April 2024 – lategaming

New and Shiny: Enhanced: Super Soldiers in the Twilight War

We just released Enhanced. This one has been a long time in the making and, due to the amount of art (all done by humans), the most expensive book we…

matt April 18, 2024

23rd Letter Game Design In-Character

A Hopeful Ending and a New Beginning

We played our final session of The 23rd Letter play test this week, and wrapped up the story of Poppy and her baby. After recuperating overnight (under Joy's watchful care,…

AJ April 10, 2024

Commentary

FASERIP generator

Back when I was running the Watchtower New England game using Marvel Super Heroes' FASERIP system, I wrote a simple character generator. I found it recently, and thought I'd pop…

AJ April 6, 2024

Commentary

Whither Krull?

In this 1983 science-fantasy movie, the planet Krull is invaded by an extraterrestrial conqueror known as The Beast who moves his space-capable stone dwelling (the Black Fortress) from planet to…

matt April 4, 2024

Game Design Rise of R'lyeh

Rise of R’lyeh Character Sheet

We have a character sheet for Rise of R'lyeh now.

matt April 2, 2024

Game Design Rise of R'lyeh

Rise of R’lyeh – Apocalyptic Mythos Horror

Playtest copies currently available Rise of R'lyeh is designed to work with the Year Zero Engine (Step Dice) shared by games like Twilight 2000, Bladerunner, Terminal Shock, The 23rd Letter…

matt April 1, 2024

23rd Letter Game Design In-Character

Venting Pyrokinetics

Our fourth and fifth in-game sessions of the 23rd Letter saw quite a lot of action! I'll give a brief summary, and then talk about some of the rules that…

AJ April 1, 2024