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…[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

...I'd like to be recording a podcast. But that's, like, a heap of work.[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

Which do people like more? (See the comments for more info)[...]

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.[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

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…[...]

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 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…[...]

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…[...]