Hi there, coming back from the great Big Bad Con 2018 in California, I started to think of some fellow roleplayers who ran RPG games for the first time in a convention, and wanted to provide some advice to put all the chances on their side for a great experience. What do I mean by…
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Bringing French RPGs to the US
Since I moved to the Bay area, I took the habit to bring French Roleplaying games to the local players. Some are old, some are unknown, and some were translated into English since. My tradition is to always run at least one of them as oneshot during the BigBadCon convention. Here is a list of…
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Long time player, “Rôliste” as we say in France. What are my favorite Jeux de Rôles / Roleplaying games : List of Posts about RPG:
Read moreCreation: Pavis
For the record, I wanted to mention some past RPG work.In 2001, I collaborated on writing the Game supplement “Pavis – Glorantha” and “Pavis – Herowars” with the editor Multisim. This was for the French translation of Robin Laws game from Issaries, based on Greg Stafford‘s Universe. We greatly enjoyed writing, adapting, and regrouping material…
Read moreMordiou!
Mordiou is a roleplaying game from John Grumpf. You can find the french edition on lulu.com : le terrier du Grumpf. This short game proposes to play in Paris XVIIeme century, in the classic musqueteer and court intrigues style. mordiou-Character-sheet-english-v3 PDF mordiou-Character-sheet-english-v3 POWERPOINT I did a translation of the character sheet, as it was. And…
Read morePocket Dragon
To introduce the game to my colleagues, I translated Dragon de Poche 2 material from french to english. This is a RolePlaying game emulating fantasy adventures and some of the touch of Dungeon&Dragons. Much lighter to setup and run. Great for beginners and if you need something to start quickly. I like the way that many…
Read moreCreation : Castle Amber Fiasco Playset
Amber is the center of the Universe, and also a very messed up environment to grow up. An oedipal King as father with a collection of queens, and many siblings princes and princesses, all ready to eliminate each others to take the throne. I loved the Amber Diceless roleplaying, and paid my homage with a Fiasco…
Read moreBig Bad Con
Every year in October I enjoy the BigBadCon convention of RPG in Oakland CA. Organized by Sean Nittner from Narrative Control Podcast since 2011. Please come and enjoy Indy Roleplayings games, and great players and game masters.
Read moreFeng Shui
Fengh Shui is an action roleplaying game, inspired by the cheesy american action and HongKong kung-fu movies. Add a bit of time travel and cinematographic villains, and you have a very enjoyable game. The latest version has been republished in 2015 : Feng Shui 2 I wrote those scenarios in French : Voir Palerme et…
Read moreWastburg
Wastburg is a French Roleplaying Game, based on a book from Cédric Ferrand. The players are Guards of a medieval city, and will investigate the crimes and secrets, NCIS style in the mud and the dirt, without the modern forensic. I wrote this scenario in French: Le Mystère de Sceaux – “The Mystery of…
Read moreCreation : Game Controller
Game Controller is a RolePlaying Game about Roleplaying Game. The proposition is that there is a secret organization in charge of running the game sessions. Imagine that all the Non-Players-Characters are in fact supernumeraries in costume, and that behind the scene a troop of engineers are preparing the sets. And the responsability of the succes of the…
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