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…[...]
Man vs…
The topic of conversation this morning in the car was the substance of plots. Traditionally, we have plots which are Man versus Man (and yes, I intend to keep the…[...]
The State of the RPG Industry
An article on MSNBC writes about the woes in the RPG market: "Wizards does not reveal sales figures, but Pramas estimates the overall market for traditional role-playing games at $30…[...]
So you want to be a writer
I got this from the blog of reknowned comic artist PJ Holden So you want to be a writer? Or do you want to make a living as a writer?[...]
Q-CON XIV video
The official video for Q-CON XIV was posted today: It's good to see it running as I did all the research for the first Q-CON by visiting cons around the…[...]
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…[...]
Top 10 Roleplaying Games of All Time
Just to confuse matters, these are in alphabetical order but to my mind they represent the absolute cream of the crop when it comes to roleplaying games. Amber - The…[...]
A hatred of self and the games that do it.
How many games put you in the role of playing Ordinary Joe? Not many. A recent thread on TheRPGSite talks about: Originally Posted by The RPG Cliche List Nephilim Law.…[...]
Art:
northerain is the blog of the artist behind Bloodsong Media. I like his stuff which he describes as: My style is more or less based on existing photographs. I use…[...]
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…[...]
Top 5 reasons why D&D sucks
5. Roll-playing Game While not as bad as some systems (*cough* World of Darkness) in terms of the amount of dice you roll at one time, there are a lot…[...]
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…[...]
Do women look for more depth?
Inanna Jones writes a bit about this sexism thing here on the IrishGaming livejournal: So generalising remark: women look for more depth. I disagree with Inannajones. I think both men…[...]
Shakespeare at least had Viola.
Apparently, I'm exercising the power and privilege of my gender by criticising the idea that we should actually de-cliché a cliché in order to make everyone feel secure about themselves.…[...]
So I had to go ask some women….
The Bitter Guy calls this a really retarded response. Fair enough. It probably is retarded to point at something that's fucking stupid and say that's fucking stupid especially when the…[...]
More on sexism (plus registration and comments)
I've turned off registration for comments because it should be off. Bit of a mea culpa there. I am enjoying the discussion on sexism in RPGs which has been continued…[...]
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…[...]