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 Will Hindmarch | May 30, 2008 | Business, Musing, RPGs, Websites
Perhaps to the surprise of no one but me, Forbes has covered the online leak of the D&D core rulebooks, along with some information on retailers who broke the street date for the books. Best of all, they also mention Andrew White’s Pre-Release Rules...
by Will Hindmarch | May 30, 2008 | Business, Musing, RPGs, Websites
Perhaps to the surprise of no one but me, Forbes has covered the online leak of the D&D core rulebooks, along with some information on retailers who broke the street date for the books. Best of all, they also mention Andrew White’s Pre-Release Rules...
by Will Hindmarch | May 29, 2008 | Fantasy, Miniatures, Musing, RPGs
Unlike a lot of designers I know, I’ve been looking forward to the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Unlike a lot of designers I know, I was finished with D&D v3.5 years ago. Plenty of people around my old workplace played the game weekly, still, and...
by Will Hindmarch | May 28, 2008 | Board Games, Musing, Uncategorized
It’s not as remarkable as discovering, say, a beautifully preserved Senet board, but for game fans this is still something. Have a look at the condition of the 1893 baseball-themed board game discovered in the eaves of an estate house in Missouri: according to...
by Will Hindmarch | May 1, 2008 | Horror, Musing, RPGs, Story, Writing
As a kind of author’s note, I’m cross-posting this piece I wrote on RPGnet this morning, in response to the question of resemblance between the World of Darkness (of Vampire and Changeling) and the real world. Read on after the jump. The secret monsters of...