The Gaming Den

BESM d20 didn't go over well. The Tri Stat crowd didn't want it. Hell, the Tri Stat crowd didn't even want dX, much less a d20 game. That group of players (and I included myself as part of their team) didn't want something they perceived as a d20 cash grab. It didn't do any better on the d20 side of...

Game of Thrones is like a license to print money. But only if you can actually hire someone to work the printing presses. But the GoO game came out before anyone had ever heard of the franchise. I remember standing in Barnes and Noble, flipping through the deluxe edition of GoO's Game of Thrones RP...

3Ed BESM is a lot better than the older ones, but that isn't really saying anything. It was a roll-under system using 2d6 and without using houserules or supplements, you ended up with this scenario: Player: okay, my Attacking is 15, so I roll... 4, yep, I hit. DM: okay, its Defence is 14, so it ro...

Best anime I've seen lately is Space Battleship Yamato 2199. I'm still geeking out over it.

Maybe this is a non-sequitor given the discussion so far, but here goes. I've been thinking of running a Netrunner game. (I use Netrunner not as a brand name, but just as a generic descriptor.) I may be in a bit of a different situation because I'll only have one player and this will be a solely one...

When FF13 came out there was a lot of anti-JRPG stuff going on in the gaming press. I ascribed the negativity regarding FF13 as people just riding that wave. The complaints I heard sounded a lot like generic nonsensical complaints that were making the rounds against JRPGs. I convinced myself the nay...