Stupid Fat Fingers

I was really at a loss for this episode tonight. I had planned, up until game start, to have it be an Alien-esque adventure, with a creature escaping from its captivity and hunting down the crew of the isolated space station (as well as the characters). There was to be a connection between the characters and the creature, in the form of the creature being the thing that saved their lives in the first place by being a donor of genetic material.

And then, I realized that I have been ...

Taking ghost-angel's suggestion to heart, I'm posting about our Gemini Ascendant game. After a brief hiatus for Starwolf to run his Guardians PAH game (and for me to take a GM break) we started back up this evening.

For this run, I've sort of taken the stand that each major run is a "season" similar to a TV season. Each season will probably have from 3-5 story arcs before wrap up and the "off" season games (Starwolf's PAH game or some other non Gemini Ascendant ...

Part One: Designing the Characters


Let’s face it, on the mechanical side HERO is very functional and balanced. But so are some other systems out there. The huge draw to HERO is the rules designed to create Characters. It is telling that the Character Creation rules are 320 Pages long, while the remaining rules are only 140 pages.


The trick is going to be bringing the spirit of those very flexible character creation rules to bear, while not dropping the ...

Recently, I've read a whole bunch of "quick start"/"fast play" rules. It started with the Shadowrun 3rd Edition Quick Start rules (free on RPGNow if you're interested). I wanted to put together a Shadowrun game and felt that the Quick Start rules would be a useful resource for my players that have never looked at Shadowrun before.

I'm not really sure why I decided to expand beyond Shadowrun, but I picked up as many other Quick Start rules as I could find. Some of ...

Okay I've tried blogging in the past via Livejournal and my own web page, but those never worked out too well. I'm going to give it one more try, with the HERO blogging feature. I figure that about 80% of my online time is spent here so I stand a better chance of moving the little mouse pointer to the Blogs link and going from there.

Wish me luck!