Design Diary [Neon]
A couple of posts ago I said I would be sharing a “design diary” explaining how I went about designing Conquest of the Atomic Waste. I may still do that, but I am kind of reticent to go back and write with “20-20 hindsight” under the pretext of a design diary, and I am kind
What the hell is an indie game?
A funny thing happened to me this week. I decided to make an order to Indie Press Revolution (Fiasco has just been released and I had been meaning to pick up a few other things) and asked a few friends if they wanted to piggy-back on my order. Marty took me up on the offer but
Game Writing
In the most recent episode of Here Be Gamers! I made the comment that writing RPG rules is very different from writing wargame rules. I then carry on and say that I “hand wave” a lot in a set of RPG rules because the assumption is that players are working together and will cooperate to
Cyberpunk revisited
I got home from short break today and (as is my custom) made a quick check of some of my faovurite initernet haunts. When I got to Rob Lang’s excellent Free RPG Blog I found word of a new free rpg competition, this time to “revive cyberpunk”. Now, it took me less than a nano-second
Dungeon Quest
Two Saturday’s ago I caught up with one of my nephews and ran him through his first ever RPG adventure. We went through the entire process of creating a character – he wanted to be a wizard – talked about the rules and then got into playing. All up it took about 2 hours, which is
Mercs’
Frothing rabidly by the prospect of 15mm post-apocalyptic battles, I got to work with some modelling and painting. I rummaged around and found some un-used Flames of War British infantry and a pile of bits to create a small mercenary force of 16 infantry (including a couple of “EMP support guns”). A quick trip to
Wasted
I have been busy over the Christmas break, doing the family thing, recording the odd episode of Here Be Gamers! and writing games. It seems that whenever I get more than two days off in a row my mind gets all creative and I just can’t help myself.
Fantasy Character Hotseat
Fantasy Character Hotseat is the very first System Free Resource – a game resource that is useful no matter what game or system you are using. This resource provides more than 240 inspirational prompts that you can use to create interesting backgrounds and agendas for your fantasy characters. This first Hotseat resource focuses on the iconic
The Beast of Limfjord
The Beast of Limfjord is a game of Dark Ages fantasy. It is currently in development and YOU can help by playing the playtest game and providing feedback. It is a game of historical fantasy, inspired by the tales of Beowulf, the Norse sagas and other historical texts. The playtest version of the game is
Geek-do
Show your support for Peril Planet at Geek-do. Boardgame Geek has an RPG site called Geek-do. It is a great place to learn about games and share information and knowledge, resources and gossip on all your favourite tabletop rpg’s. There is a page for Peril Planet games and I would really appreciate it if fans of Space
