Oh crap. I talked ross_winn out of writing his RPG.net column. That wasn't at all my intention when I gently poked him.

You see, I knew he wrote a regular gaming column and I think he got a lot of "comp" copies of games to review in his column. But he also told me that he really didn't play any more. I don't know if he sat down for a single full session ( Read more... )

rosswinn dropped some kind words about Verge on his RPG.net column, Close to the Edit, between Burning Empires and Shock:
Adam Dray's Verge has dice, aside from that most of the trappings commonly associated with a more traditional cyberpunk RPG are missing. In place of a character sheet and a list of guns is the network; an interactive map of characters, ( Read more... )

Edit: Fixed all kinds of shit I got wrong. I shouldn't try to write these without my notes. I had players confused.

I playtested the new Verge rules Saturday at GenCon.

Here's the Network we drew on four sheets of paper (large JPEG, will open in another window/tab). I added a key to the colors at the bottom right.

Gathering PlayersRoss Winn had ( Read more... )

I was checking out the $5 D20 adventures at the Guildhouse Games booth and talking to Casey Clark about the cover art, my most excellent experiences with Jake Richmond, publication and so on, and he handed me a business card and told me to contact him because he needed people to write for him. It was out of the blue and he knew nothing about my ( Read more... )

The demos! Wow ( Read more... )

I had really cool roommates this year. I replied Ross Winn's to an open call for roommates and he took me in. If he hadn't done that, I likely would have ended up getting a room to myself, which would have cost four times as much, or (more realistically) not going. I escaped the Omni for $182 instead of $730. I can't imagine paying that much for a ( Read more... )

Originally Posted: August 15
Last Edited: 3:36 PM, August 17Oh my god. GenCon was so intense this year. It's been fifteen years since I've been to GenCon and so much as changed ( Read more... )