Watch everything. Read everything. Play everything. Listen to everything. Always have a notebook with you. Never be afraid to riff on something you love. Own it but never be afraid to do it. Every GM on Earth has done it before you. Always be professional. With your peers and co-workers that’s regular communication, hitting deadlines, …
In terms of community I don’t really have one. Which sounds a bit ‘Sad going away music at the end of the Hulk’ I know but it’s not that bad. I don’t play very much, at all, at the moment but I do chat to folks regularly. Dave Moore, Gareth Michael Skarka, Tracy Barnett and Jason …
Wild Wild Country is the story of the catastrophic culture clash between the people of Antelope, Oregon and the Rajneeshee religious group in the early 1980s. It starts wild and gets wilder, the six episodes including a story about liquefying beavers that will haunt my nightmares, interviews with the people responsible for the first major bio …
This was massive fun to do, and goes into a lot of detail about my secret origins. Here’s my published work so far. If you want to talk to me about a project you’re hiring for, get in touch. Alternately, come say hi on Twitter and I’ll see you back here tomorrow.
Why choose just one?! I contacted a few folks and asked them this question: What is the single tip you’d give tabletop designers? Here are the answers. Jason Pitre My biggest tip would be to look for best practices in presenting games by examining how other games are designed, structured, and presented to readers. Dave …
In RPG terms, very little, which I’d love to change. Dissecting Worlds remains my favorite show for exploring narrative architecture and social science stuff(And we will get that Ian McShane Knight Rider made somehow, damn it!). I’d also recommend The Magnus Archives from The Rusty Quill (Especially episode 100 for…reasons) in general and their RPG show in …
Fun. For Everyone. That’s the most basic way I can describe it; your job is to be a transmission vector for fun. You have to take everything you know players will try and do, including the stupid game breaking bullshit, and work out how to tell a story that threads through all that to ensure …
One of the very first pro jobs I did was a Doctor Who adventure called Arrowdown. I got to use it as an example of how to build adventures in a presentation at WorldCon in 2017, which was pretty cool. What was maybe a touch cooler was that this adventure was short-listed for an ENnie …
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks making my way through the Netflix original science fiction slate. The Cloverfield Paradox is more interesting as a franchise component than as a (admittedly fun), movie, I’ve got work out this week that talks about Moon and Mute and Bright was also a movie I saw. Annihilation is both the highest profile film Netflix have got and …
There’s a short answer to that which is also a very long one; everyone who’s ever played one of my games or been involved in a tabletop RPG module with me in any way. The list below is not complete but these are the people whose assistance I am most sincerely, endlessly grateful for over …