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I’m really excited about Dreamation this year. I’ll be running a couple of games of Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack, some Shock:Human Contact, and in general playing with and enjoying the company of people I like and people I don’t ( Read more... )

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Hurricane Irene really set me back on finishing up Kodrek. But I managed to get a video of play up in time to get it into the Thousand Year game Challenge!

Also excitingly, I’ll be printing up booklets and sending out games in the ( Read more... )

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Want to see something neat? This is Scott Dunphy’s Contactor, Spooky Motion At A Distance. The game’s got some really neat features! The expedition has already failed once - they got to their intended colony, only to find it dead, ( Read more... )

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In an early Human Contact game, a player asked me why Academics go to the stars. The answer is this video.

Another Sagan quote, this one from a rejected layout that we might yet see in a future edition of the game:

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