Frontier: opening the book
I find myself thinking a lot about Frontier these days. (It’s probably because I have some self-imposed deadlines for ‘Illusion’...
COPS – Japan Stylee
Eamon, a technologist in the area of Cybernetics I know[1], posted this: “If you peruse Japanese foreign-resident forums you’ll read...
M&M2e: hero or zero?
Mutants and Masterminds gets a lot of airplay on the internet forums: any time someone asks about superhero games, a...
Transhumanism
In 1966, Transhuman was defined by F. M. Esfandiary (later, FM-2030) as: included physical and mental augmentations including prostheses, reconstructive...
Current games in development
As mentioned a few posts ago, here is a list of the games that have gone through our idea filter...
War of the Worlds: Earth concept art
Which do people like more? (See the comments for more info)
D&D 4th Edition – A lazy blog post
I decided to just post verbatim an IM conversation between the two of us about D&D 4th Edition. I make...
Lucky Ringo
Greg Stolze writes on his web page: What I learned … is that the best creative partnerships are the ones...
The 23rd Letter: in film?
Back in late 2006, I got a bit of a shock. Maybe you do as I do but I like...
How we design a role-playing game
I thought I’d share a bit about how our game design process works and (in a subsequent post) what we’re...
Game Developers and Publishers
I’ve just taken over editing of the Game Developers and Publishers area on dmoz. If you are in this arena...
Paper, PoD, PDF
All of the books we’ve published (whether as Crucible Design or LateGaming) have been less than 100 pages. In general,...
Game book layout: the four parts
In trying to layout some of our recent game projects, I’ve noticed some common components in every book, which has...
UFO files from The National Archives
Lots of PDFs, a video and an MP3. The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years...
Vader escapes custodial sentence
You couldn’t make thisup. “The judge was on the verge of sending the Dark Lord to prison for the maximum...
BRP
Let it be known that I hate BRP. (because I fumbled a dodge twice tonight and put myself out of...
Saur: introduction
Half a decade ago, when Crucible was still about, we tasked ourselves with a job to create games settings in...
The WhiteChapel Project – early history
The Project in Whitechapel was formed in September 1941 as a subsection of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The SOE...
RPGnet whiners strike again
I loathe it when the RPGnet whiner crew crawl out of the woodwork and accuse people of being passive aggressive...
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