Today is, as declared by Jon Peterson of Playing at the World, the 40th birthday of Dungeons & Dragons. It’s impossible for me to say how much this game changed my life and set me on the path to my career, but the best part about that is how many people I know that can say the same thing. For that, …
D&D and More for eBay
Late last year, I hauled a few boxes of things out of my father’s attic and discovered a whole horde of gaming treasures. My eldest son, Marty, is now putting many of them up on eBay for me a few at a time. While some of them have sentimental or historical value, if I didn’t miss them for the ten …
The Great Heffalump Exchange
Earlier this week, my pal Mike Selinker–the head of Lone Shark Games–asked a bunch of the people he regularly works with to join him in a holiday gift swap, something often called a white elephant exchange. Being Mike, he had a few twists on it. Since few of us live in the same city, we’d do the exchange virtually. Since …
November Appearances
I have three appearances scheduled for next month, one in South Dakota, one in Milwaukee, and one right here in Beloit. First up, I’ll be at Nanocon at Dakota State University from November 8—10, along with luminaries like Richard Dansky, Geoffrey Long, and Ken Rolston. In particular, I have a keynote speech at 10 AM on November 9 about how intriguing …
Two Kickstarters for You
You can tell I’m busy when I don’t get around to updating the blog for, um– Wow, has it been five weeks? It was a crazy five weeks. We started our eldest at high school and the quads at middle school. I spent a week in China working on a couple upcoming iOS games for Ubisoft Shanghai. And just last …
Stretching for the Red Aegis RPG
My pal Matt James (founder of Loremaster.org) and his brother Brian James launched a Kickstarter drive earlier this month for their brand-new roleplaying game Red Aegis. It’s a game about sweeping epics, in which you play not just a character but a familial line. Besides Matt and Brian – both excellent, proven designers in their own right – they’ve lined up help …
The Battle Isle: Threshold Run Comic
I’m working with the fine folks at Stratotainment on some material for their upcoming video game, Battle Isle: Threshold Run. Although the game’s not ready yet, you can already start to enjoy some of it in the form of a series of short online comics I’m writing for them. For those who don’t remember, Battle Isle was a hit series …
Star Trek Catan at Gen Con (and Me)
My friends at Mayfair Games are running a huge event at Gen Con based around their game Star Trek Catan, and they’ve invited me to be a part of it. They’re taking over Georgia Street, which runs east out of the convention center (it was the place with all the food trucks last year), and they’re hosting a free block party …
The Bundle of Holding +3 Has Launched!
Late on Wednesday, Allen Varney launched the Bundle of Holding +3. You might recall that the first one ran back in February and that you got a copy of Hard Times in Dragon City if you paid more than the average for it. The sequel – Bundle of Holding +2 – ran last month and featured a number of excellent indie roleplaying games. This time around, …
The Dangerous Games Gen Con Writer’s Symposium Contest Results
That’s one long title. Earlier this week, I launched a contest to give away a couple of Gen Con badges that the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium slipped my way with a wink and a nod and a “You know what to do.” I didn’t, really, so I did what I always do when confronted with such riddles: I made something …