by Jeff Tidball | May 24, 2010 | Board Games, Story
One of the advantages Fantasy Flight has over other game publishers is the strength of their in-house media department, run by the fantastically talented Keith Hurley with the able assistance of Jason Beaudoin. They’ve just released their video overview of Horus...
by Jeff Tidball | May 17, 2010 | Design, Story
John August answered a question about screenwriting from theme last week on his blog. He dismisses a few classic ways to define theme out of hand, and from the writer’s perspective, good riddance to them. Writing a story to prove some greater truth about the...
by Jeff Tidball | May 12, 2010 | Promotion, RPGs
If you follow Will or I on Twitter (we’re @wordwill and @jefftidball, respectively), or pay attention to the news coming out of Pelgrane Press, you may be aware that Will and I are co-writing a massive Trail of Cthulhu campaign called Eternal Lies. We’re...
by Jeff Tidball | May 11, 2010 | Freelancing
Last Friday marked the one-year anniversary of my last day at Fantasy Flight Games, and my first day of full-time freelancing. I made the decision to be a freelancer out of a desire to work on more games, and more different types of games, in a more creative set of...
by Jeff Tidball | Apr 30, 2010 | RPGs
Christian Lindke has been writing a series of responses to some of the Things in Things We Think About Games at Cinerati. Most recently, he tackled “pants issues,” and relates the sad tales of playing Gandalf, first-level magic-user, as an 11-year-old...
