Negative Space: North Texas RPG Con
- Kolchak’s Big Sister at North Texas 2025
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Kolchak and Friends will be back at the North Texas RPG Con in 2025 for an Ides of March that will have you asking dux femina facti? in one of the weirdest Kolchak adventures ever.
- Flashing Blades at North Texas, 2025
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I’ll be running Flashing Blades again at North Texas this year, in a game called l’Entreprenante l’Entreprenante, pitting 1705 Naval officers against 23rd century Mirror Universe Imperial Officers.
- A revised timeline for Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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When did the Night Stalker and Night Strangler movies take place? When did the television series episodes take place? The internal evidence is a mess, but it is possible to construct a relatively believable timeline from the evidence, usable for an RPG campaign.
- In Honor of Jack “Bones” Burton
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High school biology teacher Jack Burton’s dream job was driving a truck across country where the only people he’d have to talk to will be on the other end of a CB radio.
- Kolchak: The Wrong Goodbye (a Daredevils adventure)
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Kolchak and crew investigates strange murders during the 1976 Christmas season. Inspired by “real” Soviet research as reported in UFO magazines of the era.
- Kolchak’s Cold January at North Texas 2024
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I’ll be running another Kolchak: The Night Stalker game at North Texas in 2024, again using the Daredevils rules from Fantasy Games Unlimited. We finally move into 1977 for the great Chicago freeze!
- Flashing Blades at NTRPGC 2024
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I’ll be running a game of Flashing Blades on Wednesday at North Texas 2024.
- A Kolchak Christmas at North Texas 2023
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I’ll be running another Kolchak: The Night Stalker game at North Texas in 2023, again using the Daredevils rules from Fantasy Games Unlimited.
- Kolchak is back, baby! At North Texas 2022
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I’ll be running another Kolchak: The Night Stalker game at North Texas in 2022, again using the Daredevils rules from Fantasy Games Unlimited.
- Daredevils NPC generator
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Part 1 of 2: a script to calculate Daredevils attributes, talents, skills, and stats from a text file of initial values and character development.
- Daredevils Detailed Action Time and Action Options Cube
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The Fantasy Games Unlimited game Daredevils, from 1982, has a very interesting combat turn system. Plus, an Action-Option cube you can assemble yourself!
- Blackhawk: Blitzkrieg at North Texas RPG Con
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I’ll be running first edition DC Heroes at North Texas in 2020, on June 4.
- House on Crane Hill at North Texas 2019
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I’ll be running House on Crane Hill on Thursday evening at North Texas this year. If you enjoy the old Haunting-inspired books and movies, come and join us!
- Surprise and initiative in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
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For the North Texas Role-Playing Game Convention’s tenth anniversary, I ran an AD&D game; the hardest part was re-figuring out how initiative and surprise work.
- Rolling random levels across a range of experience points in AD&D
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I’m going to North Texas again, and this time I’m going to run an AD&D game for levels 4-6. How can I roll a random number of experience points that will only produce characters of level 4, 5, or 6 regardless of class?
- North Texas RPG Con Event: House on Crane Hill
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I’ll be running a new Gods & Monsters adventure at the North Texas RPG Con this June. “House on Crane Hill” is a Hill House-style mashup and homage about a house that was literally born evil.
- North Texas RPG Con 2016
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NTRPG Con is a relatively small gaming-only convention focused on old-school games.
More Information
- Kolchak: The Wrong Goodbye
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“Carl Kolchak and guest stars investigate Chicago’s 1976 Christmas murders using the Daredevils RPG from Fantasy Games Unlimited.”
- Kolchak: The Big Creep (NTRPG Signup)
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“Carl Kolchak and guest stars investigate strange happenings at Illinois State Technical Institute, using FGU’s Daredevils RPG.”
- Blackhawk: Blitzkrieg! signup
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“Deep behind enemy lines, the Blackhawk Squadron faces its most challenging mission as the Nazi war machine struggles to achieve world conquest.”
