Gear Krieg love-in. Ooh yeah baby….
I really like Gear Krieg - two fisted pulp RPG. Mecha in WW2 just appeals, even more than superheroes in WW2 appeals (though psychics in WW2 appeals even more but…[...]
Super Hero vs. Science Fiction
A little off-topic, this one. I was considering role-playing genre and inspirations for games (after Matt's previous post) and I realised that I hadn't seen a big budget science fiction…[...]
I have no memories of this place…
Howcome Gandalf didn't know how to operate the front door of Moria, yet knew it was a 4 day trek and then gets to a bit where he says "I…[...]
DG update…
As I may have mentioned, I'm in KinnyGraham's DeltaGreen game. The other night, after losing one agent to the nameless horror and receiving a chewing from our DG contact, my…[...]
Six Word Stories: Redux
I put a post on RPGnet to paint this as a method to generate scenario ideas. At the time of this writing, there's 5 pages of the buggers.... This will…[...]
Only six words to say everything?
Wired writes: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work." They then got…[...]
2300AD revival
Am busting out for another game now that kinnygraham has booked Wednesday or Tuesday for a continuation of our much delayed DG campaign. To this end, paulk has nabbed his…[...]
Holy Crap it’s October
Earlier this year I lost a heap of stuff. About two years worth of unpublished writing and all my original files for my books. Absolutely gutting. Essentially, my backup was…[...]
Passive/Aggressive
Wow. Am I passive/aggressive? I don't think so. Sure, I use sarcasm a lot, often in a humourous and self-deprecating way, but am I passive/aggressive? Passive/Aggressive is defined as being…[...]
Superhero game: The WatchTower
I used to run a game that some people thought was fun which was set in San Francisco where the players were new recruits for a Avengers-style franchise. They were…[...]
Heroes, a non-spoiler review.
I watched episode 1 of Heroes last night and I was very pleasantly surprised. There's some discontinuity here and there but you can tell it's of the "Lost" vein in…[...]
Mutants and Masterminds: I just don’t get it…
I've been called a curmudgeon before....no, really... What is the deal with Mutants and Materminds. It reads like a completely average d20 system. It's not special in any way and…[...]
Games Shops in Paris
I went to two games shops in Paris and spent a little too much on books. I got some English language RPGs and could hve bought more - there's heaps…[...]
Apple Expo
I'm at Apple Expo in Paris this week and taking the opportunity to pop down to Jeux Descartes and other games shops. I hear great things about the French gaming…[...]
Viride: contribution by others
I started a thread about Viride in the RPG NET forums and I hope to continue to discuss the game in that neutral forum in the future. There have been…[...]
Where is it going?
Things we have planned: game reports - experiences of our gaming groups game design - building a novel RPG before your eyes tips - things we do before preparing to…[...]
Marvel Super Heroes Saga
Both of us at lategaming are fans of Super Hero games. For Matt, it's because he misspent his youth reading comic books. For me, it's because they're the pinnacle of…[...]
Welcome to the new LateGaming site
This is more or less what LateGaming was meant to be. The origin of the name was because we always started a gaming session by turning up between 7 and…[...]
The Big Change
With the change of LateGaming from an old-style static site, to something a little moe dynamic and, well, content-filled, we have some administrivia to take care of first. Testament "and…[...]
About
LateGaming was started in 2001 by Matt, who didn't have a regular gaming group at the time and needed a fix for his desire to rant about role-playing games. Of…[...]