Category Archives: Industry

Top 10 Roleplaying Games of All Time

Posted on August 20, 2007 by matt

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 godchild of Zelazny’s novels, Amber brought us some really innovative … Continue reading →

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A hatred of self and the games that do it.

Posted on May 30, 2007 by matt

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. In modern-day occult games, mortal humans are considered to have … Continue reading →

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Art:

Posted on April 28, 2007 by matt

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 those to paint over them in photoshop. Since they’re not … Continue reading →

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Diddlysquat is dead

Posted on April 27, 2007 by matt

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 on within Crucible Design. In the end, projects like this … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Conventions, Industry, LateGaming | 3 Comments

Riffing off The 23rd Letter.

Posted on April 23, 2007 by matt

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 forward events in The 23rd Letter by two hundred years … Continue reading →

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Top 5 reasons why D&D sucks

Posted on March 30, 2007 by AJ

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 of rolls for resolving single tasks. There are so many … Continue reading →

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r-Maps (and being ahead of the curve)

Posted on March 22, 2007 by matt

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 started to surface when playing superhero games in order to … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Game Design, LateGaming, Qabal | 5 Comments

Systems

Posted on March 17, 2007 by matt

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 using 0-3d10 to create a crunchy yet narrative system which … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Game Design, LateGaming, Qabal, Viride | 15 Comments

Zombie Links

Posted on March 9, 2007 by matt

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 the reader being a spectator, we hope to draw you … Continue reading →

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Do women look for more depth?

Posted on March 3, 2007 by matt

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 and women look for depth. The depth is just in … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare at least had Viola.

Posted on March 3, 2007 by matt

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. (Question: if a cliché is de-fanged, doesn’t it become meaningless?) … Continue reading →

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So I had to go ask some women….

Posted on March 3, 2007 by matt

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 stupid thing is something that is “pro feminisim”. Yes. Terrifyingly … Continue reading →

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More on sexism (plus registration and comments)

Posted on March 2, 2007 by matt

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 on thedeadone.net and Mary’s blog. I wrote: “Some game companies … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Industry, Out-of-Character, TTN | 5 Comments

It’s about starting conversations with new people

Posted on March 2, 2007 by matt

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 went and read the Late Gaming post, and it’s so … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Game Design, Industry, Out-of-Character | 2 Comments

If Jesus had tits, would you believe in God?

Posted on March 1, 2007 by matt

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, Jungle Lord, Man of Mystery and not Gadget Girl, Lady … Continue reading →

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Would I GM for money?

Posted on February 24, 2007 by matt

There’s a bloke on StoryGames who’s advertising his new business: Will GM for money. The price is $50.00 per month of weekly play, as of the 23rd of Febuary, the price is $10.00 per week payable in advance, which including … Continue reading →

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James Wallis is back. And you thought he was just tall.

Posted on February 21, 2007 by matt

James Wallis, poster boy for the health benefits of vegetarianism and one of the nicest blokes I know now has his own blog. James will always be welcome at my table. I do mean dinner table because it would be … Continue reading →

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1st Transatlantic Setting Design Challenge

Posted on November 28, 2006 by matt

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 judge. As a commenter on that page put it: “It’s … Continue reading →

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Legendary Vapourware thread…

Posted on November 24, 2006 by matt

Not really sure whether I’m pleased or depressed…. But Qabal and The Project Sourcebook didn’t make the grade for this list on RPGnet of Legendary Vapourware even though it’s 9 pages long!. Of course, they’re too wrapped up in wondering … Continue reading →

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I need a concept artist

Posted on November 21, 2006 by matt

I hate the fact that I’m crap at drawing. I can describe stuff but I’m finding more and more that I want to find a concept artist. I want to have some images to post with the content I’m writing. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Commentary | 4 Comments