by Jeff Tidball | Jul 15, 2008 | Accessories, RPGs
For the last six months or so, I’ve been using OmniGroup’s fine productivity application OmniFocus to manage all of my crap, and have been slowly easing myself all up into GTD. I’d recommend either, or both, to pretty much anybody. Here’s what...
by Jeff Tidball | Jul 2, 2008 | Conventions, Musing, Writing
Origins was last week; I wasn’t there. On the subject of Origins, a shout-out to FFG co-worker Corey Koneiczka, the designer of StarCraft: The Board Game, who earned a well-deserved Origins Award for his work on that game. Corey is the best hobby board game...
by Jeff Tidball | Jun 19, 2008 | Business
I’ve been thinking about the two assumptions usually made about the business of hobby games in general and tabletop RPGs in particular: 1. A game that isn’t supported with expansions is dead. 2. Dead games can’t make any money. One of the...
by Jeff Tidball | Jun 6, 2008 | Musing, RPGs, Story
I’ll wager that this has happened to you: You were watching a film in a theater when the film snapped, the lights came on, and you sat around — annoyed — for 15 minutes while the projectionist got all the spilled film back onto the platter, taped the broken ends...
by Jeff Tidball | May 14, 2008 | Promotion, RPGs, Writing
This text was recently cut from the project that Will and I have been working on for the past couple of months. Don’t use a space or a hyphen when writing “roleplaying,” as in, “roleplaying game.” 1) As compound words develop in English...
