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' and '6'.) Over the last couple of years I've harvested…[...]
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 a depressing amount of stories about foreigners being told to…[...]
Tonight…
...I'd like to be recording a podcast. But that's, like, a heap of work.[...]
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 raft of people come out of the woodwork to impose…[...]
Transhumanism
In 1966, Transhuman was defined by F. M. Esfandiary (later, FM-2030) as: included physical and mental augmentations including prostheses, reconstructive surgery, intensive use of telecommunications, a cosmopolitan outlook and a…[...]
Current games in development
As mentioned a few posts ago, here is a list of the games that have gone through our idea filter and dropped down into the Book Development stage. If you're…[...]
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 no apologies for my laziness.[...]
Lucky Ringo
Greg Stolze writes on his web page: What I learned ... is that the best creative partnerships are the ones where each of you thinks the other guy is doing…[...]
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 to beachcomb through Google and see what people are saying…[...]
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 currently working on. This is not necessarily the best way…[...]
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 and want your site listed there, please submit it through…[...]
Paper, PoD, PDF
All of the books we've published (whether as Crucible Design or LateGaming) have been less than 100 pages. In general, this has felt big enough for the game that was…[...]
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 led me to the conclusion that every game book really…[...]
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 1978–2002. So if you want to find out more about…[...]
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 possible term but abruptly changed his mind when Vader lifted…[...]
BRP
Let it be known that I hate BRP. (because I fumbled a dodge twice tonight and put myself out of action both times.) Really made me feel like a great…[...]
Saur: introduction
Half a decade ago, when Crucible was still about, we tasked ourselves with a job to create games settings in one week and bring them back to the fold. The…[...]
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 was directed to encourage espionage behind enemy lines and build…[...]
RPGnet whiners strike again
I loathe it when the RPGnet whiner crew crawl out of the woodwork and accuse people of being passive aggressive with the threat of bringing down the mods. You can't…[...]