“To start with, we work in two-week sprints aimed at producing material for the next package. If you’ve worked in software development, you might be familiar with the Scrum process. We’ve been using it since the late summer to drive our efforts, and so far it is working well. Scrum focuses our efforts on delivering features of the game—classes, races, tactical combat, multiclassing—in an iterative manner. Within that process, I serve as the product owner.” (Source)

What do you do when several players in your game group can’t make it to your regularly scheduled RPG game? One of my gamer buddies wrote a post about a game to play in such circumstances. Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars X Wing is an easy to play beer-and-pretzels game you can run as a backup game when you have cancellations. His experience was you could run two games in about two hours. Alternatively, you could run a game like this during a ‘buffer’ hour before your main game begins, or after the main RPG game for those who want to game longer. (Hat tip to +Steve Balog; also see pictures and an additional review from one of the games players).

Interesting perspective from one blogger:

Tabletop RPGs are a fusion between these two primal needs, human contact and imagination. By sitting across from another player and expressing self imagination (through the imagination invested in their character) and social imagination (through the imagination of a shared world) both needs are fulfilled. Source

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This weekend I ran a game called ‘The Starship Rescue’ at Texicon in Fort Worth using the ENnie award Nominated Savage Worlds rules. Gamer and freelance writer Mark Chance did a  review of the game on his Spes Magna blog.

The game was well received with some players asking for a continuation of this game and setting at the next Texicon. I’m making plans to do just that. 🙂

Several folks have asked me how I created the visual props for the game.

I used both figure flats, starship schematic handouts and a nice starship map that were visually impressive and really helped set the tone of the game. Below is a list of resources to create your own ‘Starship Rescue’ type game — but really, any system set in a Sci Fi universe where you would like nice maps and inexpensive paper miniatures would benefit from these resources.

Read the full article over at DFWRoleplayers.