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Critical Miss: When Game Day Becomes Bed Day
Normally, this is the post where I’d be coming down from the high of CanGames—talking about the games I ran, the ones I played, and laying out a spread of loot like some kind of dice-fueled dragon showing off its hoard. There’d be photos, a few impulse buys I’d justify as “essential,” and probably a story or two about something going hilariously off the rails at the table. That’s not this…
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Game On: A Week of Mayhem by Malls & Mutants
Game On: A Week of Mayhem
Days Gone, Again—and What Comes Next
There’s something oddly satisfying about finishing a game for the second time—especially one that didn’t just hold up, but actually felt richer on the replay. That was my experience wrapping up Days Gone Remastered on the PlayStation this past week. The first time through, the game was all tension and discovery. Every encounter with a horde felt like barely controlled chaos, every fuel stop a…
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Cold Snap at CanGames 2016
When the Mission Froze Solid There are convention games that run smoothly, hit their beats, and wrap up on time. And then there are the ones that bite back. Cold Snap was the latter. I brought this Cyborg Commando scenario to CanGames 2016 with a simple premise. Insert a team into the frozen ruins of Northern Ontario. Give them a clear objective. Let the environment do half the work. What I…
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The Plague That Walks at Night — A CanGames Session
(Part II) A Night at the Inn, A Day of PlanningA Savage Worlds: Solomon Kane Session at CanGames After a brief break—whether for smoke, air, or simply to steady ourselves—the session resumed with a sense that something had shifted. The tension we had left behind at the inn had not dissipated. If anything, it had sharpened. My notes delve into more chicken scratches as I guess I was writing…
The Plague That Walks at Night — A CanGames Session
The Violet Sea and the Inn at CorsicaSession Notes from a Savage Worlds: Solomon Kane Game I recently came across some notes from a game session that, in hindsight, captured exactly the kind of grim, creeping dread that makes Solomon Kane such a compelling setting. Rather than leave them as rough scribbles, I’ve pulled them together here as a proper recounting of the evening’s events. Our party…
The Adventure Waits: Two Months Until CanGames
Mark running his homebrew game of “Lucidity” at Cangames CanGames is now just a little over two months away, which means convention season is starting to feel real again. The calendar creeps closer, and the thoughts of dice, character sheets, and a table full of players begin to take up more space in my head. With that in mind, I pulled out the adventure I plan to run this year and gave it a…
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This Week in Gaming
It’s been a good mix of video games and tabletop gaming this week, with a little prep work happening in the background as well. On the video game side, I’ve gone back to Mass Effect Andromeda once again while waiting for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to arrive. Fallen Order did show up the other day, but I’m sticking with Andromeda until I finish it (again) before moving on. There’s something…
