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by DMMike
Sat May 07, 2022 2:02 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 39: "The Morrow Project by Timeline Ltd."
Replies: 2
Views: 1796

Re: Save For Half episode # 39: "The Morrow Project by Timeline Ltd."

Yep, the tech is supposed to be modern, but you have to have some hand-wavy stuff like fusion powered team vehicles and synthetic antibiotics but OTT its a hoot. We're about 4 months into our campaign and I think its going well...though I haven't killed a team member off yet....yet!
by DMMike
Sat May 07, 2022 1:59 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 40: "East Texas University by Pinnacle Entertainment Group"
Replies: 0
Views: 2581

Save For Half episode # 40: "East Texas University by Pinnacle Entertainment Group"

It's finals time at the Halfling Hideaway, and we'd probably do well if we weren't so busy fighting supernatural evil. Yes, it's cool hijinks and eldritch horror combined in the Savage World supplement East Texas University by 12 to Midnight, Inc. As 3 of your 4 Halflings grew up in ETX, we have opi...
by DMMike
Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:49 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 39: "The Morrow Project by Timeline Ltd."
Replies: 2
Views: 1796

Save For Half episode # 39: "The Morrow Project by Timeline Ltd."

Save For Half episode # 39: "The Morrow Project by Timeline Ltd." It's happened to us all at one time or another. You get hired by a company, given survival training, then stuck in a freeze tube for 200 years. Then when you get out, you find you've misplaced your streaming accounts. It's T...
by DMMike
Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:28 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 38: "Game Wizards with Jon Peterson"
Replies: 0
Views: 2777

Save For Half episode # 38: "Game Wizards with Jon Peterson"

Friend of the Show Jon Peterson, noted author of the RPG industry and all around celebrity joins the Halflings to discuss his most recent work, "Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons", by MIT Press. The book discusses the rise of TSR Hobbies in the 1970s until the oustin...
by DMMike
Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:04 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half Sideshow # 37 1/2: "Retrospective 2021"
Replies: 1
Views: 1674

Re: Save For Half Sideshow # 37 1/2: "Retrospective 2021"

This one IS posted in time, hooray! Happy New Year everyone...
by DMMike
Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:03 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 37: "Star Frontiers by TSR"
Replies: 1
Views: 1713

Re: Save For Half episode # 37: "Star Frontiers by TSR"

Again...sorry this one is late too, I thought it was already posted back in Nov. Once again the devil farts in my face... :)
by DMMike
Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:02 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 36: "Meddling Kids by Pandahead Productions"
Replies: 1
Views: 1702

Re: Save For Half episode # 36: "Meddling Kids by Pandahead Productions"

Sorry this is late, I thought it was already posted back in Oct. I am a humble cur... :)
by DMMike
Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:01 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half Sideshow # 37 1/2: "Retrospective 2021"
Replies: 1
Views: 1674

Save For Half Sideshow # 37 1/2: "Retrospective 2021"

Save For Half Sideshow # 37 1/2: "Retrospective 2021" Don't worry, this isn't like those old TV shows where you get a "new" episode and it's just the cast reminiscing and replaying clips from the previous year to fill out a show. This is all new, off the cuff attempts by your Hal...
by DMMike
Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:00 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 37: "Star Frontiers by TSR"
Replies: 1
Views: 1713

Save For Half episode # 37: "Star Frontiers by TSR"

Save For Half episode # 37: "Star Frontiers by TSR" It's not a Trek, nor Wars...it's TSR's 1982 Sci-Fi game Star Frontiers! Your Halflings delve into this box set of space opera goodies with enough counters to warm any wargamer's (or DM Mike's) heart. Laser pistols, bizarre creatures, and ...
by DMMike
Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:59 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 36: "Meddling Kids by Pandahead Productions"
Replies: 1
Views: 1702

Save For Half episode # 36: "Meddling Kids by Pandahead Productions"

Save For Half episode # 36: "Meddling Kids by Pandahead Productions" Jinkies! It's time to pile into the van with your fave talking creature and go solve groovy mysteries with your cool clique of friends in this RPG that pays homage to various cartoons of the 60s, 70s and 80s. The Halfling...
by DMMike
Sat Oct 02, 2021 1:14 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 35: "Blakes 7 RPG by Horizon"
Replies: 0
Views: 3096

Save For Half episode # 35: "Blakes 7 RPG by Horizon"

