Stories You Play
Posted in General, Heads or Tales, Indie Publishing, Indie RPGs on Apr 11th, 2008
This discussion among Clyde Rhoer, Luke Crane, Clinton Nixon, and Jason Morningstar is very important to things I’m interested in. And, they do a good job explaining reasons that I approach this hobby the way I do, including my previous posts about the subculture and Gary Gygax’s death. To put it into a quick summation: [...]
Posted in Heads or Tales, Indie Publishing, Indie RPGs on Mar 13th, 2008
Here are some games I think are pretty good options for playing with people outside the subculture of gamers. They aren’t grand-slam-homeruns guaranteed to convert masses into seeing the light and brilliance of role-playing. They’re just pretty good.
Prime Time Adventures
Contenders
Trollbabe
My Life With Master
It was a Mutual Decision
And, I offer up my own efforts:
Dust Devils
44: A [...]
Posted in Heads or Tales, Indie Publishing on Jan 29th, 2008
A play, to explain why I’m really fucking tired about arguing about people claiming indie RPG publishers don’t make a profit.
Some people: Well, you indie publishers are cute and all, but you’re not really making a “profit,” you amateurs you. Here’s why. See, profit is revenues minus expenses. And, you make nice revenues, I guess, [...]
Posted in Heads or Tales, Indie Publishing, Indie RPGs on Jan 17th, 2008
So, it’s unofficially In a Wicked Age week, well, everywhere. Vincent Baker’s newly released game promises to be a big hit. I’ve got the PDF already, and it’ll no doubt take upcoming Dreamation con in New Jersey by storm. More power to Vincent, too. It’s a rockin’ game, by all accounts.
Now, what kills me is the already [...]
Posted in Heads or Tales, Indie Publishing on Jan 9th, 2008
There was a time when I’d pursue any fun game design idea that popped into my head. But those ideas rarely went anywhere, either. Let alone reaching strangers, they didn’t live within my own groups’ actual play sessions.
Dust Devils came as one of those fun ideas to tinker with. But, then I found some success [...]
Posted in Graphic Design, Indie Publishing, Mirage on Nov 9th, 2007
When I start designing a new project, one of the first things I tackle is the look and feel. I have a blurry vision in my mind of what I want the project to look like, how I want it to feel. As the project develops, that vision starts to come into focus, bit by [...]
Posted in Graphic Design, Indie Publishing, Indie RPGs, Mirage, News on Nov 4th, 2007
I’m working on something new.
A couple weeks ago, Clinton R. Nixon’s gave the hobby a gift. He opened up the the license for The Shadow of Yesterday, one of my favorite games. So, I’m taking up his gift for my next project, Mirage.
I’ll be chronicling the graphic design of the Mirage book here in this blog. [...]
Posted in Indie Publishing, Indie RPGs, The Score on Oct 24th, 2007
Finally, The Score returns, alive and kicking! This is the second half of the interview with Seth Ben-Ezra, creator of Dirty Secrets and Legends of Alyria. We talk about board games, the influences of Reiner Knizia, fatherhood, and more.
Dark Omen Games
Dirty Secrets
Posted in 44, General, Indie Publishing, Indie RPGs, News on Oct 9th, 2007
This year at GenCon, Paul Czege and I spearheaded the Ashcan Front. We had a great time, and I think we’re both very pleased with the overall success of the booth.
Paul and I, along with Paul’s wife Danielle who was instrumental to the booth, talked about it with Clyde Rhoer, who does the Theory From the [...]
Posted in Dust Devils, Indie Publishing, The Score on Jul 27th, 2007
In episode 2 of The Score, I talk about my history as a role-playing hobbyist and how that lead to me designing and publishing my game Dust Devils. And, I share my take on how many hobbyists need to find games for their aging, changing lifestyle and how designers need to create for that need.
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Stories You Play
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