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Fire Giant and Snowy Owlbear: 13th Age Bestiary 2 is ready to roll
illustration by Rich LongmoreThis fire giant soldier is smashing his way into reality: Lions & Tigers & Owlbears: 13th Age Bestiary 2is (almost) finished with layout! What’s the hold-up? It’s...
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The massive opening of The Yellow King Kickstarter project has caused me to reconsider an event that took place on June 21st, just prior to the launch of Robin D. Laws' new GUMSHOE game.I was talking...
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Thunder Alley & Apocalypse Road
Thunder Alley is a pretty great NASCAR racing game by Jeff and Carla Horger, published by GMT. Read more comprehensive reviews of Thunder Alley’s clever racing and drafting mechanics here and here....
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Stuff at GenCon!
It’s not only GenCon’s 50th birthday this year; it’s my wife Lisa’s 50th, and they coincide. So I won’t be at GenCon this year. I’m sorry to miss out on seeing friends I only see once or twice a year,...
View ArticleTop Level Security
The Frame: I heard the story I’m about to relate as it was happening, from people inside the building speaking off-the-record to an outsider. I wasn’t in a position to find out more at the time, and I...
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Fire & Faith & a Fallen Lammasu
I just finished developing and editing Cal Moore’s Fire & Faith: Battle Scenes for Four Icons, the third of his battle scenes books for 13th Age. The glorious bits that you won’t forget include a...
View ArticleCrazy Boss Monster
A couple years ago there was a pivotal moment when a close friend of ours had started a job that immediately looked like it was going to be a disaster. My wife Lisa helped save us all, saying “I’m...
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Red Base Yellow Base
Walking our dog Roo early this morning in the fog, outside the Rainier Arts Center, I found myself standing on what felt like an art project, or perhaps a section of a game board, one base red, one...
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Design notes from Operation Dauntless
I love design notes in games. When I’m working full-time on my own games, I admit there are times that I end up reading the designer’s notes in new games in more detail than their rules, particularly...
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Dream-Quest, Dreamlands cards
Here’s why I love Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe: a) Kij Johnson is one of my favorite writers, and the fact that I haven’t read all her books yet is a symptom of deliberately...
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Wrestlenomicon!
[Hyades Head Slam, by Kurt Komoda]Dennis Detwiller & Shane Ivey of Arc Dream Publishing came up with the idea of pitting Cthulhu vs. Hastur in a cosmic cage fight. They came up with dozens of funny...
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Winter update
This weekend: I'll be at Dragonmeet in London on Saturday with the Pelgrane crew. I love visiting London, and Wednesday I got to attend Arsenal's 5-0 tonking of Huddersfield, so all is well.Work in...
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this week in gaming
This week I absorbed the rules for four new games: Gloomhaven (cunning boardgame dungeon-crawler and Kickstarter darling) Magic Maze (unique co-op game getting in and out of a delightfully illustrated...
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New Wrestlenomicon Two-Player Cardgame Playtest Opens
art by Kurt KomodaI've been super-busy finishing game design projects before a vacation.One of the projects, a twisted little two-player card game from Arc Dream Publishing called Wrestlenomicon, is...
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Heinsoo: Rainbow over the Wine-Zoo
How do you pronounce my last name? Yes, you, the reader, the comrade sharing this line.If you pronounce the first syllable to rhyme with ‘wine’ and the second syllable to room with ‘zoo,’ you’re...
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13th Age Glorantha: Delicious (to Trolls)
Of the little things I like about our 13th Age Gloranthabook, one of the silliest is how pages 347 and 348 look like they've been eaten by moths. It’s the oDarkness section of our runic geography...
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Interviews & Lists
broo minis painted by Richard Bark, octorilla/walktapus mini from when Jonathan and I designed DreambladeI've done a few interviews in the last couple weeks, two about 13th Age Glorantha and one about...
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Book of Demons: using symbols from @GameIcons
In the last chapter of Book of Demons, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan wrote some deceptively calm text describing things that can be found in the Citadel of the Diabolist. I loved his understated approach to...
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Cursed Court: Four Coins Variant
This is a guest post from Jonathan Tweet about a game we both love. You can find him on Twitter at @JonathanMTweet or on Google+ as Jonathan Tweet Atlas Games has a new board game that’s about placing...
View ArticleThe Subject Will be Revealed
Back in the 90s, when Lisa and I moved to the Bay Area so I could work at Chaosium, I got some fun postcards from a non-gamer friend in the Pacific Northwest who had gotten involved in a roleplaying...
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