Ron McClung – Page 115 – Seawolf's Den

The Dawn Colonies

Posted on October 27, 2014August 10, 2026 by Ron McClung

I asked John Watts once what TV show he would relate his setting to. I predicted correctly that he feels it was most like Firefly. In many ways, it really has that feel – the grittiness, and the feeling of being a western in space. However, at the same time, it addresses a lot of the things that Firefly and the subsequent RPGs ignored – the realism, the vastness of space and the isolation one planet can feel. It keep a lot of the adventure local, instead of planet hopping across the universe. It is that sense that makes it attractive to me.

Rapture – The End of Days RPG

Posted on October 27, 2014August 10, 2026 by Ron McClung

The Rapture has been the subject of various books and movies and all have approached it from a similar fashion – portraying it as something in the near and foreseeable future. No one that I have seen before this game has ventured out and asked the question “What if it happens way far in the future after man has found ways off this world?” Rapture: The End of Days is a game about that very thing.

Dungeons & Dragons: Player’s Handbook (5th Edition)

Posted on September 30, 2014August 10, 2026 by Ron McClung

Much has been said about the staggered release of the new D&D rulebooks and as much as I understand the complaints, I don’t really think it is all that big of deal in the grand scheme of things. Some say that the staggered release will hurt D&D’s chances of gaining any ground lost to Pathfinder but I seriously do not see it. Come December when the DMG is finally out, people are going to forget all about the staggered release and invest a lot of time in whatever game they choose.

Shadows Over Camelot, The Card Game

Posted on September 26, 2014August 10, 2026 by Ron McClung

Every once in a while, when I am running events at a convention, a dealer who knows me will drop off a game for me to check out. At ConGregate in Winston-Salem, NC, Dan of Walt’s Cards (out of Maryland) dropped off Shadows Over Camelot, The Card Game, a game based on a very good board game. I love the board game, so I was very intrigued about the card game.

Lost Mine of Phandelver

Posted on September 14, 2014August 10, 2026 by Ron McClung

System/Setting: D&D 5e/Forgotten Realms Ended: March 13, 2015 Tried my hand at D&D through the new version. This was a straightforward short campaign with very little depth and a lot of combat. My experience with D&D 5e was very pleasant but the adventure was just a little shallow for me.

S*D Externals in Fading Suns

Posted on September 12, 2014December 26, 2020 by Ron McClung

PROJECT STATUS: ON GOING Started writing up a series of articles that explains the Externals in Fading Suns terms. Inspired by the Fading Suns campaign I started on Wed nights, it is some of the best aspects of Star*Drive in Fading Suns.

Kontamination (RonCon Fall 2014)

Posted on September 6, 2014August 10, 2026 by Ron McClung

System/Setting: Savage Worlds/Achtung! Cthulhu Ran this at RonCon Fall 2014. Very cool adventure but hard to fit into a 4 hour session. Because the players have multiple identities, a lot of prep work is needed. My review of this adventure on JustUs Productions The Gamer’s Codex.

Alien, This time its War Redesign

Posted on August 27, 2014August 10, 2026 by Ron McClung

I tried to make the board game a little more flexible and I also upgraded to minis.

Cascadia Adventures 3 – Fled

Posted on August 5, 2014December 21, 2022 by Ron McClung

Cascadia has proven to be a fairly descent hotbed of adventuring with the previous two adventures in this series and this closes it out in similar fashion. In this adventure, the players have a great opportunity to do something big for the patron throughout the series and be greatly rewarded. Or if things don’t go well, they could end up with a considerable number of enemies and perhaps be blamed for a terrible crime.

Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set

Posted on August 5, 2014August 10, 2026 by Ron McClung

With much anticipation, the release of the 5th edition of the classic Dungeons & Dragons is upon us, with the first teaser product on the shelves – the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set. In the interest of full disclosure, I will say that I was not a huge fan of the major changes in 4th edition nor was I a fan of the abandonment of the SRD/OGL. I liked 3rd edition a lot, although I admit over time it got bloated with way too many rules, feats and classes. I am a fan of Pathfinder but it is running into the same problem D&D 3.5 did, in my opinion. I also did not play a lot of 1st or 2nd edition when I was younger, simply because there was not a lot of opportunity. I played other things like Star Frontiers and Powers & Perils.