Articles tagged with: RPG

Finally, and after so many years without playing a pen-and-paper RPG, this situation is coming to an end.

Some workmates and I are finishing preparations for some Call of Cthulhu roleplaying!

As some of us have not played in a long long time, and others are newcomers to RPGs, our master (keeper in the Cthulhu theme ;) has decided to start with basic rules and expand it as we progress.

To do so, we're using the following:

• GORE (Generic Old-school Role-playing Engine) as the basic ruleset, with some modifications and Cthulhu-specific tables.
• Call of Cthulhu Quickstart Rules, to provide Cthulhu settings and rules to the GORE system. It is a ultra-compact version of the standard roleplaying game.
• Byakhee + the Seet Back for Call of Cthulhu, for the character generation.

We know few more details... the game will be placed in 1922 in the north of Wisconsin.

Let's hope all goes well and we start having playing sessions each few weeks!

Posted on 2008-01-13

Last winter. in one of my visits to what me and my friends call "the roleplaying shops" (5 Comics, RPGs and boardgames shops in the same area) I bought a revised edition of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game.

Now that I've read some Lovecraft books (and I'm reading more right now) I feel like I'm ready to read the game rules and get the proper feeling about the game.

I don't know if I'll try to lure my friends to play it (like in the old times our "roleplaying weekends") or I will take a more "pure roleplaying" approach and maybe transform it into an email, turn based playing (focusing more on describing things and getting a deep history instead of dice rolls).

I'll post my oppinion as soon as I finish reading the rules.

Oh, and the title of this post comes from finding that the first edition of the RPG game came out in 1981, the same year I was born. Maybe that's the reason why I like so much the Cthulhu myths }:)

Posted on 2007-12-01

Wizards of the Coast have announced in a press note that the fourth edition of D&D will be ready for may 2008.

The new features are integration with the plastic miniatures, web-based tools (including a "digital game table" to play over internet), faster gameplay and less gaming sessions preparation time.

For more details, read the press release.

Posted on 2007-08-16

The Hypertext d20 SRD is a fantastic website about the D20 system.

I've just added the link to the Links section, don't miss it if you play AD&D!

Posted on 2006-02-15