This may not interest most of you, but I know that some folks local to me read this blog too. One of my stepbrother Dan Schooff’s best friends is Steve Shea, and Steve’s wife Sallie is in serious trouble. You can read the details after the break, but the upshot is that Sallie needs a lung transplant. Dan and his …
Marvel MMORGP from Cryptic
ICv2.com reports that Cryptic Studios, makers of the hit MMORPGs CIty of Heroes/City of Villians, have the license to produce an MMORPG set in the Marvel Comics universe. Yowza!
Games Expo Site Up
The new games industry trade show, Games Expo, has its website up. It looks like they have a great lineup of exhibitors and speakers already, and the show’s not until March 18—22, 2007. It’s mostly only open to professionals involved in the industry, but I hear they will have some days open for members of National Games Week (which runs …
Conan Guide Out
Yesterday, a copy of Conan: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Savage Barbarian showed up at my house, courtesy of Fred Malmberg of Conan Properties. This is a gorgeous book, and best of all it’s written by Roy Thomas, who wrote most of Marvel Comics‘ issues of Conan. If you’re a Conan fan, run right out and pick this …
Queen of Death Book Club Starts in October
The fine folks at WorldsofDnD.com have set up a book club for The Queen of Death, the climactic novel in my Eberron trilogy. It should start just as soon as the book hits shelves (October 10, I’m told), but it will go on for the entire month of October. I’m eager to find out how people like the trilogy now …
John M. Ford Dies
I’ve seen a number of reports today that John M. Ford died yesterday. I never knew John (or Mike, as his friends apparently called him), but I enjoyed his work. While he’s probably better known for his fiction these days, he also did a fair amount of game design, mostly for GURPS. He co-wrote GURPS: Infinite Worlds with Steve Jackson …
Missing Summer
Fall officially came crashing in over the weekend, and I’m missing the summer already. I like warm weather, barbecues, having the kids home from school, going to conventions, and all the other hallmarks of the summer months. One of the best memories I haven’t written much about is the week or so I spent with my wife and kids at …
Free Guild Wars Weekend
Another of my Alliterate pals, Jeff Grubb, announced that the MMORPG he’s been working on (Guild Wars Nightfall) is available for free play all weekend. Woot!
Last Call for Steam & Brass
If you’re interested in getting a copy of Steam & Brass–the results of Wolfgang Baur‘s experiment in game-designer patronage–you have until September 30, 2006. That’s less than two weeks from now, so if you’ve been on the fence, now’s the time to leap off it and get your hands on a very exclusive and excellent adventure by one of my …
Mutant Memories
Back in 2004, Thom Talamini of Excelsior Entertainment asked me to write a forward to an upcoming book in his company’s new (the third) edition of Warzone, the Mutant Chronicles miniatures battle game. I’d edited the first edition and had been in on the Mutant Chronicles since just after its first roleplaying game book was published, and he thought the …