Alea iacta est

For such a group of people known for following one system or another and insist on a logical system of rules that make sense, gamers are a superstitious bunch.  For all that we argue with the GM about how something wor[...]
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Starting Over…

Just like the rest of life, sometimes it’s time for a do-over. Thus begins a new chapter in the life of Moebius Adventures (MARPG) games. Image via Wikipedia Here’s the scoop. We have a streamlined sys[...]
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Star Wars, Kira Keldav – Writing Home

   Here we have a small item from one of the Star Wars players…    Hey Sabrina;    This is Kira, your little brother! For all I know, you and the rest have probably written me off as dead after the destructio[...]
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Star Wars Session IV

   For the convenience of those players doing character-viewpoint writeups, here’s a basic summary of session four…    Session four started off with the party divided:    Kira, Khadim, and 10-CH had sta[...]
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Crosslink Updates

   Continuing with catching up on the indexing, here we have a selection of links to some of the player blogs – and the materials they’ve come up with.    Star Wars d6: Alys Diary: Session II, Session II[...]
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Making the Most of Mythic Structure – GamesU 2009

In this session from GamesU 2009, accomplished game designer and screenwriter Matthew Grau discusses the monomyth and how to use it to create epic and enduring stories in your games. Popularized by Joseph Campbell in hi[...]
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It’s Called Tabletop Gaming Not “Rebooting My Laptop” Gaming

Watching my fellow players and their fixation with technology in the past months has got me thinking quite a bit about the place of technology at the gaming table. They use their iPhones to store their character stats, r[...]
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The View from My Chair: Who owns the Universe?

My attention was directed to this video today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoc3roT81nU This got me thinking, when it comes to the Universe created by one individual but loved by a very large group of fans, who actually[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 3

   Here we have another player log submission for the Star Wars game. As always, such submissions are worth bonus experience points. – in this case, of course, for Kira Keldav.    We returned to the planet of [...]
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Star Wars: Episode 3, Session 2

   Here we have another player-prospective segment of campaign log for the Star Wars game. It’s always revealing to compare two different player logs for the same session… In any case, like pretty much any game[...]
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The opening crawl, the perfect campaign intro

As a Level 1 GM, I have not had the opportunity for much table time as a player. So I think I have witnessed three campaign intros at the most in-person, two done by experienced people. Everyone basically had the same so[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session Two

   Here we have one character’s view of the events of the second Star Wars session with only one small edit.    After coming to the surface at the end of the second day, we took stock of the situation.  I wan[...]
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WotC cancels the Star Wars RPG!

It is official, as of May this year, D20 is dead. WotC’s Star Wars was the last big d20 title still in production.  Unfortunately, WotC has announced that they won’t be renewing their Star Wars license with Luca[...]
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Well done, my young apprentice

Every do often I talk about my own methods, but a lot of them tend to be of the game mechanics sort. It has been a fair while since I talked about what happens at the table. Or rather, what happens before we get to the [...]
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Playing the ‘bad guys’

So, consider this. You have a group of five guys. A pilot, a scout, a highly connected noble, a sniper and a natural leader, all Imperial stormtroopers. They begin their story on a dropship, being dropped off on some pla[...]
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The Cerulean campaigns (Part 2): Twenty years into the future:

Now that I have finished the last campaign, The Threat of Peace, I can now reveal a few details about how this and my Rebellion-era campaign are connected. But first, why did I decide to go back?  Back to Cerulea  Well[...]
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My Fantasy Library: Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover

A little over a year ago, my little boy discovered Star Wars. Cool! The neat thing was, that I got to experience the movies, all over again, through his eyes. It rekindled my affection for George Lucas’ universe and as[...]
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Thundarr The Barbarian: Secret of the Black Pearl…

Post-apocalyptic zaniness from '80s Saturday morning kids cartoon Thundarr The Barbarian. Two thousand years after an extinction-level event destroyed life on Earth a new world has arisen combining magic and super scienc[...]
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Secrets of the Sith – Biowarfare

   Self-reproducing biological weapons are, in many ways, the poor man’s Death Star. You can not only render a planet near-useless and virtually uninhabitable, but you can – with only a little luck – [...]
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Requiem for a Jedi Master

It was an emotional night, Sunday night. We finished the campaign, toasted the end of the Republic, saw the untimely death of a boss…and I almost cried when my favourite Jedi died. Yes, you heard me correctly, Mast[...]
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A linkdump far far away…

I've been reading a bunch of West End Games Star Wars books of late, and I've found a couple of useful links that I want to share.How big is the Star Wars Galaxy, and how come we keep coming back to the same damn worlds[...]
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Using the cart and not the horse

I feel that I have to open with an apology. Firstly, the lack of posts recently does not have any relation to my continued laments for lack of real gaming (more on that later) but for the simple reason that I purchased�[...]
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Star Wars – Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav: Session 1

After yet another daring escape ahead of the authorities and large amounts of property damage, we were back in space again on our ship. At least for the moment, the drive system starting making an odd noise and Handell[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Memories of Home

   Here we have another (somewhat tweaked) item from the player of Kira Keldav – who is also kindly helping fill in for me while I’m away and may not have internet access.    My brother says “If you do [...]
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Star Wars – Keldav Family and Friends Background 2

