Category: Gaming
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Games Workshop’s 2022 40k Narrative Event AAR (Part 1)
I just got back from Albuquerque, NM where Games Workshop hosted a Warhammer 40k Narrative event over the weekend. I’m going to split the After Action Review into two parts: part one will be the overall event and what I saw, heard, and experienced as far as the event itself, part two will focus on…
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Author’s Toolbag: Gaming Part Two
In Part One, I talked about some general ways in which gaming can help a writer. Here in Part Two, I’ll go into more specifics of how running (or playing) a roleplaying game can help you, the author, in developing your world, improving your characters, and building your plot. Roleplaying Games (RPGs) are a variety…
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Author’s Toolbag: Gaming Part One
As an author, particularly a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author, there’s not a lot of ways to draw directly from real-world experience to determine what is “real” in my writing. There are a number of methods to deal with that, to fill out a world, to get a feel for how things work. World-building, of…
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Computer Games: Modern Space Simulations
As I said in my last post, space simulation games, such as X Wing, Wing Commander, and Freelancer, have basically been a thing of the past. RPGs such as Mass Effect or MMORPGs like Eve Online or Star Wars The Old Republic dabble a bit in this area, but these oftentimes come back to character…
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Computer Games: Retro Mode: X Wing, Tie Fighter, and X Wing Alliance
I still remember the first time I bought X wing. I was in high school at the time. I spent $40 at the time, was so excited by the idea, couldn’t wait to get it home and hop in the cockpit of my very own spaceship. Of course, I didn’t know much about computers and…
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Counter Culture, Identity, and Nerds
I won’t ever forget the time that I heard someone tell me that I wasn’t really a nerd. This came as quite a shock to me, let me assure you. At the time, I was GMing an ongoing D&D campaign which had run two full years, playing once or twice a week for that entire…
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Anomaly Con Denver Review
I went to Anomaly Con this past weekend. It’s a smaller Fan Convention in Denver, Colorado. The general theme is steampunk and alternate history, though there was certainly guests, panels, and events linked to science fiction, traditional fantasy, and even urban fantasy as well. I’ll cover the highlights for those interested. Tracy Hickman was there,…
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Gaming Overview
This will be a bit of a different post for me. Mostly, I’ve focused on entertainment media: movies, books, that sort of thing. Today, however, I’m going to give a brief overview of SF/F related games. This is mostly to serve as a base point from where I can discuss it further later. I’m not even…
Kal Spriggs 