As promised last week, I’m putting my random money where my mouth is and creating actual games based on the results of random game idea… Read More »Super Team-up Challenge – A Random Game of Trading and Team-Building
A few weeks ago, I posted a list of random game idea generators. Starting this week, I’ll be putting those generators to good use by… Read More »Something Random This Way Comes
This past weekend, as promised, I ran a session of the Ghost Punchers RPG at Tacticon. It went very well. There was more investigation than… Read More »A Ghostly Post-Mortem
Tacticon is coming up next weekend, and I’m putting the finishing touches on the Ghost Punchers adventure I’ll be running on Saturday morning. I’m excited… Read More »Profiles in Punching: Ricky Nash
Last week, I tweeted that I was brainstorming random board game ideas, and that they were literally random: I’d rolled them off a table. Well,… Read More »Generating Chaos
This weekend is the pre-release of Equestian Odysseys, the latest card set for the My Little Pony CCG. Equestian Odysseys kicks off a new series… Read More »A Whole New Odyssey
Writing rulebooks for games is hard. Yes, it’s a cliche, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Writing rules is both art and science… Read More »Serving Two Masters
Inspired by a tweet from the always-thinking Will Hindmarch, I’ve been pondering the role of names in world-building. They’ve got a lot of power. The… Read More »The Power of Names
No words of world-building wisdom today. No pearls of game-design brilliance either. Jaxar the Barbarian was up at 3:30 AM, which meant I was up,… Read More »Time Dilation
In world-building, it’s easy to get caught up in history. After all, the world that we’re building is based on everything that’s come before, and… Read More »Digging in the Dirt
