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Come Tuesday, I will be bound for Origins 2011. I’m trying something radically new there this year.

I’m not going as a publisher.

That’s not strictly true, of course. I’m going to check out the Origins Awards and hope for (but not expect) a win, and that’s an undeniably ( Read more... )

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Jeff is going to be making enough changes following our first round of Zeppelin Armada playtesting that we’re going to want to do a second round in another couple weeks or so. For this, we need both our prior playtesters already on board, and a handful of fresh-blood folks who ( Read more... )

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So, we’re going to be producing Do: The Book of Letters as the Do kickstarter runs its course. This will be a digest-ish sized booklet, hopefully around 32 black and white pages, containing additional letters and letter-writing advice for the game, adventure seeds, and so forth ( Read more... )

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Fundraising Exceeds Expectations for Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple
New storytelling game for YA and family gamers wins massive support

In less than a day, the fundraising campaign to publish Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple met its ( Read more... )

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So when I prepped this morning’s post last night, the Do kickstarter was at less than half of its initial $4,000 goal. Right now as I’m writing this, the kickstarter is inches away from hitting its goal, and it will probably hit it before I’m done writing. Am I shocked? Well, ( Read more... )

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As I mentioned before, Evil Hat is looking at getting into making card games, relying on Jeff Tidball to do the design work and share the benefit of his extensive experience with us. We’re trying to start reasonably modestly, and - as with anything - work our way up to bigger ( Read more... )

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This is a bit of a companion piece to Hack: Use Your Grid-Maps With Fate. Symmetry.

So, you like Fate‘s idea of zones, and you’re not a fan of the one-inch-square map gig, but you’re playing 4e, and you definitely want to see a map get some action, just not one with all of that ( Read more... )

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Different format this time, because I wanted to use a spreadsheet.

The high level “gut” view: sales were down (as expected) in the fourth quarter of last year, but not horridly so. In terms of sales volume, for example, Q4′s DFRPG sales were only a few hundred less than Q3′s for ( Read more... )

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Resolutions or not, here’s your mission in 2011:

Play More. Run More. Share More.

Sounds simple, and it is simple, but just because something is simple does not mean it’s easy.

Play More because playing more makes you happy, and your happiness is important. Own that, make time ( Read more... )