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, 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 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, Indie RPGs on Oct 18th, 2007
Rob Wieland has written a review on RPG.net for 44: A Game of Automatic Horror. He introduces his review with this funny quip:
The maker of Dust Devils tries his hand at a body snatcher game. Pending this positive review, I am unsure as to whether or not I have been replaced by a robot yet.
Read [...]
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 Heads or Tales, Indie RPGs on Apr 19th, 2007
It’s been a while since I talked with Ron Edwards. He called me last night, and we spent our usual time shooting the breeze about everything under the sun. Games, politics, mutual friends, kids. We usually commiserate about some inane bullshit, then get all excited about something in the indie scene, then commiserate again about [...]
Posted in General, Heads or Tales, Indie RPGs, Theory on Dec 18th, 2006
I’m currently reading a book called Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett. Dennett’s a brilliant contemporary philosopher. His book is about evolution and religion, which is very interesting to me, personally. But, page 126 of his book has something that should be very interesting for anyone who’s into Narrativism (i.e. [...]
Posted in Heads or Tales, Indie RPGs on Dec 5th, 2006
I really need to check out The Esoterrorists, a new RPG by Robin Laws. Robin’s a great guy, and a great game designer. I’ve met him, and I’ve long admired his games. Among his designs are Over the Edge (with Jonathan Tweet), Rune, Feng Shui, The Dying Earth, and far and away my favorite of [...]
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