Blog
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Interview with Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor
Including an exclusive sneak peek from the upcoming Spire supplement Strata. Update 16th October: The Strata Kickstarter is now live! At UK Games Expo 2018 I managed to drag Chris Taylor and Grant Howitt away from their perpetually busy table for a few moments to chat to me about barbecue tours of the American south...
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Lucia de Castillo Visits Drigbolton
In which I examine a surprise mashup of Gavin Norman and Greg Gorgonmilk’s The Weird That Befell Drigbolton, and Kiel Chenier’s Blood in the Chocolate. Here Be Spoilers Cozying up. My weekly Thursday game is currently play testing Hypertellurians...
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Interview with Inspiring Games
Inspiring Games is the company behind Legends Untold, a cooperative adventure game with the speed of a card game, minimal setup, zero downtime, yet the depth of an RPG. Kevin and Hugh are the masterminds behind it...
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Lost Spells of Thrad the Creepomancer
"Thrad", by Enmanuel "Lema" Martinez. Now, Thrad wasn't the type of person that would spring to mind when you heard the term "wizard." In fact, he never used that word himself. He wasn't a man of many words...
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Interview with James Edward Raggi IV
I had the opportunity to sit down with Lamentations of the Flame Princess publisher extraordinaire, James Raggi, at this year's UK Games Expo. We chatted about Free RPG Day, historical settings, and what's next for an outfit that has put out the highest production value gaming books for the last few years...
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Eldritch Cock Review - A Next-Gen Free RPG Day Book
Today, June 16th, is international Free RPG Day, conceived to bring people into their friendly local game shops with the promise of free stuff, and the goal of creating new or recurring customers for both the stores and the publishers...
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UK Games Expo 2018 Unwinding
Last weekend I attended the UK Games Expo in Birmingham, in part to help my friends at Inspiring Games demo their games Legends Untold and Lord of the Horde, and, of course, in part for my very own delectation...
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Hypertellurians is live
The time has come, and my "swords and sandals" meets "raypunk" RPG is live. Read about its inception, or jump right in. It comes in 3 parts: the core rules is the big daddy and contains the rules and more powers than you can shake a stick at...
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Hypertellurians
This version has been superceded by a revised and expanded edition! Hypertellurians is an easy to pick up roleplaying game that is fast and simple to play, while providing plenty of depth for engaging character development and story...
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Introducing Hypertellurians
June 1st update: the game is now live! Like many games masters, judges, referees, or whatever you like to call them, I have many more adventures and adventure ideas than I'll—sadly—ever be able to run...
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Pathfinder Character Sheet App Survey Results
Update Jan 20th, 2025: Unfortunately this project was abandoned. I'm leaving the blog and comments here for historical reasons. The other week I reached out to users of my Online Character Sheet for Pathfinder...
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Interview with Gamer and Model Caroline Pierce
"Professional alternative model, actress, latex aficionado, dork, avid RPG gamer, bookworm, crazy cat lady, music lover, soup maker, polyhedral dice addict." — that's how Caroline Pierce's twitter introduction reads...
