How we design a role-playing game
I thought I’d share a bit about how our game design process works and (in a subsequent post) what we’re...
Game Developers and Publishers
I’ve just taken over editing of the Game Developers and Publishers area on dmoz. If you are in this arena...
Paper, PoD, PDF
All of the books we’ve published (whether as Crucible Design or LateGaming) have been less than 100 pages. In general,...
Game book layout: the four parts
In trying to layout some of our recent game projects, I’ve noticed some common components in every book, which has...
UFO files from The National Archives
Lots of PDFs, a video and an MP3. The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years...
Vader escapes custodial sentence
You couldn’t make thisup. “The judge was on the verge of sending the Dark Lord to prison for the maximum...
BRP
Let it be known that I hate BRP. (because I fumbled a dodge twice tonight and put myself out of...
Saur: introduction
Half a decade ago, when Crucible was still about, we tasked ourselves with a job to create games settings in...
The WhiteChapel Project – early history
The Project in Whitechapel was formed in September 1941 as a subsection of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The SOE...
RPGnet whiners strike again
I loathe it when the RPGnet whiner crew crawl out of the woodwork and accuse people of being passive aggressive...
Things like this inspire games
NASA media announcement I can think of a half-dozen things that would make a great game. It’s not going to...
Resolutions: Dealing with Canon and Context
Canon is the past in the play. It establishes facts which have gone before. It doesn’t mean it can’t be...
systems, systems, systems
Is it right to design another system for a game? At the moment we’re still writing War of the Worlds,...
Ransom
The idea of ransoming game material is definitely new and innovative. It’s being done rather successfully by Greg Stolze for...
23L Superhumans
Having some spare time yesterday evening I resurrected some of my notes for ‘superpowers’ in T23L. It wasn’t part of...
The Stars Are Right….over there….
The Internet STELLAR DATABASE is a lot of fun. Look at the entry for Barnard’s Star especially the submits at...
Hawt babes of Star Trek: The Original Series
Flickr link We will NOT be using these as guidelines for aliens represented in Refugee and Frontier.
Status: Refugee – Timeline
Here’s a snippet of some of the stuff I’m writing for Status: Refugee. It hasn’t been okay’ed by Aidan yet...
Mutants and Masterminds.
Every now and then, someone asks on the RPG.net forums… What’s the best supers game? and every time the Mutants...
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