Justin Halliday, over on google+, posted a link to an opinion piece by Ross Winn asking “Is Kickstarter bad for RPGs?” First, I’m going to answer “No”. I think Kickstarter is great for RPGs. Looking over the stated reasons why, let me respond to key elements of each. My first …
In case you’re wondering about the dearth of posts here this month, I’ve mostly been working on Echelon for the last few weeks for National Game Development Month. Status 2012/11/19 Given that I am starting from the Revised System Reference Document, the following game elements will be considered. I might apply …
I can’t prove it, but empirical evidence gathered last night suggests elves in this campaign are jackasses. Two returning players last night, two new players, and I think none of them had ever played together before. Erik Tenkar and Gabriel Perez Gallardi were back, joined this week by Charlie White and Jason …
Almost halfway into the month, and I’m pretty happy with my progress. I’ve posted a few articles on design elements of Echelon, I’m partway into my draft of the core rules, and I’ve posted three documents of talents, from three different sources. First Draft Talents Introduction. Divine Talents from Agents of Faith. …
Last week we had our second session of the megadungeoncrawl. Erik and Michael were unavailable, so Courtney Campbell was joined by James Aulds and Gabriel Perez Gallardi. Honestly, I’m not as pleased with how well I ran this session. I’d spent more time preparing specifically for this session, but when …
I cannot convey how utterly disappointed I am that I don’t know anyone right now with kids the right age for this. A small, short Kickstarter campaign — started November 5, closes November 10, already 1,100/600 funded. Yes. That small. The rewards are similarly small, $4 for a digital copy, $7 …
Erik Tenkar‘s updated his Kickstarter status report. My backing list overlaps him to some degree, but we each have things the other didn’t back. I thought I’d offer some of my own observations for projects I’ve backed that I don’t see that he has (we both backed Tabletop Forge and …
So, National Game Development Month. I’m not a purist. I won’t be starting from scratch. I do, however, aim to have Echelon playable by the end of November. Quite probably in dire need of polishing, but at the least, a set of rules that can be printed out, a set …
Eric Quigley has some monster art he wasn’t doing anything with and decided to make free for use, with credit. Use-able Scary Monster Art! Hey guys, it’s getting close to Halloween and I would like to offer up some monster art if anyone were looking to do anything with it …
It may seem odd that I say “reconsidering hex crawls”, given that I’ve never really discussed them here, but that’s what I’m doing. As with megadungeons, hex crawls are something that never really appealed to me. The ones I’ve seen are generally presented as list of hexes and the things …
