Flipping through the latest issue of Comics & Games Retailer, I got a cool surprise. Dragonstar, a d20 System setting I cowrote with Greg Benage for Fantasy Flight hit the Top Ten Best Seller’s list. Everyone in the industry knows the numbers in Comics & Games Retailer are only a little better than sticking a wet finger in the air, …
Dracula Put to Bed
Dracula’s Revenge is off to press! With any luck at all, Human Head Studios should have plenty of copies ready for the Origins game convention in late June. The game really came together in the last few weeks, and it looks and plays great! I can’t wait for you all to see it. To whet your appetite, be sure to …
Update Update
Today’s update is going to be late. I was at the Human Head offices until midnight, putting the final touches on Dracula’s Revenge, which is due out the door today. Once I get that off to press, I’m sure I’ll have lots to say—assuming I’m still awake.
Freelance At Last
I’m hard at work putting the finishing touches on Dracula’s Revenge, my new horror-themed boardgame from Human Head Studios. After that’s done, though, I’m going to cut back to part-time with Human Head. This will give me the time I need to focus on my first Ebberon novel for Wizards of the Coast, which is due at the end of …
IDWords
If you picked up any of IDW’s recent comic books, you may have seen a one-page interview with me in the back pages. They got me to reveal all sorts of details about Dracula’s Revenge and its 12-year history of development. If you’re nowhere near a comic store at the moment, you can read the interview online at IDW’s website, …
Brave New Questions Answered
Last week I asked for questions about Brave New World, and you came up with a bunch of them. I’ll do my best to answer them here. If I mess something up, be easy on me. It’s been years since I worked on the Brave New World, and my memory might be something less than perfect. Anyhow on with the …
Dracula’s Revenge #1 Going to Print
I just got a PDF of the lettered pages for the first issue of the Dracula’s Revenge comic book from IDW Publishing. It rocks. It’s amazing to see the whole package come together like this. I’ve been going back and forth with the artist (Szymon Kudranski) and the editor (my old friend Jeff Mariotte) over the artwork, helping hone it …
More Brave New World?
I just spent a few weeks pulling back the curtain on the secrets behind Brave New World, I think I hit upon most of the major secrets. Of course, it’s been over three years since I finished work on the last book in the series, so there’s probably a ton of details that just don’t spring to mind any more. …
Whack-a-Wick
I just had to share this. Anyone out there into Neopets? Well, my five-year-old son loves it and is always dragging me over to help him read directions and play games on the site. Some of them are pretty good, and we have a blast. While we were poking around the site the other night, we discovered something hilarious: a …
GQM Column
I just finished my first article for Games Quarterly Magazine, the consumer partner to the indispensible Games Quarterly Catalog, published by Matthews-Simmons Marketing. You can read the press release here. It doesn’t mention me by name, as I hadn’t signed on when the magazine was announced. However, it does mention my good friends Marcelo Figueroa, Ken Hite, Peter Adkison, and …