Horror is a good portion of my day job. As the host of PseudoPod, one of the first original genre fiction podcasts, every week my job is simple; get on stage, introduce a nightmare and then once its done talk about why and how it works. Its a little like Tony Stark’s amazing holographic work …
After the War, the tabletop RPG I’ve been developing for the last couple of years with the amazing Jason Pitre, is crowdfunding as we speak/read/type! As part of the project, I’ll be posting regular essays about the background and design over the next month. Starfleet’s Worst Day Let’s plot some cultural compass points and let’s …
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 …
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 …
I do a lot of work for the Doctor Who RPG. In fact I’ve just finished a chunk of stuff for the upcoming Dinosaurs & Spaceships book which allowed me to put something very odd under the Natural History Museum and give the Silurians their Richard III. I love this job. Not just because …