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Well, the year in *my* gaming, anyway.
Last year, during the holidays, Tim (I’m pretty sure it was Tim) suggested that we set up a regular gaming schedule for:

A small group.
On weeknights.

This coincided well with my long-time desire to get a regularly scheduled game night going again. The small group also meant that we wouldn’t have [...]

Have a Merry Ninja Christmas.
More gaming stuff soon. Promise.

I love stories about amnesia. I just… I love ‘em.
Tim has been talking about Paul Tevis’ A Penny for My Thoughts.  The game is out now, and that link connects to Paul talking about the game a little bit on his podcast.  I will allow him one episode of self-promotion, because the game sounds really [...]

Wow, I kind of screwed some things up in the first session, but we had a lot of fun anyway. What follows is the tale of one play session that, by the suggested structure of play in the rules, was really two ‘missions’ worth of stuff (two cycles of “GM’s Turn, Player’s Turn”). [...]

Right, so… where was I?
We had most the skills and wises nailed down for the characters, and we knew what skill each character’s mentor had emphasized in their training, so once again I went back to an idea from that article on teaching Mouse Guard through character generation and decided to show everyone how Independent [...]

Leonard Balsera talks about Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies.

It’s The Three Musketeers meets The Princess Bride meets pre-mecha Final Fantasy. If that sentence does not scream possibility to you, then you can stop reading now, because there is no talking to you.

Now if I can just find someone to run it, so I can plaaaay.

I’m a big fan of machinima made from games that I’m playing.  My only MMO at the moment is LotRO, and while the game is great, one of the things I’ve missed from WOW is the amount of great machinima movies that the player base produces.  (Lots of crappy ones also, but there’s so many [...]

The simplest little RPG ever
This is an RPG intended to be played with kids. It requires one adult (or semi-adult) GM, and assumes that the player characters go out and have adventures. Said adventures need not be violent gore-fests, but they can be heroic swords-and-sorcery affairs if that’s the way you swing. There is a [...]

Nope, the Ning.com site wasn’t working for me — not well enough anyway.
So, I’m back over here where I should be – transferred entirely to Wordpress – and working on adding the stuff to this wordpress-based site that I wanted out of the Ning – a forum and better ways to have a conversation.  More [...]

In this final Return to Northmoor episode of the year, Doyce Testerman and Tim White sit down with Fred Hicks of Evil Hat (Spirit of the Century and Don’t Rest Your Head), and OneBadEgg, a new venture producing materials for Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition.
Fred talks about how his games have evolved from the days [...]