ZOMBI PDF for download
Here This is missing the art for the most part which I'm going to re-scan and insert into a later copy of the PDF as well as post on here…[...]
The Books again
Orders for the books have been trickling through which means that people are getting them into their hands. The Paypal links are working well and the post office is just…[...]
The Books
A few days ago I received some chilling and frankly angering news. We'd been distributed through Key20 for the last 18 months (and previous to that as well) and we'd…[...]
Fonts, fonts, my kingdom….
I'm having trouble identifying a font I used for the original printing of ZOMBI and this is the replacement I have come up with. The original was quite clean and…[...]
zombi
I've spent the last week working on the PDF version of zombi. I've been updating bits and pieces as well, adding in references for "Fast Zombies" and other things which…[...]
Zombi – out of stock at Key20!
I'm somewhat incredulous that Zombi is now out of stock at Key20 and will be preparing another shipment in the next week or so. I'm also going to work on…[...]
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…[...]
23rd Letter: Projects Campaigns
A Project-based campaign is as flexible as the players want. The G.M. may choose themes as he or she wants. PCs working for a Project are relieved of many of…[...]
The 23rd Letter
Balbinus on RPG.net responds to someone asking for sourcebooks about running a campaign about the whole concept of PSI powers: "IMO the best is a game called 23rd Letter, it's…[...]
New Downloads
Some people were looking for them so I've put some downloads on the books page: Wildtalents fanzine 1 60K PDF Wildtalents 3 fanzine 1.5MB PDF Wildtalents 5 fanzine 373K PDF…[...]
Crucible Design’s Games on Sale at Key20.
After what seems an age, the first roleplaying games I wrote are on sale again at Key20 SpaceNinjaCyberCrisis XDO The 23rd Letter ( RPG.net Review ) Zombi: The Earth Won't…[...]
Diddlysquat is dead
Mark notes that Diddlysquat is dead. I didn't know much about it, to be honest but reading the testimony of specky I'm reminded of lots of the silliness that went…[...]
Riffing off The 23rd Letter.
Ghost Whistler on RPG.net came up with a23rd Planet idea. He was riffing off the name of the game but it made me think tonight about: The 23rd Century Fast…[...]
r-Maps (and being ahead of the curve)
There's a lot of talk of relationship maps. I've been playing with the idea of an r-map for gaming for use as a player aid for a while. It really…[...]
Systems
A posting on RPGnet asks us to describe our homebrew systems. I ended up describing mine thusly. Maths-easy 2d6 comedy with either a manga/anime/mecha or zombie holocaust backdrop Qualitative success…[...]
Zombie Links
This isn't a link blog, but these are very fun. Zombie World News "ZombieWorldNews.com is , as far as we can tell, a departure from other Zombie sites. Instead of…[...]
Zombi Review
Jeff Rients writes about 5 old games he feels were overlooked. While I can agree with the ancient (James Bond, Lords of Creation) and the venerable (SpaceMaster) and perhaps even…[...]
TTN: Zombi
Tonight at TableTopNorth, I decided to eschew my plans of running 2300AD because, simply, the setup is massive and I don't know my players very well. They seemed to want…[...]
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…[...]
Crucible Design….looking back
When we started out, we thought of several names for the company. One was Aes Dana Publications and another was Apocryphal Games. We played with FarTooReal, considered LeannanSidhe and with…[...]