Ben Robbins
or, “omfg Ul-Massara offered peace!!! What the fuck is going on” Second session of Ul-Massara vs Baat Kazir, playtesting This Means War. It’s winter, the third season of our war, and we just introduced characters and started to explore their lives. We finish the season… and both sides agree to...
Ben Robbins
Another playtest of This Means War: When colonists first came to this world, they were united under a single government, working together to survive. Generation after generation slowly built the sprawling mega-city that shields them from the deadly atmosphere and makes life here possible. (Yeah we...
Ben Robbins
“Naming things is hard” -some gaming guru on a mountain top, hundreds of years ago, probably Coming up with names for things is hard, particularly when (like us) you play collaborative creative games where you make the setting together. A GM just has to pick a name they like, but if you’re a...
Ben Robbins
This is one of the examples included in Rules of Law to show how the game plays. But then I thought, well if this is such a good demonstration, why not share it with people who don’t have the game yet but are wondering what it’s like? So here it is. These laws, and the societal consequences, are...
Ben Robbins
Gather round children, and let me tell you a tale about Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas! All around the world, people had forgotten the true meaning-of-the-season. So it was up to us, the assorted elves and minions of the North Pole to remind them. Yep, it was time for our somewhat annual...