Tag Archives: Savage Worlds

How The Adventure Deck Ruined My Plans (and made for an epic game session)

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Mike Page

I just wanted to share an episode from yesterday’s game involving the adventure deck, something that we started using last year. So there’s a showdown.  On an icy bridge.  With a frost giant (this is actually taken from a Pathfinder … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Pack

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Mike Page

When we first switched from Dragon Warriors to Savage Worlds three years ago, the kids were quite a bit younger (9 years old). I think we played with the Savage Worlds Adventure Deck once and it wasn’t a great success. … Continue reading →

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Firaxis and the art of GMing

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Mike Page

Despite my advancing years (vintage ’68),  I still enjoy a good computer game. A couple of games that I’ve enjoyed more than I thought I would were the Firaxis titles “Sid Meier’s Pirates” and more recently their re-working of “XCOM: … Continue reading →

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Creating the Illusion of Tension

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Mike Page

We had a mammoth session on Sunday – about 7 hours. And it was also one of the best games in recent memory. Why? Because it was tense. The party had something to lose, and a very real possibility of … Continue reading →

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Getting Ready to Get Back to the Table

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Mike Page

So our summer hiatus is nearly over and I’m getting our group ready to get back to the table, back to the story. I’ve reminded the party members where they’d got to (after I reminded myself). It sounds as though … Continue reading →

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Back to the Gaming Board

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Mike Page

So Sunday sees us back at the gaming table with the original Savaged Dragon Warriors campaign. Back in December we started a 50 Fathoms campaign for when only the core group can make it, but this weekend we could schedule … Continue reading →

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Notes from a Gaming Family

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Mike Page

It’s Teach Your Kids to Game week over at ReachThruRPG, and as we game as a family, I thought I’d add my 2c-worth. I was introduced to the infamous Red Box Book Set 30 years ago at the tender age … Continue reading →

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First Run with Savage Legend

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Mike Page

After a trial run with the Tomb of Terrors a while back, yesterday we finally had time to run the first adventure with Savage Legend – my Savage Worlds / Dragon Warriors hybrid. First job was to complete the character … Continue reading →

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Narrative Character Generation

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Mike Page

Most of my gaming group are relatively naive in the sense that they haven’t been gaming all that long. In addition two of them are still relatively young (born in 2001). The result is that I’ve ended up providing them … Continue reading →

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Where Do They Learn It All?

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Mike Page

Just involved in an interesting conversation with <urbanfrog2002> on the dragwars message board, where he makes the following interesting point on learning new skills: “I love it that to gain a particular ability etc often a character will need to … Continue reading →

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