First Impressions: The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries

I finally got a chance to sit down with my local gaming group last night and play The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries last night. My first impression is "Wow!" All of us were brand new to the game with 6 players total (it's a GM-less game). Only I had read the rules prior to the session. Within an hour we had generated our characters and finished the outline of our adventure. I decided to play "Sin Jin Lee, Kung Fu master."… Continue

Posted by MJ Harnish on May 12th, 2008 at 3:53am — 2 Comments

Skype gaming and stuff

Things played since last time: Tsoy with local skype group Polaris - JC, Joey and Filip. Never thought Polaris has that much rules and things to learn. It took about two hours to grok them and only JC played it before and had a book. The rest was a bit o Polish humor and a game. We skipped a few details because of fast forward mode(not enough time to really get into every scene) but still there was some emotional impact. Other: Made pierogi(taste great!) and change the video in Punk-as-fuck-gam… Continue

Posted by lowbrowgames on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:43am — 5 Comments

Star Wars Episode 50 part 2 is up

The 33rd episode of Canon Puncture is up on the feed. This is the second part of the Star Wars PTA game I played at GenCon '07 with Judd Karlman, Paul Tevis, Mick Bradley and Daniel Perez. http://canonpuncture.blogspot.com

Posted by Orklord on April 28th, 2008 at 11:07pm

Recommended Reading

There are a lot of great books, articles, forum posts, and blogs out there that anyone who is interested in crafting their skills at being a GM and/or player should read. Unfortunately a lot of them are not on most people's radar. I thus offer up the following "must read" list for anyone interested in becoming a better GM or player.

• Play Unsafe by Graham Walmsley - practical advice on how to apply improv techniques to RPG gaming. It's a
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Posted by MJ Harnish on April 28th, 2008 at 3:07pm — 2 Comments

What's new?

Let's see. There was this imho first session on Pixels & Polyhedrons. We played Trollbabe. The game was fun and kinda strong in the scenes and choices. To sum it up - it was fucking hardcore, man. Pictures of Novalyne(trollbabe I've played) soon. Another news - I change the video in Punk-As-Fuck-Games to highlight another suicidal punk hero - Darby Crash from The Germs.

Posted by lowbrowgames on April 26th, 2008 at 3:19pm — 3 Comments