Last year, Games Workshop released Kill Team, a skirmish game set in the world of Warhammer 40,000. It has solid rules that should be familiar to anyone who has played Warhammer 40,000 and uses the same miniatures, but it suffers from a product line with limited availability. The core Kill Team rules are derived from … Continue reading Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team
Age of Terror: Diablo Backgrounds
You can download a pdf version of this post here. The world of Sanctuary is home to a wide variety of cultures, each with their own heroes, but its residents are all humans. When creating a character for Age of Terror, you do not use the normal Race and Background options from Fantasy Age. Instead, … Continue reading Age of Terror: Diablo Backgrounds
Fantasy Age of Terror
I started work on modifying the Dragon Age RPG to run a campaign set in the world of Diablo years ago (apparently 7 years ago...). I never managed to run the campaign, but I had a lot of fun writing the conversions and thinking through how to use one of my favorite role-playing game systems … Continue reading Fantasy Age of Terror
Monsters of Feyland
Monsters of Feyland is a collection of monsters from Cawood Publishing for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Its cover caught my eye while I was browsing DriveThruRPG recently and after taking a look at the preview, I decided to buy it. The book is 112 pages and contains about 100 monsters. Each monster has a … Continue reading Monsters of Feyland
Into the Dark Imperium
Warlords I first played 40k when I was in high school and played space marines and dark eldar against the other guys in my boy scout troop. Then I went off to college, and my armies stayed packed in boxes for years. A few years ago, I made a brief attempt to get playing again, … Continue reading Into the Dark Imperium
My Daughter’s First RPG
At the beginning of March, I decided to try running a bit of a role-playing game for my 4½ year old daughter. She had played Super Dungeon Explore a few times with my wife and me, so I thought she might have fun jumping into a full rpg experience. On Game Master’s Day, I asked … Continue reading My Daughter’s First RPG
Experimenting with Markdown
I'm a software engineer at Microsoft. As part of my job, I use git everyday for version control, I do some writing in markdown for readme files and technical design docs, and I work on the Pipelines product for Azure DevOps. As I started writing notes for the mini-campaign that I was running for my … Continue reading Experimenting with Markdown
