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What's the funniest movie of all time? I'm not really a basketball person, but I do love comedy. So with a lot of input from online friends, I built a mammoth 256-entry March Madness bracket for comedy movies. Here's the first piece of Round 1. The rules are simple - in each head-to-head match...

QC Game Fest is coming! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – QC Game Fest Announces Inaugural Details Games+1 and the QC Game Fest committee wish to announce the inaugural year of what will become an annual event here in the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. QC Game Fest, a tabletop board gaming...

Oddly enough, I'm doing exactly this next Saturday. I'm running a 4-hour Grindhouse session for a birthday party. It's my first time ever doing so (I was reluctant to set this precedent - my down time's valuable) but I found I couldn't turn it down.

Anybody else still got a love affair going with Dread? I've now run my homebrewed one-shot scenario five times, and I think it's probably polished up enough to share with any other Dread GMs who are interested. Trouble in Paradise: Two weeks on the most secluded inhabited island in the entire...

I still check this thread every time I see it bumped, and still love this game. I'm planning to run Dread again at my local convention in a couple of months. As for your Zombie game, just a couple of questions: Are you setting a time limit, or do you want to get through a specific number of...

Happily, the server issue seems to now be completely fixed. Just in time for my new campaign to kick off tomorrow! :D

Like most, I'm unwilling to throw out/give away my old books. However, I do like to mine the old stuff for tasty tidbits I can reuse, re-skin, or blatantly steal for more current campaigns/scenarios. I don't consider myself a completist, but I know a good deal when I see it. When the DDM eBay...

The Obsidian Portal site has been going through a transition. On their blog they announced that the site had been bought by another company. I take this as a positive sign, because we've been seeing improvements since that happened two months ago. However, they apparently encountered some...

Happy Jack's RPG Podcast Users: 1,120 Threads: 4,027 Posts: 41,028 Like this? :)

I wish there were. But if you want to tackle their backlog, you can start from the beginning here. But be aware, they've been at this a while. They're coming up on their 300th episode in just a few short weeks. Like I said, it's not for everyone. But for me, it's very reminiscent of sitting...

+1 for Happy Jack's. It's not for everyone (occasional profane language and belches from the beer-drinking hosts), but it is a very well-produced, intelligent, and listener-friendly podcast. They spend about half of each episode answering listener emails, and they love to hear gaming horror...

The thread title says it: Is anybody else braving the Iowegian winter and going to Gamicon Omega? I'll be there all weekend, and I'm running games on Friday and Saturday. It's at a new venue this year, at the downtown Sheraton Hotel. So who else is ready for some gaming??

I introduced my (then) 5-year-old son to Fuzzy Heroes and he loved it. It's a very simple tabletop wargame where the combatants/miniatures are your kids' stuffed animal toys. The rules are simple enough for a child to understand, and the most math they have to do is adding up the pips on their...

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I was half of a very successful co-GM with one of my best friends for a one-shot convention game last year. The initial concept was mine, but I didn't yet know the system (Savage Worlds) well enough to run it solo and he did the crunchy parts. We bounced ideas off each other and riffed our way...

We've recently begun a 5E campaign, to get a feel for the system. (So far, we've been having a blast.) The GM doesn't like the XP RAW, so we agreed on a simple system: What level is the group? That's how many sessions it'll take to level up. So after the first session, we all went to level two...

Damn. I don't think I wanted to learn that Black Tokyo even existed. No mature gaming group would ever even entertain the possibility of playing a game like that. (And I'll go ahead and clarify - "mature" and "over the age of eighteen" are not the same thing.) Role playing games are social...

First and foremost, congratulations to Gradine and kudos for writing one hell of an adventure. Your combination of Celebrated Orc and Universal Language was especially bloody well brilliant. The 24-hour time crunch killed me. I actually rewrote this thing three times, trying to come up with...

I disagree. I have absolutely no qualms about running games with adult theme, but there are limits to just how dark a story the vast majority of adult gamers would be willing to play. (As an aside, I'm a very open-minded guy, but if my GM sprang that serial rapist villain on us I'd have serious...