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February 22, 2013
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: The League of Extraordinary Skeletons
In the latest edition of our humble podcast, Ken and I talk game design ideology, Richard III, elements of RPG prose style, and Black Herman.
February 21, 2013
February 15, 2013
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Passing the Legislation to See What’s In It
In the latest episode of our ancient and mysterious podcast, Ken and I talk kludges, Stonehenge, White Wolf edition wars, and sacking the Old Summer Palace.
February 14, 2013
February 8, 2013
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Finally, the Woodrow Wilson Throwdown
In this week’s episode of our humble podcast, Ken and I talk game design economics, why we game, and silver-shirted Hollywood Nazi occultist William Dudley Pelley. Long-awaitedly, we re-enter the historical cage match to once again take on the legacy of and Woodrow Wilson. Was he, as Ken asserts, America’s worst president?
February 7, 2013
The Birds: Look Out
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February 1, 2013
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Conan Gets a Fish
On this week’s podcast, Ken and I talk WarpCon, the year's best movies, fun placement and truthers.
January 31, 2013
January 29, 2013
Invasion
With Over the Edge’s rules engine breaking free of its captivity to become the open-licensed WaRP System, my longtime pals at Atlas Games have dropped Invasion, a digital adventure by yours truly.
Can you take over the command center of an alien race whose thirst for violence threatens the entire galaxy, or will your attempt at infiltration leave you irredeemably corrupted?
Find out at e23 or the Paizo web store.
I’m delighted to return to this rules set after so many years, pushing its flexibility into the red zone spin for this player-driven upending of a time-honored sci-fi trope.
January 28, 2013
Pre-Deadline Hillfolk Progress Report
Hillfolk backers, hackers and gawkers take heed—it’s time for me to pop up from a pile of virtual manuscripts and illustration submissions with a progress report. A shockingly high percentage of series pitch writers have gotten their pieces in ahead of this Thursday’s deadline, making my job easier and giving me a big head start on the gargantuan task of assembling the core book and its companion, Blood on the Snow. As of this writing I have over half of the submissions for Hillfolk and over a third for the sourcebook.
Since my last update I’ve edited Emily Care Boss space colonists, Josh Roby Machiavellian Florentines, Dave Gross Shakespearean festival noir, Pedro Ziviani feuding Icelanders, Jesse Bullington backcountry bootleggers, Rob Wieland multi-generational mafioso, T. S. Luikart’s regal rabbits, Gareth Hanrahan high-fantasy heroes and Ian “Lizard” Harac’s 1960s nuke survivors.
Waiting patiently on my hard drive are contributions from Jason Pitre, Will Hindmarch, Eddy Webb, Wade Rockett, Steve Darlington, Ryan Macklin, Chris Lackey, Steve Long and Angus Abranson.
Emily has also submitted her DramaSystem LARP rules, which will constitute a prime reason to grab Blood on the Snow.
I’ve written my own series pitches for Blood, adapting Mutant City Blues and my short story “The Dog” to the DramaSystem platform.
My main contributions to that book’s DramaSystem Master Class are also done. The biggest piece provides players with 14 different approaches to scene-calling. No matter how your creative brain works, there’s a step-by-step for unstumping yourself when the GM calls your name.
If you’ve been planning to submit to this section, by all means do so. We’ve got some great pieces so far but there’s still room to squeeze in a few more.
Our stable of artists has also been hard at work. At right is the subtly compelling illustration for Wade Rockett’s “The Secret of Warlock Mountain” pitch, by the stellar Jonathan Wyke.
