Secrets of Pact Magic for Atomic[...]
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Freebie: Daring Tales of the Sprawl Cyberpunk rules

In October Triple Ace Games released a free cyberpunk rules supplement for Savage Worlds that is intended to be used with their “Daring Tales of the Sprawls” adventure line. But from what I’ve seen the rules can ea[...]
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Reality Blurs Following in Paizo Footsteps with Agents of Oblivion Beta

While the news isn't new, it is well worth repeating. This past June, Reality Blurs announced they were releasing a pdf of the Beta version of their Agents of Oblivion Player's Guide for the Savage World's game system.T[...]
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