Fat Rat Games of Tallahassee Hosting rpg campaigns in Tallahassee since 1992

Welcome!Posted by daHeadRat on May 1st, 2008

Welcome to Fat Rat Games of Tallahassee. You can find basic information about the campaigns hosted by FRG as well as the random musings of your host, da Head Rat (aka Tim). If you’d like to know a little more about FRG or some of our old campaigns, check out the tabs across the top of the page. There are also various links over to the right leading to various gaming blogs and other gaming sites. If you’d like to join in and comment on anything, feel free to register.

Next up…Pathfinder (sort of)Posted by daHeadRat on August 15th, 2008

The group is about to wrap up Keep on the Shadowfell. As numerous folks around the web have commented, it is, of course, rather heavy on the combat side of things (though not really that much more than a lot of published adventures). From a mechanics perspective, even though we’ve (or at least I’ve) had at least one or two “oops” moments each session, it has given us some good experience. I think (hope) it has also given me a better feel for how to use 4e for a more story-oriented game. Read the rest of this entry »

The A Posteriori Gestalt of 4ePosted by daHeadRat on July 3rd, 2008

Philosophers beware…I’m butchering your concepts mentioned in the title.

I’ve decided, after a few more sessions of 4e, that the game emphasizes an a posteriori gestalt while 3.5 emphasized the a priori part. So what the hell does that mean? In 3.5, everyone pretty much knew ahead of time what it meant each time some action occurred in the game. Read the rest of this entry »

FRG Goes 4ePosted by daHeadRat on May 22nd, 2008

This week marks my trial run with 4e. Starting Friday, I’ll be running the Keep on the Shadowfell preview adventure from Wizards of the Coast. I don’t look to this adventure to be the be-all and end-all of the 4e trial or to be as story-oriented as I prefer. I do hope, however, that it gives me (and my players) a good enough feel for the rules system to see if we can use the new rules for a good, story-oriented game. Read the rest of this entry »

Gnome Stew…Yummy!Posted by daHeadRat on May 13th, 2008

Gnome Stew is a new blog for GMs by GMs written by a number of experienced GMs. I’ve got a link to it over on the right there. I particularly like the “Don’t Fall For These RPG Arguments” article and have to say that I’d like to Read the rest of this entry »