Tsunami Quarterly Review – Summer 2014

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Our summer 2014 issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the seventh issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

  • RPG Crucible: Be Part of That World: Tips for adding roleplaying depth by engaging details of your character’s setting while designing a backstory.
  • Tools, Companions, and Gods – Using Computers in your SciFi Game: Writer/designer Phil Vecchione explores the use of computer technology in science-fiction game settings and how it affects your PCs.
  • Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
  • Playing Nice in Space: Staff writer George Sedgwick casts a light on ways you can help a GM faced with the near-infinite possibilities of a SciFi campaign and make it better for everyone involved.
  • My Character Would Never Do That!: JiB from Happy Jacks closes this season’s issue with a closer look at social combat between PCs, why current systems just can’t address it, and what you can do to make it work.

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Tsunami Quarterly Review – Spring 2014

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Our spring 2014 issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the sixth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

  • RPG Crucible: Be Ashamed of Yourself: Tips for adding roleplaying flavor by exploring potentially comlpex regrets that can inform character development.
  • Exploring Character – A Qualified Rant: George from RPG Circus discusses the fundamental difference between “using” a character and “exploring” a character.
  • Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
  • Killology 101: Details the immersive potential of a PC’s physiological and psychological ramifications from committing acts of violence.
  • Giving Voice to Out Games: JiB from Happy Jacks examine the fine points of narrative control and how it works in different styles of gaming.

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Tsunami Quarterly Review – Winter 2014

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Our winter 2014 issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the fifrth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

  • RPG Crucible: Eye on the Prize: Tips for adding roleplaying flavor by exploring your character’s personal ambitions, no matter how unrealistic.
  • Freshening Up Your Game: George from RPG Circus suggests six ways to freshen up a stale gaming experience.
  • Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
  • The New Game: Chris from the Misdirected Mark takes a run at pitching a new game to your group.
  • Heating Up Leftovers: JiB from Happy Jacks talks about reviving a failed, stalled, or paused campaign.

Help support the Prismatic Tsunami community and the popular Metagamers Anonymous RPG podcast!

Tsunami Quarterly Review – Fall 2013

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Our fall issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the fourth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

  • RPG Crucible: Devils in the Details: Tips for adding roleplaying flavor by fashioning behavioral routines unique to your PC.
  • Creating the Mood: JiB from Happy Jacks suggests ways to enhance your horror gaming experience by engaging the senses of your players.
  • Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
  • Leverage Mechanics: Advice on suiting the style of your game to the system mechanics that best support it.
  • Little Frights: George from RPG Circus returns with a few important tips for adding tension to your horror game scenarios.
  • My First Night of Tremulus: A practical review of Reality Blurs’ Tremulus RPG, powered by the Apocalypse.

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Tsunami Quarterly Review – Summer 2013

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Our summer issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the third issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

  • RPG Crucible: Previous Lives: Another look at character backstory development with people who have lived another life before becoming adventurers.
  • Five GMing Mistakes: Happy Jacks’ Stu Venable discusses a group of common pitfalls that every GM should be aware of.
  • Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
  • Old Foe, New Foe Hammer: Revisiting a few interesting weapons that rarely see much use but could add new flavor to your combat scenarios.
  • Of Pins and Needles: Some Thoughts on the Use of Horror in Fantasy Games: The effective use of horror as a seasoning for fantasy RPGs.
  • The Mortlock, Pt. 1: Original fiction set in the universe of the Obsidian Crown fantasy setting described in the Metagamers Anonymous Actual Play Series.

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Fiasco Playset: After Z-Day!

Moriston After Zday Fiasco Cover_Page_01For your enjoyment, I hereby bequeath you a copy of the Fiasco playset used during our recent Actual Play recording. The playset is adapted from a playset by Bryant Durrell entitled Zombie Apocalypse, with elements tailored to Mortiston and often referring back to events in our Actual Play series, Project Z. If you’re looking for a more generic version, I definitely recommend Durrell’s excellent playset… but if you want to experience a little bit of the world you’ve been hearing about in our online campaign, have at it!

Download:  After Z-Day: The Zombie Apocalypse in Mortiston USA!

Tsunami Quarterly Review – Spring 2013

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Our second issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the second issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

  • RPG Crucible: Friendships On The Fly: How to use the “yes, and…” philosophy to build PC backgrounds and relationships during the game.
  • Be An Interesting Player: Phil Vecchione offers tips to enrich your gaming experience by being more interesting at the gaming table.
  • Tsunami City Project: Thirteen fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
  • Building A Sandbox: How To Create Open Ended Adventures For RPGs: Advice on the use of both story and sandbox gaming elements to offer better hooks and a more exciting gaming experience.
  • Arrows To The Groin: Hit Location, Better Combat, And You: A critical look at freshening up your combat scenarios.

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Tsunami Quarterly Review #1

TQR1coverThe first issue of TQR is now available as a free download at DriveThruRPG!  Picking up our periodical is a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the first issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

  • RPG Crucible: Told by the Victor: Advice on building backstory that leaves room for suprises!
  • Are Gamemasters Playing Too?: A philosophical look at the GM’s role in the game.
  • Tsunami City Project: Fourteen fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus an additional location found only in this publication!
  • In the Commander’s Chair: One man’s journey into the world of his latest video game excursion.
  • A Few Words on Insanity: A retrospective look at the application of insanity in your RPG experience.

Help support the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous!