The Walking Eye Podcast Interview 1: Fred Hicks ( Read more... )

Over at Narrative Control, they're podcasting their Las Vegas creation for the Dresden Files RPG playtest. Check it out!

http://www.narrativecontrol.com/index.php?post_id=380416

I'm behind -- WAY behind -- on a lot of things due to what the Summer conventions did to my schedule. I haven't read RPG.net in over a month, possibly two. And I'm just now starting to catch up on the past MONTH of Google Blogsearch emails I've gotten. I'm going to list a few things I see along the way, here, as a part of the process ( Read more... )

rob_donoghue has posted up his fourth "Designing Dresden" article. It's been a solid series so far, and well worth looking into if you're a fan of running games in the real world, or in cities. You'll find the fourth Designing Dresden here: http://www.

Spent all day working on a layout scheme for the Dresden Files RPG, doing my level best to uncork the bits of awesome I have stored in my fingertips, but can't always push out onto the keys.

( For once, I think I nailed it. )

This weekend featured sanedancer's Fate game, Covenant, which he's been very kind to turn over to the purpose of field-testing mechanics whenever it happens. The last time he was up in the area, we came upon a number of the central ideas of nu Fate; on this visit, he finally got a chance to see them in force. It all worked out pretty solidly, and was ( Read more... )

Time again for me to sit down and contemplate where we're at, and where we're going. This is at least part venting and whinging, so if you've got a small tolerance for such things, skip it. Also, if you're someone watching this LJ in order to get excited about developments, it may not be for you; understand, though, that I can build up a lot of ( Read more... )

Yeah, baby!

( The Holy Smackdown )

Last night's local playtest went well enough. We didn't give the mechanics as much of a workout as I or anacrusis would prefer, though we did get a chance to establish that the idea of "shifts" as translating to abstract indicators of success (I was internally using my one-two-three-four rule of minor-significant-major-overwhelming to interpret) on the " ( Read more... )