Narrative Play

Goodbye, 8th edition: The best games I played in the best edition (so far)

I started playing Warhammer 40,000 in the summer of 1996 with the release of Codex: Chaos in 2nd edition. From then I played pretty regularly through about 2003 when, disgusted with the 4th edition Codex: Chaos Space Marines and...

The Narrative Forge: Making Your Own Characters, Part 3 – the Random Personality Generator!

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

The Narrative Forge: Making Your Own Characters, Part 2 – Writing Good Characters

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

The Narrative Forge: Making Your Own Characters, Part 1 – The Rules

There’s more to gaming life than the endless core gameplay loop of rulebook missions and ITC events! In the Narrative forge, we explore Narrative Play, looking for ways to tell stories on the tabletop and enhance play experiences by...

The Narrative Forge

There's more to gaming life than the endless core gameplay loop of rulebook missions and ITC events! In the Narrative forge, we explore Narrative Play, looking for ways to tell stories on the tabletop and enhance play experiences by...

The Narrative Forge: Campaigns, Part 7 – Map Campaigns

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

Goonhammer Approved Mission: The Devouring of Chipotle IV

Here we go with another mission in the extremely serious Goonhammer Approved series, where the Goonhammer crew present new, exciting scenarios to liven up your game nights. Today Chris "head58" Tatro delivers a spicy dish for Adeptus Titanicus Narrative...

Necromunday: Starting a Campaign

Welcome back, scummers! Here at the Goonhammer offices we’ve received a number of requests recently to talk more about campaigns and now that we’re done with our gang guide-related obligations, we can finally talk about everything you need to...

Narrative Forge: Making Your Campaigns A Success

You know how we dissect every part of the competitive meta on this site? Really get into the reeds about what owns, what does not own about a codex? Talk about the best way to win ITC games? You...

The Narrative Forge: Battles of Legend

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...