Angela, Author at Fandible Actual Play Podcast

6 Nerdy Holiday Traditions for Grownups

Becoming an adult is hard, dear readers. Especially if you move away from family and find yourself in need of new traditions during the holidays. Big meals and complex holiday decorations feel like too much effort when thereâ€™s only one or two of you gathering to roast chestnuts by the open fire. Whether youâ€™re building new traditions from scratch, or just want something to help fill out the holiday season, here are 6 nerdy traditions to consider adding to your repertoire this holiday season.

A Gaming Year in Review – and Looking Ahead to 2015!

December 10, 2014 Angela 19 Comments

Around this time last year, in one of our occasional attempts to get organized, we sat down and made a giant list of all the games we wanted to play in 2014. It was a massive list of 25 games – basically enough to have every weekend in 2014 planned before we rolled a single…

3 Character Creation Tips for GMs

November 12, 2014 Angela 0 Comments

Picture your group before the start of a new game, when pencils are freshly sharpened and character sheets are crisp and temporarily free of pizza stains. The players are eagerly passing the rule book back and forth, or immersed in the PDF on their tablet. Whatâ€™s the GM doing? Eating pizza, drinking a beer, and…

5 Monsters for your Halloween Role Playing Game

October 22, 2014 Angela 5 Comments

Itâ€™s the most wonderful time of the year – a time of ghosts and goblins and all things spooky! Halloween is the perfect time for pulling out a new horror game, but if youâ€™re in the middle of a non-horror campaign, thereâ€™s still room to get in the spirit of the season. Here are five monsters that will give your players a scare no matter the setting.

How to Build a Superhero

October 15, 2014 Angela 9 Comments

Ever wish you could be a superhero? We don’t have irradiated spiders or super soldier serum, but we do have three easy to play tips for creating the perfect superhero persona in your favorite supers RPG.

Happy Birthday Fandible! – Four Years of Actual Play Podcasting

September 24, 2014 Angela 3 Comments

While it may seem like Fandible has always existed in some dark corner of the internet, or that we sprung fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus, in reality Fandible made its internet debut four years ago this Friday, with a little game called Dark Heresy. Please allow us to indulge ourselves a bit as the Fandible crew shares their favorite memories.

5 Reasons I Love Historical RPGs

September 10, 2014 Angela 6 Comments

Itâ€™s no secret: I love RPGs with a solid historical base. Luckily, I have a group of fellow gamers that indulges me for the most part, even if our historical games come with a liberal sprinkling of fantastical tropes. But whether weâ€™re sitting down for some neo-Victorian Gothic Horror or Iâ€™m leading the way through another pulpy romp, nothing gets me excited like some historical accuracy.

The Crusading Widower: Drax the Destroyer Meets Unhallowed Metropolis

August 6, 2014 Angela 5 Comments

Another summer, another batch of comic book movies to analyze. This weekend, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy broke box office records with its band of lovable misfits. Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Racoon and Groot all wormed their way into crowd’s hearts, but it was Drax the Destroyer that reminded Angela of a favorite Fandible PC.

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