There’s a long version of this story that I like to tell at conventions, maybe over beers, and that I’ll someday write down properly for my memoir. Here’s the short one. Thirty-some years ago – fresh out of college and on a student work visa – I somehow miraculously landed a dream job as an editor and game developer at …

My friend Mark Kaufman over at Days of Wonder, explained the Law of Inverse Trouble to me at a convention once. It goes like this: The older a kid gets, the less frequently trouble happens, but the bigger the trouble is. An infant, for example, gets into trouble all the time, but these are mostly easy things to fix. A …

I’d planned to finish up the script for the second issue of Blood Bowl: Killer Contract this weekend, but I had to deal with something else instead. I coach indoor soccer at the local Y for my three youngest sons: Pat, Nick, and Ken. Normally, the worst trauma of the day involves kids whining about where I ask them to …

While researching Billy Campbell before our interview, I discovered that he’d just spent over a year on a round-the-world voyage on the barque Picton Castle. That’s a man who knows how to live. In an alternate life, I’d take on that kind of a trip too. Back when I was working with ICE, I used to go to a lot …