I’m now in Week 7 of #Facility23 and it’s become part of my daily creative process. The idea is to write a single room or location in a TTRPG environment every weekday and it’s going great! It’s teaching me a lot about process too and how to do very nearly everything I do better. Here …
Something a little different today. My original plan was to use an extra Story Engine draw for #horror23 and these are the cards I got. I took these and wrapped them around the Corn Exchange in Leeds, which is an irrationally beautiful building I worked in for a while. A friend once described it as …
I’ve been having great fun with Facility23 as a daily writing challenge and as we start to head to the end of the first month, now’s a good time to give you an idea of the setting. I’m writing it for After the War, the game my buddy Jason Pitre and co-created because it’s a …
It’s Monday, let’s talk stationary. First off isn’t the logo cool?! Lone Archivist put together a pack of logos for #Dungeon23 and #Facility23. Go check them out. Last time I talked about the #Facility23 challenge and what I’m getting from it. This time, I’m going to talk about what I’m using to capture the information …
I built a monastery the other day. Perched on the mile-wide weld ridge between two asteroids, St. Padddd’s is home to an Ursan (Think Fozzy Bear meets Chewbacca) monastic order who’ve dedicated their lives to helping others. St. Padddd’s is part of the Temenos Ark, an emergency evacuation vessel the size of a small moon …
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 …
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 …