Old Republic Alderaan Crevasse City Marcus and Ceren Keldav met at a botanical exhibition on Alderaan. Marcus was an artist specializing in grass painting, having inherited a landscaping business from his father and wa[...]
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Star Wars – Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – The Paradox

My sister is the analytical one, not me. Sadly, she did hammer into me many lessons on the proper use of logic. Because of that, I now get this annoying sensation in the back of my mind whenever I get a great idea. T[...]
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Star Wars – Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Memories of Home

   Since I’ll be away the next few days, and may or may not be able to add anything here, here’s an edited bit of character musing from one of the current players…    My brother says “If you d[...]
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Alternative Force-Users – The Hedi

   Anger. Fear. Hatred. These lead to the Dark Side.    Using the Force while in the grip of such emotions will swiftly corrupt a force-sensitive – greatly amplifying such mental patterns and eventually burning[...]
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This Hobby Is Not a One-Way Relationship

With regards to WotC promotional content for 4e, most attention is given to the tease content for D&D insider, the podcasts, and recorded features of actual play sessions. However, WotC recently posted a half-hour s[...]
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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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Railroad tracks or hyperspace lanes

Since it’s been commented on fairly recently, I thought I would put my two credits worth in on the GM Fiat: railroading. Related to railroading is its opposite: improvisation. And, like the way of so many paradoxes[...]
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The Cerulean campaigns: (Part 1) Moving the game to make a vehicle

This is going to be another series of blog posts, but unlike the others which were updated when I had the time to write them, these are going to be updated as I reveal details to the players. It’s also may be a [...]
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Star Wars – The Keldav Family Background

   Here we have something from one of the players for the upcoming Star Wars game…    Marcus Keldav (age 48)    Marcus is the son of a mediocre landscaper that has managed to take his father’s business [...]
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Star Wars: The Essential Atlas

Star Wars: The Essential Atlas is a softcover, coffee-table-style book that covers every Star Wars era from the pre-Republic days of the alien and powerful Celestials (who constructed the Corellia system) through the Sit[...]
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january 2009 for my girlfriend is a dm

My apologies for the lack of updates. We’ve been off to a slower start than expected due to scheduling hassles. Right now bits and pieces for various posts are lying in paper scraps stuffed in my wallet. Anyway, pe[...]
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Star Wars – Alys Nere, Noble Huntswoman

   Alys is a daughter of the Nere family, which has held high positions in Coruscant’s judicial system for centuries. For most of her childhood, she was an ordinary upper-class girl, pursuing typical interests. T[...]
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A new decade really begins for some more gaming

Well, it’s after Australia Day and pretty much the end of the silly season where you run into so many public holidays. And this week, I knew that it was time to get off my backside in terms of sorting out my real t[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – The Anti-Force

   Here we have something from Brian, one of the usual players – some of the notes and musings of his current Star Wars character, Kira Keldav.    Things in my experience typically exist in some sort of balance[...]
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The Greatest Phantom Menace Review Ever

You'll forgive me if this is outside my normal purview, but this is the single-best critique of a movie--and all its faults--I've seen in a long while.That's actually Part I of a 7-part review (find the other parts here,[...]
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Intriguing, but with little substance

Some time ago, I promised a review on the latest and now second-to-last book released by Wizards of the Coast, Galaxy of Intrigue. This is a rather new thing for me, though I would like to do this for all of the books, [...]
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Star Wars – Lazlo Milvago

   Here we have a version of a proposed character for the upcoming Star Wars game – Lazlo Milvago. In this case there’s been some background tinkering to make the characters contacts fit in with the settin[...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Wizards No Longer Feels The Force: Wizards of The Coast blames the state of the economy for its decision to drop its license to produce Star Wars roleplaying[...]
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One jump ahead

It’s taken a few weeks, but my online campaign is finally going somewhere. I’m also starting to get the hang of GMing online. One of the keys to a good game, and many other things, is momenum. The trick with [...]
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Star Wars Cloaking Technologies

   Invisibility is one of the most hotly-desired technologies of all time.    OK, people may want magic wishing devices, ever-full purses, and similar items, even more – but no one even pretends that they’re [...]
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Wizards drop Star wars!

Wizards Announcement here It’s official, Wizards of the coast have confirmed that they will not renew the star wars license in May. WOTC will no longer sell the books or their miniatures after august. Eh? WhatR[...]
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And hope they don’t have blasters

The news is that WotC wont renew their Star Wars license, which means no new Star Wars RPG or mini products, for a little while at least.  I can't say this bothers me at all.  I never picked up or played the sa[...]
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Friday Discussion: End of the Star Wars License

Well, it looks like after a good run, Wizards of the Coast will not be renewing the Star Wars license with Lucasfilm. Both the minis and RPG lines will go away, with the license officially ending this May.The license ha[...]
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The Force will be with us, always…

If you haven’t heard the news yet, allow me to be the one to break it to you. Wizards of the Coast announced earlier today that they would be not be renewing the license for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game or the [...]
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The Nightraptor, a Kiropsten-Class Light Transport

   De’arc was pretty pretentious: he named his ship the “Nightraptor”. While that is following in an old tradition – the less notable the ship, the more dramatic the name – it’s prob[...]
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Handell Awdi Tiend – Pilot

   Handell Awdi Tiend sien Ardatha Koroth Tiend had been knocking around the galaxy for quite awhile. He’d piloted quite a few ships, gotten into and out of trouble, and seen a lot of things. He’d never paid much a[...]
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