A picture is worth a thousand words. Literally.
It's always been a frustration to me that I can't draw. Jared and I have debated this a few times during my forays to Paris. Nightfall had the advantage of…[...]
Status: Refugee – A beginning
They repurposed I-90 into a massive people-processing line, putting you through checkpoint after checkpoint. This one for DNA scan, the next one for ID verification, the next for health assessment--the…[...]
WotW: Earth – System Proposal
Here's a simple system that would get a WotW: Earth game up and running. Before I go into the details, here's what was going through my head as I designed…[...]
WotW: Earth – The Martian Outpost
In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with…[...]
System junkie
I looked up the definition of the word junkie. It says "Drug addict, esp. heroin", and the term gets used to describe addicts to anything - adrenaline, sports, whatever. I…[...]
It’s about starting conversations with new people
I started a little storm in a teacup with my last post. Even got someone else linking to me. And some of the comments on that posting (e.g. "Enh, I…[...]
If Jesus had tits, would you believe in God?
On mer writes about rpgs we find an opine about how it's such a shame that the pulp-rpg "Spirit of the Century" included archetypes such as: Gadget Guy, Gentleman Criminal,…[...]
WotW: Earth – Air Superiority
"They've gone away across London," he said. "I guess they've got a bigger camp there. Of a night, all over there, Hampstead way, the sky is alive with their lights.…[...]
WotW: Earth – London
"And as I looked at this wide expanse of houses and factories and churches, silent and abandoned; as I thought of the multitudinous hopes and efforts, the innumerable hosts of…[...]
My Superhero Game.
I'm not happy with the current crop of superhero games. My favourite is Advanced Marvel Superheroes from TSR which is nearly 20 years old. It's certainly the most flexible and…[...]
Cherry Hinton
I have a friend who looks just like Cherry Hinton. No, not the town. The character Jared Earle used to play in SLA Industries who was nicely illustrated by Dave…[...]
One sentence settings…
This is kinda reminiscent of the "Six Word Stories" posting from a while back and also acts as a reminder for you to go read Story-Games. Just do it. It's…[...]
WotW: Earth – Bows against the Lightning
"Forthwith the six guns which, unknown to anyone on the right bank, had been hidden behind the outskirts of that village, fired simultaneously. The sudden near concussion, the last close…[...]
WotW: Earth – Progress
I don't know if anyone is even reading this :) Certainly doesn't look like it in the comments. I've got two more WotW articles on the back-burner. About the actual…[...]
WotW: Earth – The Red Men
The tragic story of a face-eating fungus on Youtube and another about mind-controlling fungi has pushed me to write a little about the Red Men. "The church bells were ringing…[...]
WotW: Earth – Here is the News
"At the corner of the bridge, too, I saw one of the common contrasts of that grotesque time--a sheet of paper flaunting against a thicket of the red weed, transfixed…[...]
Writing elsewhere…
A few days ago, a d20 supplement author had a little kvetch about getting bad ratings on RPGnow. One of his reviews was very constructive, the second was written by…[...]
1st Transatlantic Setting Design Challenge
This post on Story Games I find quite exciting. A month to design a game, using a previously published system? And the additional commitment of having to also be a…[...]
Differing Methods of Character Generation
Over the last few years I've come to appreciate different methods of character generation. I'm not especially keen on point allocation systems due to concerns that they are unrealistic because…[...]
Origins of The 23rd Letter
Syndicate... As mentioned earlier, it started out as a psionics ruleset for a sci-fi corporate espionage game called Syndicate which was masterminded by John. Syndicate was never published and indeed…[...]