Die issue 2 is out this week. It’s from Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans and Clayton Cowles with design work by Rian Hughes and edits by Chrissy Williams. If you didn’t get the first issue, get on that now because this is a book that’s fiercely good and remarkably close to home. Firstly because of the cast. …
This blogpost was so nearly called I MADE A GAME WITH AN AWESOME CO-CREATOR! It may yet be part of a series called that. Because I did. Want to play it? After The War is a game of memetic science fiction horror. It’s Bravestarr in a minor key, Starfleet’s day after their worst day ever. …
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 …
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 …
Remember this? In addition, I keep ridiculously long email threads of ideas and note stuff down whenever something’s to hand. For example, there’s a really odd idea I’ve got for a single page RPG which currently exists only in an email to myself. I’m also teaching myself to back up off site. My computer …
Less than I should, more than I want to, used to be the answer here. While feedback is great, playtests are a profoundly uncomfortable experience. It’s literally people wandering around inside your head, turning stuff over, occasionally setting fire to things and wondering why you went with that shade for the walls. But, in the …
There’s pretty much no way to avoid the next couple of these to just be notebook porn, so let’s run with it. In no particular order, you’re seeing a couple of ‘OH GOD I MUST WRITE THIS DOWN NOW’ books, a storyboarding Moleskine I haven’t got a use for yet, a couple of blank …
As a foundation, these are the games and the lessons I learned from them: -Combat will absolutely kill you. Often in stupid ways. Avoid it where you can. -A game doesn’t, and shouldn’t, have to be entirely focused on combat-related characters. -A well constructed world will almost generate its own adventures. -Rule may help control …
April TTRPG Challenge Day 19: Game That’s Most Essential To Your Design?