Mostly Geek » Mouse Guard http://mostlygeek.sucanty.com Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:01:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 And the winner is… http://mostlygeek.sucanty.com/2009/08/and-the-winner-is/ http://mostlygeek.sucanty.com/2009/08/and-the-winner-is/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:00:29 +0000 Sophie http://mostlygeek.sucanty.com/?p=854 The ENnie awards were announced last week and I was pretty pleased to see that a game I’ve talked rather a lot about here, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplay picked up a Silver for Best Rules as well as the Gold for Best Free Product for the Quickstart rules. Coming second place to a game like Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition is a pretty good feat and Green Ronin Publishing must be very pleased.

I’m hoping that off the back of this positive response to the game that Green Ronin firms up the plans for further products as well as officially announcing when the Campaign Guide will be released. According to a report from Gen Con on the Green Ronin boards, the hold up is not that they are waiting on approvals from George R.R. Martin. Though this of course should be taken with a grain of salt until there is some sort word from Green Ronin.

Most of the other award winners covered off DnD 4th ed, Dark Heresy and Paizo Publishing, though it was great to see that some of the smaller publishers and games had a good showing like Mouse Guard (which I own, but have never actually played) and Evil Hat Productions with both Don’t Rest Your Head and Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies. Unfortunately my friend Malcolm’s Hot War didn’t pick up awards in the two categories (Best Setting and Best Writing) it was nominated.

A full list of winners can be found over at the ENnie Awards site.

]]> http://mostlygeek.sucanty.com/2009/08/and-the-winner-is/feed/ 0 Things to look forward to in ’09 http://mostlygeek.sucanty.com/2009/01/things-to-look-forward-to-in-09/ http://mostlygeek.sucanty.com/2009/01/things-to-look-forward-to-in-09/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:27:01 +0000 Sophie http://mostlygeek.sucanty.com/?p=334 With January almost done 2009 is well under way so I thought I’d jot down a list of the things I’m looking forward to this year.

  • Receiving, reading and playing Mouse Guard. An RPG of the graphic novels by David Petersen it has had a number of great reviews and as a gaming friend said to me:

“It is one of the most playable RPGs I have come across.”

  • Pulling off Day of Games on May 16th. A small one day event here in Wellington with games being offered on the day and people voting for an choosing the game they feel like playing most. More info once I re-do the blog.
  • As Nick mentioned in a previous post Green Ronin have announced that A Song of Ice and Fire rpg has been approved and is on it’s way to the printers. I ran through the quick-start adventure back in July’08 and really liked what they had done. The core book is due out in March so I’ll be doing a write up once I get my hands on it.
  • Writing my Buffy: the Vampire Slayer RPG scenario series, The Slayer Chronicals.
  • Playing in my new Buffy game (there seems to be a theme), Fall. It’s a great group of people and I think will be heaps of fun. I’ll do a write up on our first mini-session soon.
  • Dollhouse starting on TV in the US.

I think that’s it for now. I’ll be back at certain points to see how these things all pan out.

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