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Watch Us Play: Vicious Crucible of the Verdigris Valley
Originally published at joshroby.com. Please leave any comments there.
Tonight, instead of hitting Reload on political websites, I ran The Vicious Crucible of Verdigris Valley for some folks on Google Hangouts. You can watch us all act funny and figure out how to play over the Internets (my first time!)
It's an hour and fifty-five minutes, and we ( Read more... ) -
Void Vultures
Originally published at joshroby.com. Please leave any comments there.
Ten years ago, the powers of Earth and their many solar colonies erupted into vicious, system-wide war. With terrible weapons at their disposal, both sides reduced every planet and moon to irradiated dustballs. Years of mass starvation and deprivation later, survivors strain ( Read more... ) -
Smallship Trooperville
Originally published at joshroby.com. Please leave any comments there.
When I was writing Watchtower Report, one of my most useful brainstorming techniques was thinking about other shows, movies, and properties that I'd like to run using the Smallville RPG. Starship Troopers was one of these, and part of developing the ideas in the book was putting ( Read more... ) -
Handy Words for Skin Tones
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I went looking on the Internet for a list of adjectives to describe skin tones. I was thoroughly defeated. So I put this together, trying to avoid those with the worst connotations (although see note). These aren’t ethnology or sociology terms, but descriptive words. The color ( Read more... ) -
44: A Game of Automatic Fear, by Matt Snyder - Free!
Matt Snyder (author of Dust Devils, Nine Worlds, and various other awesome things) has published his new game, 44: A Game of Automatic Fear, for free from his site. As a bit of backstory, Matt initially started 44 as a design challenge. The game has surfaced before as a playtest ashcan - and a very pretty one - and Matt has taken the feedback ( Read more... )
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