Gaming on the Frontier

this week we discuss adventuring in the BioShock Columbia world and how Fringeworthy might fit into it.

This week we finish discussing how to convert bioshock from a video game to a full fledged rpg and maybe add Fringeworthy to it.

This week we start discussing how bioshock can be used as a rpg campaign of its own or as a setting or resource for Fringeworthy

This week we finish discussing how various features in a game system can be used to simulate horror by debuffing PC's in an adventure.

How to use the game system to simulate horror by debuffing the pc's pt 1

This week we finish our discussion of bringing the atmosphere and tropes of slasher movies, especially supernatural slasher movies, into your campaign.

this week we talk about supernatural slasher movies and how to bring that style into your adventures.

This week Jonathan and Bruce follow Trav in telling what originally attracted us to Tri Tac Games; which games; and do they still jazz us?

This week we do another Iron GM episode where in 20 minutes we make an adventure out of random story seeds for your listening pleasure and as a start to an adventure for you to use.   Also we delve into what drew us to Tri Tac games in the first place and if they still have the same attraction

This week we talk about how changes between editions of many game systems have enraged the players and what if any improvements they have made to the game play or marketing the game.

This week Jonathan tells us the trials, tribulations, and victory of using the Cortex system to run Bureau 13

this week we finish our discussion of the myriad of dangerously amateur supernatural sleuths in any world where the supernatural is hunted covertly.

This week we wonder about who might also be stalking the night fantastic, besides the official foreign supernatural agencies.

This week we finish our intro to adding magic to existing tech or better yet designing magic into the development of tech from the beginning.

We've talked about putting tech in your magic but now we talk about how to add magic to your existing tech or devise a history of technology where magic is incorporated from the beginning.

This week we start to explore what it really is, its intent and what limits have been placed on it

This week we start to explore what it really is, its intent and what limits have been placed on it

this week we finish examining if playing FW or Hardwired Hinterland as virtual worlds would make more sense.

There is a lot of weirdness about the these two properties.  Would they be better as virtual worlds than real ones?

This week we offer tactics to both encourage players to attend regularly and how to prevent abuse of those characters while the player is away.

This week we begin our probe of how to handle player absence, temporary or permanent.  What it means to the game and what is a fair way to treat both the character and the player.

Lots of us have very fond memories of the duo of Jak and Daxter video games.  Now we help you play then in a tabletop rpg.

Lots of us have very fond memories of the duo of Jak and Daxter video games.  Now we help you play then in a tabletop rpg.

We already covered how the bureau would be part of a post apocalyptic earth alternate world in general, but we realized that the regional teams and their bases would be a major factor.  We wanted to give them their fair space.

We already covered how the bureau would be part of a post apocalyptic earth alternate world in general, but we realized that the regional teams and their bases would be a major factor.  We wanted to give them their fair space.