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Tales of Distant Lands – Fights

mattSep 18, 2024
Drennus is a Privean pirate who fights with a long blade. He’s matched against Blackfeather, a Saalian dockworker. Both have...
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Game DesignWhole New World

Whole New World: Seeking Artists

mattAug 29, 2024
The art for Enhanced or Through the Silver Gate doesn’t vibe well with Whole New World so I’m hunting for...
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Using Twilight 2000 Resources with Blade Runner

mattAug 27, 2024
Blade Runner is one of the published games by Free League which uses a version of the Year Zero Engine...
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New Release: Through The Silver Gate – a new alt-campaign for Twilight 2000

mattAug 27, 2024Oct 2, 2024
Through the Silver Gate is a new alt-campaign for Twilight 2000 cementing it as a flexible and practical modern task...
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Tales of Distant Lands Playtest: Group 2, Session 2 – AP

mattAug 21, 20241 Comment on Tales of Distant Lands Playtest: Group 2, Session 2 – AP
Once she was sure that everyone was asleep, Joy crept from her stuffed straw pallet and slipped out of the...
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The Fantasy War – putting the War in Wardrobe

mattAug 7, 2024Aug 7, 2024
I wrote some notes a while ago so forgive me for brevity. This morning on the bus….I kinda expanded them....
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Game Design

One Page RPG Jam 2024 – Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf

mattAug 3, 2024Aug 3, 2024
This is an examination of being a starfaring race in the Dark Forest. The idea of a violent and hostile...
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One Page RPG Jam 2024 – Communists in the Funhouse

mattAug 2, 2024
So, where did this one come from? Communists in the Funhouse is a euphemism used in Denmark to describe a...
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Game Design

One Page RPG Jam 2024 – We Go In – Saving the World when you’re not From The World

mattJul 30, 2024Jul 30, 2024
The third RPG I’ve posed to the Jam is WE GO IN The concept is being a disaster relief operative....
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Game Design

One Page RPG Jam 2024 – Chosen Men – “Sharpe” by any other name

mattJul 30, 2024
The second RPG I’ve posted for the Jam is Chosen Men This game is the “Sharpe” of RPGs. The idea...
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CommentaryGame Design

One Page RPG Jam 2024 – Talking to Dragons – an Earthsea-inspired RPG

mattJul 26, 2024Jul 30, 2024
So far I’ve posted two entries for the Jam The first is….Talking to Dragons This is the base system for...
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Game Design

One Page Game Jam 2024

mattJul 21, 2024
We will be hacking together some entries for the one page game jam over the coming month. Pop onto our...
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Public Update for Tales of Distant Lands

mattJul 17, 2024
Today we made two private entries public. Both are more detail on the Cunning Folk. Cunning Folk are the “lesser”...
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Tales of Distant Lands: The Song of Rusal and Erse

mattJul 15, 2024
The Song of Rusal and Erse In the history of Saaland, Rusal was a legendary warrior, poet and prince. In...
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Game Design

Maps of Ilsien

mattJun 26, 2024Jun 24, 2024
I put a new [public] Patreon post up today. Maps are hard. Well, they’re hard to get right.
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Languaging and the Naming of Things

mattJun 20, 2024Jun 22, 2024
One of the important things for the World is familiarity. I remember reading a great (and hefty) first RPG by...
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Talking to Dragons

mattJun 17, 2024
Dragons of all shapes and sizes occupy this world but due to the spread of wizardry, they are most often...
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Game Design

Patreon Launched

mattJun 14, 2024Jun 17, 2024
Some small encouragement from people exposed to my first short story set in the “Tales of Distant Lands” world, I’ve...
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Game Design

In development: Tales of Distant Lands

mattJun 12, 2024
Tales of Distant Lands is a working title for a game I’ve been dreaming about for decades. The core inspiration...
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Game Design

So What’s Next?

mattJun 4, 2024Jun 4, 2024
It has to be said we are YZE (Year Zero Engine) fans here at Lategaming – you only have to...
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