Save For Half episode # 35: "Blakes 7 RPG by Horizon" It's time to review an RPG on one of our favorite BBC Sci-Fi TV shows of the 1970s; Blakes7 by Terry Nation. A show gritty and dark for its time, it was notorious for anti-heroes, rebels losing to the evil empir...er..."Federation&...
by DMMike
Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:53 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 34: "Advanced D&D Players Handbook by TSR"
Replies: 0
Views: 3215

Save For Half episode # 34: "Advanced D&D Players Handbook by TSR"

Save For Half episode # 34: "Advanced D&D Players Handbook by TSR" What's this? Your Fab Four Halflings are covering that venerable book of 1st edition RPG goodness? That's right, this episode we dive into the foundational rules of that newfangled (for 1978) Advanced Dungeons & Dra...
by DMMike
Wed Jul 28, 2021 7:13 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 33: "Mutant Future by Goblinoid Games"
Replies: 0
Views: 2065

Save For Half episode # 33: "Mutant Future by Goblinoid Games"

Save For Half episode # 33: "Mutant Future by Goblinoid Games" Its the future....with mutants! That's right, the Fab Foursome are covering the game Mutuant Future by Goblinoid Games, and its a world with more Gamma than you can shake a Death Machine at! Based on the Labyrinth Lord system, ...
by DMMike
Wed Jul 28, 2021 6:05 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 32: "En Garde by GDW"
Replies: 0
Views: 1987

Save For Half episode # 32: "En Garde by GDW"

Save For Half episode # 32: "En Garde by GDW" It's time to get your rapier and swing from a chandelier, because the Halflings take a look this episode at the Game Designers' Workshop edition of En Garde by Darryl Haney and Frank Chadwick (1975). There are all sort of things for PCs to do i...
by DMMike
Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:56 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 31: "Marvel Super Heroes by TSR"
Replies: 2
Views: 2441

Re: Save For Half episode # 31: "Marvel Super Heroes by TSR"

Interesting, I started with Champions 1E so trying MSH was a simplified breath of bresh air... :)

Mike
by DMMike
Fri Jun 25, 2021 5:34 pm
Forum: Victorious
Topic: Where to find the Victorious Ignition Event
Replies: 3
Views: 1797

Re: Where to find the Victorious Ignition Event

What Trav said. I left the first SuperMankind "native" emergence kind of vague so as to provide GM's maximum flexibility for their home games. IMC, the first actual costumed Super that was not a time traveler was Unicorn. She discovered her powers, armored up, and split time between fighti...
by DMMike
Mon May 17, 2021 7:05 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 31: "Marvel Super Heroes by TSR"
Replies: 2
Views: 2441

Save For Half episode # 31: "Marvel Super Heroes by TSR"

Save For Half episode # 31: "Marvel Super Heroes by TSR" Excelsior, True Believers! The Fab Four Halflings take a dive into that first licensed Superhero RPG of the 1980s, the Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game box set by TSR. Published in 1984, it took a few directions that Supers RPGs ...
by DMMike
Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:49 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half Sideshow # 30 1/2: "North Texas RPG Con 2021"
Replies: 1
Views: 2126

Save For Half Sideshow # 30 1/2: "North Texas RPG Con 2021"

Save For Half Sideshow # 30 1/2: "North Texas RPG Con 2021" Normalcy is usually overrated, but not this time. The 13th North Texas RPG Con is happening this June 3-6, 2021 and the goal is a return to normal con-gaming. As ever, BadMike/Satan is here to regale us with details of the con, th...
by DMMike
Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:15 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 30: "Alma Mater by Oracle Games"
Replies: 0
Views: 2492

Save For Half episode # 30: "Alma Mater by Oracle Games"

Save For Half episode # 30: "Alma Mater by Oracle Games" School's out...of its mind? It sure seems that way as your Four Halflings take a dive into one of the oddest RPGs from the early 1980s; that of Alma Mater. Classes, teachers, social cliques, and other hazards for your freshman PC awa...
by DMMike
Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:33 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half Sideshow # 29 1/2: "The Elusive Shift by Jon Peterson"
Replies: 0
Views: 2329

Save For Half Sideshow # 29 1/2: "The Elusive Shift by Jon Peterson"

Friend of the show (and author) Jon Peterson joins the Halflings in a wide-ranging discussion of fanzines, RPG theory, and...oh yeah, his new book from MIT Press called The Elusive Shift. When did Dungeons & Dragons stop being a fantasy wargame and become a roleplaying game? Who contributed to t...
by DMMike
Mon Dec 28, 2020 1:22 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 28: "Space Patrol by Gamescience"
Replies: 2
Views: 2842

