by Will Hindmarch | Nov 5, 2009 | RPGs
Fantasy Flight Games’ new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a formidable-looking thing. Between this look at the game’s contents and this description of the pre-release demo scenario, I’m getting a little wary: Be among the first to experience...
by Jeff Tidball | Nov 2, 2009 | RPGs
I followed one of Jason Fried’s Twitter links to an article at Inc. magazine about his workday habits. Jason runs 37signals. Among relative banalities like what kinds of tea he drinks and how often he goes to the gym, there’s this: In the software world,...
by Jeff Tidball | Oct 29, 2009 | RPGs, Story
Back in April, I bookmarked a Mark Waid post at Kung Fu Monkey about false suspense in fiction. By false suspense, he means… The kind of “suspense” that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to think about it. … The only reader who might...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 27, 2009 | Play, RPGs, Writing
If you’re not careful, Google Wave becomes just another play-by-chat option. Everyone’s typing at once, filing their character’s actions in order, creating a mess of information from which meaning must be extracted and the narrative of play...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 19, 2009 | Design, Play, RPGs
Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Visual Story TAs on Vimeo. Have a look at this: it’s a prototype for D&D play using Microsoft’s tabletop Surface technology. What I see is something pointed in the direction of the interactive tabletop we’ve...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 19, 2009 | Design, Play, RPGs
Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Visual Story TAs on Vimeo. Have a look at this: it’s a prototype for D&D play using Microsoft’s tabletop Surface technology. What I see is something pointed in the direction of the interactive tabletop we’ve...
