Tonight I was interviewed by the Harboiled GMshoe, Dan Davenport https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2024/09/22/qa-matt-johnston-rise-of-rlyeh/ We talked about the recent release of Rise of R’lyeh and touched on some recent books we have released.…[...]
So, where did this one come from? Communists in the Funhouse is a euphemism used in Denmark to describe a woman who's at a certain stage of her menstrual cycle.…[...]
So far I’ve posted two entries for the Jam The first is....Talking to Dragons This is the base system for "Tales of Distant Lands" and could be considered a QuickStart…[...]
On one of the forums was the question about building Star Trek from scratch. Of course there's always Frontier. but I#d really like to run a Culture game ? What…[...]
Get it now on DTRPG "Everything looks like a monster in the fog." - Aki Bahrampour INTRODUCTION: As the last offensive failed, the brass decided to wheel out their last,…[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
AJ built this YZE dice roller on the site so we have a super quick way of rolling dice and collecting successes. It's the only one that works for Step…[...]
I guess it depends where you sit. We live in a post-scarcity civilisation (we have the technology), we just don’t live in a post-scarcity society. Scarcity is manufacturered. So are…[...]
#ttrpgDesign #ttrpg #T2K4e #xiongguo? So, we begin the playtest for Xiongguo (working title) next week. ?I’ve added some additional rules which are pilfered from other systems. ?Xiongguo is a simple,…[...]
And now we are on Fediverse/Mastodon.[...]
The recent posts about Watchtower were from a one-shot adventure I ran for my son's gaming group. They've been playing (mostly) D&D together regularly for 3-4 years, and it was…[...]
In an attempt to calm this raging passion I have for writing, I've begun to embark on putting my books on DriveThruRPG - the pre-eminent site for selling RPGs online.…[...]
After the fire raged through, we took the UAZ through a small town land on the outskirts of Warsaw. The bushes and trees and grass were still burning. I saw…[...]
When I conceived Frontier it wasn't the way it is now. There was a little collaboration from others and everyone had their own idea what it would become. For one…[...]
[video width="720" height="720" mp4="http://www.lategaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/joined_video_f42d10bab4f042259b701b8dd56e772a.mp4"][/video] I've created a little python script for working with the Alien RPG map. It just calculates the distance between star systems based on the included Data…[...]
It's pretty interesting reading. Pop along here for the series. My reply? While I enjoyed reading this incredibly nerdy analysis of the battle for Gondor, The author forgets several points.…[...]
We've run two sessions of the Aliens RPG for Graham, Jim, Mike and Barry and we've had a heap of fun. I've run the starter adventure (Cinematic) and we're just…[...]
For the last few months, the lategaming web site has been offline - this has been for a combination of reasons. I wasn't getting much gaming done I wasn't getting…[...]
For the last few months, on top of travelling and attending a bazillion courses, I've been writing. I've written five short scripts in the world of THE 23RD LETTER. I've…[...]