Human Head Studios shows its hard-core tabletop gamer roots with some of the special bits to come with its limited edition of Prey: three pewter miniatures sculpted and cast by Reaper Miniatures. They even have shots of the greens available in a 360°, rotatable view. Ah, to have an Xbox 360 or PC gaming rig and the hours to spend …
The Palladium Plot Thickens
It seems that some of the people who heard of Palladium’s plight wanted to find out if Kevin Siembieda was telling the truth about his company’s troubles. They did some digging and found out the name of the perpetrator who harmed the RPG publisher so badly. Kevin got wind of this and issued a reasonable statement about it, urging people …
Signing in Rockford this Saturday
Just a reminder that I’ll be at the Barnes & Noble in Rockford, Illinois, tomorrow (Saturday, April 29) to meet readers, chat, and sign books. I’m scheduled to be there from 3—5 PM, so please stop by and say hi if you’re in the area!
Queen of Death Done and Gone
I just turned in the manuscript for Queen of Death, the third and final book in my Lost Mark trilogy for the Eberron world. This started with Marked for Death, which hit stores in March of 2005, and continued in Road to Death, which saw print in January of 2006. The whole thing should wrap up this October, and I …
Costikyan’s History of Games
In the latest issue of The Escapist, legendary game designer and Manifesto Games CEO Greg Costikyan offers up a history of tabletop gaming and shows how such games have inspired and informed the computer games of today. He argues that tabletop games will continue to do so, and I hope he’s right. This essay should be required reading for any …
Dansky on Blood Bowl
My pal Richard Dansky commented on my Blood Bowl novel on his blog today: You can tell this book was written by a Packers fan in, say, ten to fifteen seconds. Lots of fun and a good ride, though I’m disappointed that there weren’t more exploding spiked footballs. Rest assured, I’m taking notes.
Rockford Files–Death Match Style!
My latest novel, Blood Bowl: Death Match, hits store shelves in the US today! This is the third in the Blood Bowl trilogy, and it wraps up most if not all of the loose plot threads I left dangling throughout the first two books. The climactic match takes place in the Realms of Chaos. Talk about one Hell of a …
Battle Dice Contest
SuperHeroTimes.com is running a Marvel Heroes Battle Dice contest. To sign up, you just have to register in their forums and post a note saying you’d like to win. Those who do win get a free starter pack and a dice chucker to go with it.
Game Designer Advice Redux
Board game super-fan Tom Vasel writes tons of great reviews and interviews game designers and publishers of all stripes. On the website for his podcast, The Dice Tower, Tom presents excerpts from several of those interviews, in which he asks for advice for aspiring designers. It’s well worth the read.
Beloit Cops Rock
I get a phone call at 3 AM on Saturday, and the first thing I think is that it must be something horrible–or a wrong number. No one calls with good news or to say hi at 3 AM, so I’m really hoping for a wrong number when I pick up the phone. “Hello?” “Mr. Forbeck?” Ouch. No wrong number …