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 | Fantasy, RPGs, Story, Writing
Did you see this yet? Clarkesworld Magazine has a great little article with quotes from modern fantasy writers about their experiences with RPGs. Do have a look: Of Dice and Men: Modern Fantasists and the Influence of Roleplaying Games I hope that’ll tide you...
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...
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...
by Jeff Tidball | Apr 8, 2008 | Musing, RPGs
This piece is republished from an article I wrote for Games Quarterly Magazine. The way roleplaying campaigns work is well enshrined: A group of people play a series of games to tell a continuing story. One gamemaster creates the story and runs the game, and the same...