Re: Save For Half episode # 28: "Space Patrol by Gamescience"

Its pretty interesting, and I have to admit it grew on me a little more during CharGen. :)

Mike
by DMMike
Sun Dec 20, 2020 2:19 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: 2 DMs and a Youtube?
Replies: 0
Views: 2997

2 DMs and a Youtube?

Hey all,

Elizabeth (DM Liz) and I will be guesting on the Youtube show “Talking Crit” with BadMike and Erik Tenkar this coming Wednesday Dec. 23rd at 7pm Central. Give us a gander, and you’ll mebbe get a goose. Mebbe…? :D

https://www.youtube.com/c/ErikTenkar/featured

DM Mike
by DMMike
Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:50 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 29: "Cosmic Encounter by Eon Products"
Replies: 0
Views: 2791

Save For Half episode # 29: "Cosmic Encounter by Eon Products"

Save For Half episode # 29: "Cosmic Encounter by Eon Products" No, its not a Spielberg movie. ItÕs the board game sensation of the 1970s Adventure gaming industry, Cosmic Encounter by Eon Products. A simple yet innovative system lets each of the alien races a player chooses change powers a...
by DMMike
Mon Nov 16, 2020 11:50 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 28: "Space Patrol by Gamescience"
Replies: 2
Views: 2842

Save For Half episode # 28: "Space Patrol by Gamescience"

Save For Half episode # 28: "Space Patrol by Gamescience" Space, the final frontier... or the first, as far as RPG space gaming went. Gamescience's Space Patrol beat Traveller to the punch in 1977, but was lost in the shuffle of its better known rival's little black books. But this little ...
by DMMike
Fri Oct 09, 2020 12:22 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 27: "Dresden Files by Evil Hat Productions"
Replies: 2
Views: 3900

Save For Half episode # 27: "Dresden Files by Evil Hat Productions"

Save For Half episode # 27: "Dresden Files by Evil Hat Productions" It's time for your Fab Four Halflings to accept their fates...FATE Core, that is! We sit down and cover our first FATE game in the guise of The Dresden Files RPG, based on the bestselling book series by Jim Butcher. We lea...
by DMMike
Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:19 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half Sideshow #26 1/2: North Texas RPG Con with Chris Holmes
Replies: 0
Views: 2607

Save For Half Sideshow #26 1/2: North Texas RPG Con with Chris Holmes

Save For Half Sideshow #26 1/2: North Texas RPG Con with Chris Holmes Yes there was in fact a North Texas RPG Con this year; both virtual and live tracks. Your Halflings read some emails and then discuss their time at the con. Chris Holmes, son of J. Eric Holmes, was the only one of us actually in p...
by DMMike
Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:21 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Space 1889 x2 - Bundle of Holding
Replies: 1
Views: 1320

Re: Space 1889 x2 - Bundle of Holding

Yeah, its a great setting that I've used with Victorious on occasion. Didn't have the "Clockwork" version though, so I picked up that part of the Bundle of Holding.

Mike
by DMMike
Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:58 am
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 26: "Timeship by Yaquinto Publications"
Replies: 0
Views: 2870

Save For Half episode # 26: "Timeship by Yaquinto Publications"

Save For Half episode # 26: "Timeship by Yaquinto Publications" Timeship has, let's say, a checkered reputation in the RPG community. This episode your intrepid Halflings delve into a game that mandates a player play themselves, travel back in time, and (among other things) kill Hitler. Wh...
by DMMike
Sat Jun 13, 2020 11:28 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half episode # 25: "Awful Green Things from Outer Space by SJG"
Replies: 0
Views: 2975

Save For Half episode # 25: "Awful Green Things from Outer Space by SJG"

Save For Half episode # 25: "Awful Green Things from Outer Space by SJG" What more can we say about episode 25 of Save for Half? Only they're awful, they're green...and they're from outer space! Yes, it's that quirky Tom Wham boardgame first published in Dragon magazine #28, and was in its...
by DMMike
Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:32 pm
Forum: Other Games
Topic: Save For Half Sideshow # 24 1/2: "Alarums & Excursions with Jon Peterson"
Replies: 0
Views: 3789

Save For Half Sideshow # 24 1/2: "Alarums & Excursions with Jon Peterson"

Save For Half Sideshow # 24 1/2: "Alarums & Excursions with Jon Peterson" Save for Half is back with another sideshow, this time featuring the return of the Arch-RPG Historian himself Jon Peterson! He joins the Halflings for a discussion of the seminal D&D fanzine Alarums & Exc...