Tag: Table Top
Gaming books on the cheap
So you want the latest gaming book but don’t or can’t pay the off the shelf price at your local gaming shop? Perhaps the answer is half.com, this is the site we used to buy our 4th edition D&D books at just less then 1/2 off the shelf price. And…
Man vs Dice – Part 3
So what happens when your dice mutiny all together???? When that happens you sit down at the game table, clipboard of characters, maps and miscellaneous information in hand and find that you have everything but your character sheet. You dig through the gaming bag that the gaming clipboard lives in,…
Man vs Dice – Part 2
As promised here I am again to bring you up to current on the continued, and ever ongoing Man vs Dice saga. While the great game of awesome roles continued to elude him, many an attempt has been made to understand the psychology of the bag of dice that our…
Man vs Dice – Part 1
In my twenty years of gaming experience, trailing over a good number of gaming groups, I have found one thing to be true. At the gaming table there will always be someone whose dice simply hate them. Now I don’t mean the guy whose dice are just cold that night…
Part – The mishaps continue
So when we left off our ragged group of adventurers had not yet figured out that they were destined through PC aura to be together. The best laid plans of mice and DM’s go astride often I have found. The draconian, being afflicted by the ratling disease ability, had left…
Trade your old gaming stuff for new dice
Another day, another cruise through some of my newly bookmarked websites. And what did I find you might ask? Why I found a barter offer from GM Dice (I wrote about them the other day). They are bringing barter back to gaming, and on the web even! According to the…
Legendary Lives 2nd Edition Review
Legendary Lives 2nd Edition is a fantasy based RPG published by Marquee Press in the mid 90s. I discovered it at Powell’s Book store in 1995 and fell in love right away. The system only takes one book and the character sheets have most all of the information a player…
Legendary Lives 2nd Edition
My favorite game to run is Legendary Lives 2nd Edition. I have been running this fantasy based RPG since the mid 90’s. In particular I like the open magic system and the ease of game play. Since Marquee Press went out of business the authors have put the rule book…