Jonny Nexus

Category: Roleplaying

  • Alas Vegas: A Seventh Holy Relic?

    Ocean’s Eleven directed by David Lynch. Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas by way of Dante’s Inferno. The Hangover meets The Prisoner. A new style of RPG by James Wallis, named by Robin D. Laws as ‘the godfather of indie-game design’, with art from this year’s winner of the World Fantasy Award, John Coulthart. Long…

  • My Next GMing Project

    I’ve fancied doing some GMing (games mastering) for quite a while. (In roleplaying, the GM is the one who sets the overall storyline and runs the game). I needed something that would suit my style and my abilities, as well as hopefully working when done via a Skype video link. This is what I’ve pitched…

  • Last Night’s Game…

    We’re still playing Spirit of the Century, but John has now stepped in to take a turn in the GM’s chair. Moment of the Night: One We were in a room at a museum, talking to an woman who wanted to hire Addison Grey, TAFKAC’s “I see dead people” private eye, to find an item…

  • Campaign Idea: Children Of Selene

    I’ve been having a bit of a hankering recently to do some GMing (games mastering). Given that I’m not only at the other end of a Skype link from my gaming group, but also spending quite a lot of time writing novels, it’s pretty clear that I’d need something that: a) was an abstract game…

  • James Wallis’s Cop Show… Doing Star Trek

    I had an email from John this morning, filling me in on something that came up at last week’s meeting (which I missed due to be at the Discworld convention). They were talking about James Wallis’s (@jameswallis) unpublished game Cop Show, which he was kind enough to let me try out on the guys three…

  • Last Night’s Game…

    The funniest thing last night in our Spirit of the Century game actually related to me remembering an event from the previous session (which was two weeks ago). Now you have to remember that I’m playing a bloke whose brain has been transplanted into the body of a gorilla. We’re at a ski lodge in…

  • My Spirit of the Century Character Takes Shape

    My Monday night group have just started playing Spirit of the Century, a free-wheeling pulp role-playing game based on the Fate system. We’re managing to take our time on character creation (three sessions and counting so far), but as we’re really enjoying it, the system’s looking good, and I’m really chuffed about the characters we’re…

  • Last Night’s Game

    We’re still in Egypt, and still making slow, slow progress. A load of good quotes of which I can only remember two. Following from John’s simplifying of a plan I’d had to persuade certain people to give us information (give them a good time and if that doesn’t work, blackmail them): Me: Hang on a…

  • Last Night’s Game…

    Last night found us facing our biggest challenge of the campaign so far: a sanity test in which the penalty for success was a D10 san loss, with failure incurring a scarcely believable D100 penalty. And the three of us were already had San scores down in the fifties at this point. For those who…

  • Last Night’s Game…

    After a hiatus caused by my lack of broadband before, over and through Christmas and New Year, we resumed gaming last week. It’s still going pretty well, albeit it with the occasional interesting visual effect. This wasn’t actually the best one; the best one – which I missed with the camera – was when General…