by Will Hindmarch | Sep 28, 2010 | Design, Fantasy, RPGs
Did you see this blog post that designer and writer Rob Schwalb made last week? He’s taking a new look at the way we spend the XP budget to build encounters for D&D. The problem he’s out to combat is a repetitive rhythm of play that puts exploration...
by Jeff Tidball | Sep 22, 2010 | Fantasy, Publishing, RPGs
Philip Athans has put together a lengthy article contrasting the development of the intellectual property that comprises the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms settings. Extensive discussion with Tracy Hickman and Ed Greenwood provide a great deal of high-quality...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 29, 2010 | Fantasy, Question, RPGs, Sci Fi
This question came in via my Tumblr account not long before I left for the Origins Game Fair last week. I offered it up to some of my favorite gaming minds there at the convention, during a bout of late-night game talk in a hotel lobby bar, and we came up with a bout...
by Jeff Tidball | Apr 1, 2010 | Fantasy, Promotion
Earlier this year, I did the graphic design and layout for Hard Boiled Empires: Solara, for Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games. I wasn’t aware of any of the content specifics when I signed on for that job, but when I read through the Hard Boiled Cultures source...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 5, 2010 | Fantasy, MMOs, Musing
A few weekends ago, I started doing some quests in the Lothlórien region of LOTRO’s Middle-earth, after spending quite a bit of time away from the game. I’m in that high-level slog where I’m eking through late levels in the hopes of catching up with...
by Will Hindmarch | Sep 24, 2009 | Design, Fantasy, RPGs, Uncategorized, Writing
This is about inspiration. This is about narrowing down an infinite array of potential attitudes and ideas into a smaller headspace, a common playground with a common language — someplace where I can say the word viking and conjure the right kind of image. This is...
