Where I'll Be at GenCon
In pictures, my week looks like this...Here's the text version!Thursday, August 213th Age Adventure Design Seminar. 11 a.m. to noon. . . Lucas Oil Meeting Room 1We run these as audience-participation...
View ArticleOver the Edge!
Our Wednesday night gaming group stepped away from 13th Agegames for about a year to play many short campaigns of Jonathan’s new Over the Edge. We had fun with the initial draft, but I don’t think the...
View ArticleGuest Post: On Dice Mechanics and Over the Edge
This is a guest post on from Jonathan Tweet, who is in the last 24 hours of his Over the Edge Kickstarter with Atlas Games. I didn't directly contribute to the design of Over the Edge, but it turns...
View ArticleGuest Post: Thumbing Through 13th Age Glorantha
Jonathan Tweet gifts my blog with gaming-centered posts, and here he is, finally looking at something we created together! At Gen Con, I finally got a copy of 13th Age Glorantha for myself, and when I...
View Article13th Age Mini-Adventures
Here’s the plan: we’re going to create a series of three 13th Age books that contain fully playable short adventures for all 13 of the icons, one adventure per icon at each of the three tiers. Oh....
View ArticleGuesting at the Rose City Comic Con Sept 7-9!
Along with the fun people listed at the bottom of this blog, I'm a gaming guest at the upcoming Rose City Comic Con in Portland, Oregon. I lived in Portland for years during and after college, so it's...
View ArticleGuest Post: Reskinned Cleric and Icons
Jonathan Tweet talks about our new 13th Age campaign . . . . One of the players in our gaming group stepped up to run 13th Age for us, specifically Eyes of the Stone Thief. That means Rob and I can...
View ArticleThis week's games: 13th Age, Rising Sun, Up Front, and Manoeuvre
For a change, this was a week without serious playtesting on unannounced projects. Instead I ended up playing one session of 13th Age and a couple sessions of boardgames. In our Wednesday night 13th...
View Article13 Years of Color!
It's time to pull on this blog's starter cord. For the fun of it and because a couple people were asking, I'm restarting by rerunning the first blog post I made on LiveJournal, back in 2008. Yes, my...
View ArticleWrestlenomicon Launches in March!
[Sometimes Bad Things Happen to Bad Entities, by Kurt Komoda]“Sometimes bad things happen to bad entities” is an apt slogan for Wrestlenomicon! The first two gods into the ring are Hastur (picture...
View ArticleThe Tea Dragon Society
[2018's Cutest Things*]Before I enter the Wrestlenomicon ring with a full slate of piledriving elder gods next month, it’s time for an appreciation of a game that’s all the way over on the opposite...
View ArticleArchmage Engines on Apocalypse Road
My favorite racing games are Thunder Alley and Grand Prix, designed by Jeff & Carla Horger and published by GMT. Both games ask you to control a team of multiple cars using cards that have a...
View ArticleCthulhu. Hastur. Who’s the Great Old One, and Who’s the GREATEST Old One?
Time to find out. It’s WRESTLENOMICON, the card game from veterans of Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Epic Spell Wars, and Delta Green. Back it now!...
View ArticleHastur vs. Cthulhu: The Home Front!
The Wrestlenomicon Kickstarter is in full swing with rules and DIY printable PDFs available in the first update for backers!The campaign is structured so that most pledges add to either Cthulhu's...
View ArticleWrestlenomicon vs. Epic Spell Wars ! ! !
That's pro-wrestling-style hype for a grudge match that's more likely to be a team-up!Three of the card games I’ve designed are somewhat similar to Wrestlenomicon’s style, play time, or ambition. Here...
View ArticleAdding Nyarlathotep & Yog-Sothoth to Wrestlenomicon
Arc Dream has announced our targets for adding new elder gods to the Wrestlenomicon Kickstarter! Actually Arc Dream announced a whole bunch of new stuff, including playmats, wallpapers and even a...
View ArticleBring on Squishyface!
Lisa hanging out with someone clean cut for a changeWe've played soccer together for 33 years and card games for 30, so really, I should have known that Lisa's favorite card art wasn't going to be...
View ArticleThe Return of Three-Dragon Ante!
I've kept quiet for months, but the hatchling is out of the nest! The photo below is from W. Eric Martin's Board Game Geek report on this year's New York Toy Fair. WizKids will be releasing...
View ArticleElder Rumble: Multiplayer Rules for Wrestlenomicon!
The Wrestlenomicon Kickstarter is in its final 25 hours. We've kicked, and now we're stretching towards the goal that will add the third elder god to the game, Nyarlathotep, who in Wrestlenomicon terms...
View ArticleFour Notes about Three-Dragon Ante: Legendary Edition
Wiz-Kids has released more info about the new edition of Three-Dragon Ante, so I can start explaining a bit more about what's in the box.Little Bits: The new edition isn't just cards and a rulebook: it...
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