Dispatches From Kickassistan

Even before I learned about Palladium Books' TMNTOS reissue (on Kickstarter now), 2023 was shaping up to be another one of those years where my interest swings back around to TMNTOS from a simple...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/11/the-tiamat-initiative-new-source-of.html

In my last post , I talked about the Transylvania game (still wanting for a name) that I plan on running in WARPLAND . I mentioned that the game will take place "in the Age of Napoleon," but th...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/08/transylvania-anno-domini-1818.html

I picked up WotC's Ravenloft campaign setting guide when it came out a few years ago and I was surprised by what was actually a pretty tight little campaign setting. Sure, it was missing the gran...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/08/the-transylvania-game-warpland-rpg.html

Who is the chief of that horde? What fell warrior swings his sword at its vanguard, hurtling forward astride his beastly steed? He bears no shield, that warlord, that king; the arm that lesser ...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/08/harvest-of-skalls-fiction.html

  Click here for the previous post in this story     “What’s so fucking funny?” the hunter said, letting go of the litter he had used to drag the boar back to his clan’s encamp...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/08/good-to-know-i-can-still-rely-on-you.html

 Keeping the new skills for WARPLAND rolling, here are three skills that really shine in civilized lands. Bonus: all three skills are heretical by nature! Student You may be a devotee of a ...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/08/three-civilized-skills-for-warpland-rpg.html

  The hunter pulled his spear shaft from the boar with a sickening, sloppy sound. The freshly cadaverous body released the haft not unlike a bottle releasing a cork; it came suddenly and was ...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/08/ive-still-had-worse-birthdays.html

 I may not have mentioned it here, if only because I try to keep the Real Life (tm) separate from the Gaming Life (c), but I'm running for City Council in my (since 2016) home of South Haven,...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/07/im-running-for-city-council.html

The third part in an ongoing series of new skills for the WARPLAND RPG by Gavriel Quiroga . Today, we dip our toes into dark fantasy with a trio of skills meant to bring a little bit of horror t...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/07/3-dark-fantasy-skills-warpland-rpg.html

I enjoyed coming up with my last set of skills for Gavriel Quiroga's WARPLAND RPG so much that I immediately started looking for other things to turn into skills! This is a very fun way for me t...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/07/three-more-skills-for-warpland-rpg.html

         Far away on that blasted southern continent known to only the most learned in the lands of men, but much more widely outside of those backwaters, as Kalaong, lies a gorge not pe...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/07/the-scraplands.html

  Last weekend I mentioned that I'd started on a project for the A Town, A Forest, A Dungeon Jam for the Cairn RPG over on Itch.io . I wasn't quite able to land the project before the cutoff ti...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/07/in-witching-wood-development-draft.html

FIRST The thought that any given dungeon or location would be so dangerous that none have ever returned, should be a basic description of any dungeon. If a dungeon is survivable by average vill...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/07/from-whence-none-return-some-thoughts.html

My friend Crab Dominion informed me of the A Town, A Forest, A Dungeon Jam for the Cairn RPG over on Itch.io a while back and I meant to do something for it, but I wasn't really inspired until...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/06/the-old-ways-town-forest-dungeon-jam.html

THE EUPHORIA GARDEN A dangerous adventure location for the WARPLAND RPG .* DESCRIPTION Even in the bleak lifelessness of Obsidia, nature continues to find a way. Pockets of volcanic rock and...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/06/the-euphoria-garden-warpland-rpg.html

DEAD HORSE MAG #1 -- AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! Back in March or April, Kirby from Disaster Tourism invited me to submit an article for the Dead Horse Magazine that they and Christian Sorrel o...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/06/dead-horse-mag-1-origins-game-fair-23.html

My Dungeon GUILD project merges the procedural generation found in Happy Jak Games 's Wyrd Dungeon with the character & gear systems from Disaster Tourism 's GUILD: Sword & Magick for Hire to c...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/06/dungeon-guild-level-two-part-one-basic.html

 Today, my daughter and I were drawing at the dinner table and I posted the results to Instagram and figured "why no blog?"  For this first piece, my daughter told me to draw an "eyelash m...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/06/weekend-monster-sketches.html

 In my last post, I talked about the "Dungeon GUILD" game I was starting with my family by marrying the GUILD: Sword & Magic for Hire rules by Disaster Tourism with the Wyrd Dungeon rules by ...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/06/dungeon-guild-session-one-post-mortem.html

Today, I accidentally started the project of using Happy Jak Games' s Wyrd Dungeon RPG as the procedural dungeon generator for a GUILD: Sword & Magick For Hire campaign with my 7-year-old son, a...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/06/dungeon-guild-guild-rpg-wyrd-dungeon.html

THREE TECHNOCRATIC ARTIFACTS FOR THE WARPLAND RPG Forbidden by The Tenet, the technological wonders of the Eloi are anathema to the denizens of the civilized places of Warpland , the death sente...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/06/3-technocrat-artifacts-warpland-rpg.html

I recently got a hold of a copy of Gavriel Quiroga's excellent WARPLAND RPG * and while we were making characters for it, a few people's character ideas didn't quite jibe with the skills in the b...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/05/three-skills-for-warpland-rpg.html

 I've been running a lot of Torchbearer lately and making a lot of TikTok videos about it (hit me up @DSRAdam over there while we still can) and I'm at the point with my TT videos where the thou...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2023/03/being-torchbearer-and-time.html

Welcome back to another post about These Dice: Today, I'll specifically be talking about These Dice: The following system is designed to fulfill a specific need: I run a lot of games at conv...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2015/12/these-dice-corruption-system-for-old.html

Here's the first of potentially several posts about Mike Davison's WARBAND! This time, I show off how we re-jiggered the round sequence as well as a few other house rules that we put in place. In...

https://www.kickassistan.net/2020/01/warband-wednesday-combat-round-sequence.html