Don't Lose Your Mind won the Silver Ennie for Best Writing. I was the minor-key element in that -- I did the layout, sure, and came up with the high concept for the book, but it was Benjamin "Bailywolf" Baugh's killer writing and Ryan Macklin's insightful, demanding editing job that honed that crazy blade to a keen edge. I'm very proud of them for ( Read more... )

Thanks be to boxninja for snapping these photos of the IPR booth at GenCon 2009:


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(Ennie-Nominated) Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, seen at the IPR booth at GenCon:


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We're pretty lazy here at the Hat, when it comes right down to it. Lazy -- and lucky. At many a convention, our games are represented not by Official Company Representatives, but instead by the fans. This is how we like it! (It's also more sustainable, and durable, in years like this one where finances and/or newborns are keeping most of us at ( Read more... )

Evil Hat now has a webstore of its own!

http://www.evilhat.com/store/

(Don't fret -- this isn't us breaking away from IPR at all. It was just time to have a store presence of our own, too.)

So, the 2009 Ennie Award Nominations are out this morning ( Read more... )

While Evil Hat itself is not making it to Origins this year (nor is IPR for that matter), Evil Hat products are still on sale there this year -- drop on by the Hero Games booth to find 'em, including the recently released A Penny For My Thoughts.

So, Evil Hat has its retailer PDF guarantee program that I've mentioned before (buy the book in a store, get the PDF from us, no problem): http://www.evilhat.com/home/pdf-guarantee/Read more... )

We've started the Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies softcover preorder ( Read more... )

The mystery:

http://drivingblind.livejournal.com/440815.html

Has been revealed:

http://ratmmjess.livejournal.com/214032.html

And yet new question remains... why is Jess Nevins (ratmmjess) the one to reveal the next stage of ( Read more... )