AGON Spears & Glory
“Heroes, my anger is hot within me! Slay those who defile my shrine! Cleanse my temple! Let not one escape the wrath of Hera!” What’s coming up next from Lame Mage? I’m working on a series of...
View ArticleSpears & Playtesting
Interested in playtesting some upcoming Agon adventures? Now’s your chance. I’ve already run them, but I like having outside groups do “blind” playtests so I get an objective opinion of whether they...
View ArticleTemple of Hera goes to playtesting
Our first Agon adventure, Temple of Hera, is now in playtesting and peer review. If you listen carefully you can hear the clash of bronze and the anguished cries of heroes as their comrades bludgeon...
View ArticleTemple of Hera released
Oh, I know: you wanted to run some Agon this weekend, but work got kind of crazy, and you had a lot of errands to run and blah blah blah so you didn’t have any time to prepare. Well now you have no...
View ArticleBeast of Kolkoris in playtesting
Fresh on the heels of Temple of Hera, our next Agon adventure Beast of Kolkoris has gone to playtesting. When I originally ran the game it set the record for “most Fate spent in a single quest” among...
View ArticleBeast of Kolkoris unleashed
“Wretched man! Short indeed are the memories of mortals, that you O king should stand in this shrine and without shame ask for a father’s blessing! You who gave your first daughter in sacrifice to the...
View ArticleAdvanced Agon: Deeper Quests
Agon includes a quick and painless way to get a quest started: a god descends from Olympus and says “hey, you, go do this thing!” (well, technically three things and you pick which one to do first)...
View ArticleAdvanced Agon: Wrath of the Gods
“Is it pious because the gods love it, or do the gods love it because it’s pious?” – Plato I was having brunch with Ping and John Harper, so naturally talk turned to the complicated relationships...
View ArticleAdvanced Agon: Three Flavors of Myth
I admit it: when I’m running Agon I’m a stickler for Classical Greek style. I don’t just want D&D with spears or a fuzzy Xena-barbarian analog, I want it to feel like mythic Greece. Hubris,...
View ArticleMissing In Agon
If you’re wondering where the Advanced Agon posts are, I moved them over to ars ludi where I should have put them in the first place. Deeper Quests and Wrath of the Gods are already there and a third...
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