Archive for the 'Updates' Category
January 30th, 2011 by Jim Davenport
Every month I write a column for Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine called Gaming the Movies. From time to time, I take material I didn’t have room for in the column and add it here as bonus content. I also have created a couple full GtM columns published here for free. Today’s addition to that is a piece on using the movie Secretariat for your fantasy role-playing game. I hope it inspires a few people.
December 7th, 2010 by Jim Davenport
Added some more goodies to the Terriers – Bonus content page here on Dragonlaird Gaming. Also submitted the column to Kenzerco.
December 6th, 2010 by Jim Davenport
Okay, you heard it here first. If Terriers is resurrected after being cancelled today, y’all have me to thank. That’s right, I started the online petition to have FX Networks give the series more time. Please stop by and help us save great writing: http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/saveterrierstvshow
And no, Terriers is not a dog reality show. One of the flaws of the marketing of the show is letting them keep the name Terriers which apparently confused a lot of people. Face it, if I didn’t know what it was and saw it in the TV listings, I’d never think hip comedy-drama noir in sunny southern California with Donal Logue in it.
I love this show. As you can see from my previous posts, I’m finishing up a column on it right now. Great writing, characters who have really hooked me, gripping storylines, layered mysteries. And they ended the damn show on a cliffhanger for Pete’s sake! (Actual pantheon of the deity Pete has not been determined as of press time)
So help me out and take a second to sign the petition. I made it very easy to do. http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/saveterrierstvshow
November 28th, 2010 by Jim Davenport
Things are ramping up here at Dragonlaird Gaming. In addition to our regular monthly column, Gaming the Movies, in the Knights of the Dinner Table magazine, we’re putting plans in place for the first Dragonlaird Gaming publication. Things aren’t set in stone yet, so I don’t want to say too much, but over the next couple months, I’ll keep all of you updated as I make progress. I’m very excited about getting into more writing and working with the concept that is on the table.
My book for Bards and Sages, Adventure Havens: Temples, has completed editing and should be appearing soon on DriveThruRPG.
I’m also open to requests for other Serenity, Gamemaster, Savage Worlds, etc. content to add to this site for free. Just drop us a comment on the blog.
Cheers, Jim
September 27th, 2010 by Jim Davenport
Greetings folks, I just wanted to make a short post to let folks know that I’m still writing the movie column for Knights of the Dinner Table but my day job has not left me much time for gaming or writing. I’m in a rewrite for the Adventure Havens: Temples book I wrote for Bards and Sages but not much else.
Next column? Planet of the Apes. 🙂
June 27th, 2010 by Jim Davenport
I’m pleased to report that the voting for the best Role-playing Game Supplement at Origins 2010 went to “Big Damn Heroes Handbook” which I had the pleasure of being on the writing team for. Thanks to all the fans of a great license, a great RPG company, and my work here at Dragonlaird Gaming.
Jim
March 25th, 2010 by Jim Davenport
Time for a quick status report on what Dragonlaird Gaming has been up to.
- Jim’s column in the Knights of the Dinner Table magazine is going strong. He submitted columns on Johnny Mnemonic and the 13th Warrior recently. The column on Burn Notice is still pending publication and he’s polishing up one on The Wild Geese. It’s hard to predict what corners of the film world Jim will come up with a unique gaming experience.
- Jim is also working on completion of an RPG Supplement for the Bards and Sages company called Adventure Havens: Temples. A total of 12 ready-to-go temple concepts with NPCs and story hooks along with a general section on enriching religion in your fantasy campaigns will be a PDF publication.
- The Soul of Serenity concept got derailed but it is still planned for publication here in the blog. The concept is to examine each of the nine members of the Serenity crew and understand how they enriched the ‘Verse gaming world, what story elements they introduced, how they contributed to the ensemble, and what other lessons gamers can take from them. Once Jim has time to re-watch the series (purely as research mind you 😉 ), we’ll start publishing those articles here.
Outside of the freelancing work, we’re playing Savage Worlds with the home team (the Columbus Gaming Group, going strong for 20+ years). We’ve moved into a mode of short, modular adventures with a team of PCs where different people can GM different nights and their PC is just not there for that adventure. We’re playing in Sean Patrick Fannon’s Shaintar campaign world as Gray Rangers in the Wildlands.
Cheers to the fans and drop us a comment to let us know what you’re up to or what articles you might like to see here on Dragonlaird Gaming’s site.
November 29th, 2009 by Jim Davenport
Hey fans,
I finally got a full bonus column posted to the site so you can get a taste of what the published column is like in Knights of the Dinner Table magazine. I review the movie Wanted from 2008 with Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, and James McAvoy and describe how to create an RPG campaign inspired by the movie.
Enjoy!
October 6th, 2009 by admin
I corrected some atrocious formatting that was left over from the pre-blog version of my website, added in recent published work in Serenity’s Big Damn Heroes Handbook and a cool collage of KoDT covers for my column. Much easier to read and more orderly.
October 5th, 2009 by Jim Davenport
An article I wrote on incorporating natural disasters into your campaign world has been published as part of Johnn Four’s Roleplaying Tips Newsletter: http://www.roleplayingtips.com/readissue.php?number=464
Enjoy!