filed in Gaming, RPG Design, Role-Playing Games on Mar.08, 2010
We got to sit down and make a couple of characters for Machine Age Production’s new RPG, Maschine Zeit. So far, it looks like it’s going to be a techno-thriller/horror-ish kind of game, along the lines of Event Horizon. I think. Kinda. There are apparently actual ghosts in the machines.
filed in Gaming, RPG Design, Role-Playing Games on Mar.05, 2010
t’s not often that I go to the RPG.Net forums for inspiration, but I had this idea for tweaking the Virtue and Vice system in World of Darkness, and, fortunately, had the forethought to Google it first. The almighty Goog linked me to this thread, featuring a post by Evil Hat’s own Rob Donoghue. And here I was, thinking I was being original. Well, no matter. I’m going to cop out and post this anyway.
filed in Dystropolis, Gaming, RPG Design, Role-Playing Games on Feb.19, 2010
As I mentioned before, I’m writing an RPG. I don’t plan on having it finished within 40 days, that would be crazy, but I think I can get a darn good start on a draft, at least. If nothing else, it’ll get the ball rolling.
The game I’m working on, tentatively titled Dystropolis, is a transhumanist-themed [...]
filed in Articles, Gaming, Response, Role-Playing Games on Feb.09, 2010
DriveThruRPG, an online marketplace for traditional dice-and-paper roleplaying games, recently conducted a fund-raising program in the wake of the devastating earthquake that affected Haiti. The effort resulted in an amount of $178,900.00 being wired to the international relief organization, Doctors Without Borders.
filed in Gaming, RPG Design, Role-Playing Games on Feb.03, 2010
I’ve been thinking of ways to revitalize my blogging. Usually, I find myself unable to keep myself interested in whatever it is that I happen to be doing, hence the lack of updates. Fortunately, I had some ideas that might just make me keep this thing up to date. At least for a while.
One of [...]
filed in Articles, Gaming, Ramblings, Role-Playing Games on Dec.04, 2009
This post made me start thinking, despite not having created a complete game, much less published one, about how the business of the RPG industry should be approached.
I haven’t really gotten to play Diaspora yet, but the decision by the creators to not publish a PDF until they can present the file as a product [...]
filed in Gaming, RPG Design, Random, Role-Playing Games, Updates on Dec.04, 2009
Since TMD is on hiatus until things get settled, I’ve decided I’m going to try and go back to updating this blog. I’ve got a couple of projects that I’ve been toying with, and some thoughts on games that I’ve been playing that are floating around unarticulated in my head. So, since I have the [...]
filed in Conventions, Role-Playing Games on May.22, 2009
For the third year in a row, Kristin and I are heading to KublaCon in Burlingame, CA.
Fri 12:45 pm – We meant to be leaving for the con in an hour or so. Two of our jobs got cancelled and replaced with a single job that probably won’t start until 3 or 4. We will [...]
filed in Gaming, RPG Design, Role-Playing Games, Updates on Mar.13, 2009
So, it’s Friday the 13th, and I just got laid off today.
Of course, we’re in the midst of a wicked recession (in case you ain’t heard), and it wasn’t just me, so there’s really no hard feelings. Fortunately for me, my wife owns her own company, and she’s offered to let me help her out, [...]
filed in Dresden Files Playtest, Gaming, Role-Playing Games on Nov.24, 2008
I still need to work on getting all of the different characters posted. It should be easier now that I have everyone’s sheets sitting in my pile of gaming stuff. Expect those in the next couple of days.
In the meantime, though, we did play our playtest sessions of the actual game. Mostly, we used the [...]
