Rebecca (R. Sean) Borgstrom (of Nobilis fame) has posted an essay entitled “Structure and Meaning in Roleplaying Game Design.” It’s brilliant (like most of her stuff) and well worth a read if you care about RPGs.
Dec 212005
Dec 202005
My host (BlueHost.com) is moving me to a new server tonight, so the site will be down for about four hours. As part of this, my service gets upgraded from 4G of storage to 10G and my bandwidth goes from 100G to 250G, far more than I ever expect to need. Overall, it’s been a great hosting service and reasonably priced, plus it integrates well with WordPress, the blogging system I use to run this site. If you’re looking for one, consider this a recommendation for BlueHost.com. (Disclaimer: If you click the links here or at the bottom of the page, I’ll get a referral fee.)
Dec 192005
It’s always wild to see what the various companies I work with send out as holiday cards or gifts. I already mentioned the holiday cards for Fluxx, from Looney Labs. Today, WizKids sent me their Pirates of the North Pole card for their Pirates series of constructible games. It features the festive ship The Sleigh, run by none other than the jolly Captain Whitebeard himself!
I’ve gotten a couple cards from Wizards of the Coast, too, including one with Mr. Potato Head holding out his tongue—in his hand—to catch snowflakes. Human Head Studios sent one with monsters from their upcoming game Prey, decked out in holiday gear. Add those to the ones from friends and family, and my mantel runneth over.
Dec 192005
WizKids has posted the prizes for the February events for High Stakes Drifter. It’s good to see them supporting the game so strongly, both with tournaments and cool prizes.
I also got my designer’s copies of the game in the mail today: a couple displays full of starters and boosters. It looks to me like these might make great gifts this holiday season, just to share the High Stakes Drifter love.
Dec 162005
As fellow Alliterate writer Jeff Grubb notes, he and Jim Ward and Ed Greenwood have a new book out, just in time for the holidays: We Three Dragons. This anthology features three novellas about dragons and Christmas. I have yet to read it myself, but it’s now on my Christmas list.
Dec 162005
According to ICv2.com, Mayfair Games has essentially sold out of its super-deluxe 3D edition of its best-selling Settlers of Catan board game. That’s 5,000 copies of a game that sells for $380 in a store, or $1.9 million in retail sales. Wow.
Congratulations to all my friends at Mayfair!
Dec 152005
The Alliterates (of which I’m a proud member) has posted a list of recommended works of science-fiction and fantasy. If you’re looking for something as a holiday gift or just to read, this is a fine place to start.
Dec 152005
My novel Blood Bowl squeaked on to this month’s bestsellers list for gaming-related fiction in Locus Magazine. It comes in at the final spot, behind three R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms novels and fellow Alliterate Jess Lebow’s Forgotten Realms novel Master of Chains. Another Alliterate, Troy Denning, made the media-related list with his latest Star Wars novel The Joiner King. That’s some fine company to be thrown in with on any day.
Edit: After poking around, it seems the asterisk next to Blood Bowl‘s entry on the list means it tied for fourth place with R.A. Salvatore’s Paths of Darkness, a collection of four of his NY Times bestselling Drizzt novels. Cool.
Dec 142005
I just got a FedEx box from Wizards of the Coast, a kind of early Christmas present for me: my author’s copies of The Road to Death. This is the second in The Lost Mark trilogy, which started with Marked for Death, and it should be on shelves nationwide and beyond in January if not earlier.
As you may have heard me say before, there’s nothing like holding a product in your hand to make it real. It’s easy to get jaded about being published, I suppose, but getting in the first copy of a game or a book always puts a big, goofy grin on my face. Woot!
Dec 132005
If you want to good look at the figures for the Marvel Heroes Battle Dice game, stop by Action-Figure.com and browse their gallery. They’ve posted over 100 photos of the game. These include shots of the figures, the carrying case, the two dice chuckers (the Hulk and the Thing), and the battle arena.
Wow. I haven’t seen most of the figures before now, and I’m impressed. This is going to be amazing.
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