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Nosy Lawyers & Catacomb Monsters: Big Trouble in Little China Preview
Upper Deck is going to have Legendary: Big Trouble in Little China out at GenCon. That's less than a month away so it's time for some previews! One of my design goals was to create a set with a lot of...
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Hero Buddies & Extra Hero Cards: Big Trouble in Little China Preview
Marvel Legendary uses Team Icons that match some iteration of the comic book universe's affiliation web. Teams are another fun way to create combos as you build your deck, but they didn't feel like a...
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Green-eyed Brides with Killer Kung-Fu: Big Trouble in Little China preview
Towards the end of Big Trouble, the evil sorcerer David Lo Pan orchestrates a prenuptial kung fu exhibition and magical survival ritual for his two green-eyed brides. Am I the only one who thinks that...
View ArticleENnnies Shout Out
This morning I made the time to poke around on the ENnies voting site for introductions to cool games and websites I hadn’t looked at before. It was painless, informative, fun, and quick, and given the...
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My Favorite Monsters: Big Trouble in Little China preview
Working on a bunch of 13th Age stuff today, so this BTiLC preview is going to be quick and self-indulgent, introducing two of my favorite villains from the set. They really are Monsters, the villain...
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One and the Same Person, Jack: Big Trouble in Little China preview
I'm happy about managing twelve new schemes in this Big Trouble set! One of them is a riff on a scheme from an earlier Marvel set by Devin Low. A couple others restructure familiar ideas. The rest of...
View ArticleMy GenCon Schedule, 13th Age, & Glorantha
GenCon next week!! I’m going to be spending most of time at the Pelgrane booth, 419. Chaosium is in booth 423, so the two places in the exhibit hall you’re likely to find me are actually a single space...
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Lords of Death: Big Trouble in Little China preview
I was gonna write my next preview about the two versions of the Three Storms, but I don't have time to tackle that topic today. Instead, here's a henchman.The Lords of Death seem like a bunch of...
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Doubling Up on the Three Storms: Big Trouble in Little China preview
I'm headed to GenCon soon, where previews will no longer be necessary, though an occasional design note may still be relevant.Today's quick show-and-tell introduces the two versions of the Three...
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GenCon Notes: Lights! Camera! Action!
I had a great GenCon. So did most of my friends, both old and new. I’ll post a couple highlights, now and maybe later.Lights!Will Jobst and I left the exhibitors’ hall on Saturday night and went...
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PAX Schedule and beyond
We don't have an official booth at PAX this year, and by we I mean my company Fire Opal Media and the two other companies I work with most: Pelgrane and Chaosium. We will be at GeekGirl Con on October...
View ArticleTwo snippets about Glorantha and The Gods War
Sandy Petersen'sThe Gods War kickstarter is ending in about twelve hours and I didn't get around to mentioning that I'd written a couple short bits about Glorantha involving that project. Even if you...
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Voting & Supporting Hillary
The stamp felt perfect for this ballot! On the way back from casting the ballot, I passed Neil Stephenson, out for a stroll in the neighborhood he works in. I'll take passing a socially progressive...
View ArticleDragonmeet & other Meetings
I'm in London for Dragonmeet alongside the Pelgrane crew!Last year on the train into London from Heathrow, before Dragonmeet, I was reading Lavie Tidhar's The Violent Century, glancing out of the train...
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Wearing the Cape: the book & the Kickstarter
My favorite superhero novels are in the Wearing the Cape series by Marion G. Harmon. The series is humane, well-written, and one of the rare superhero treatments of time travel and its consequences...
View ArticleSaturday Night at MoPOP: Hall of Fame 20th anniversary party & panel
This Saturday, March 4th, a mile or so from the festivities at the Emerald City ComicCon, MoPOP, the museum formerly known as EMP, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Science Fiction &...
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Gamefest in Denver, April 21-23
I'm spending this weekend wrapping Lions & Tigers & Owlbears: 13th Age Bestiary 2 up for layout.The weekend after, April 21-23, I'm joining around nine other gaming guests and many many other...
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Home Art Gallery: Tyger Tyger
I loved this painting when I saw Heather Hudson working on it years ago. When Heather sold it as a print several years ago, I jumped at the chance. The print blazes to the left of my desk. Heather and...
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Alarums & Excursions #500 arrives this Sunday!
[[art by Lee Moyer]]Lee Gold is putting out the 500thmonthly issue of the Alarums & Excursions roleplaying fanzine on May 21st.A&E is an amateur press association. Each issue contains pages...
View ArticleCard Brain
Card game design has become my hobby. When I need a break from doing roleplaying design, I work on a card game. The pieces of the brain involved in card game design are different enough, for me, that I...
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