Let me first say how truly delightful it is to have wordwill back in Chicago. Not least because he drove me down to Indy and back, such that the trip passed in a blur. The system works!

The lede of this post? The Day After Ragnarok won the Indie RPG Award for Best Supplement, and the Gold ENnie for Best Setting. I expected neither of those to happen, and ( Read more... )

* As it happens, Stuff I Did (or Did Part Of) is up for four ENnie Awards: Cthulhu 101 for Best Regalia, The Day After Ragnarok for Best Setting, and Wild Talents 2nd Edition for Best Game and Product of the Year. (It's also up for Best Rules, but I had absolutely nothing to do with the rules, so it's beyond even my legendary arrogance to claim it ( Read more... )

If that doesn't get people to click through, I don't know what will.

Anyway, my newest Day After Ragnarok release, Return to Monster Island, is out! All my childhood years playing with plastic dinosaurs and army men in the back yard are now tax deductible! Seriously, this one got away from me, almost as if the manuscript were hit with Embiggening ( Read more... )

There is a very common night-spirit in pretty much every Indo-European culture called a mare. It's what the "night-mare" is; not a horse, but a (usually) spectral old woman. Sometimes the mare comes from a living witch, other times not.

In Polish, it's the mora, which means "moth" in Slovak. The mora can turn into a moth, which makes sense -- ( Read more... )

It's time for another roundup post! Links ahoy!

* Silvia Moreno-Garcia of the Innsmouth Free Press interviews me on Divers Topicks, including the squamous ones.

* Leaving Jeremy L.C. Jones to ask me writerly stuff at Booklife, not excepting the rugose side of things.

* Breaking things up, Andrew Girdwood of Geek Native interviews simonjrogers about my ( Read more... )

* If you're one of those people who has an iPad on order, now you can have a Where the Deep Ones Are iPad App on order, too! Like the iPhone version, Appness performed by the legend that is Derek "Le SuperCool" Pearcy.

* At GTS last week, The Day After Ragnarok and Cthulhu 101 were both nominated for Origins Awards -- in Best Roleplaying ( Read more... )

* First, allow me to note that Serpent Scales #2: (Happiness is a) Sten Gun is out for Day After Ragnarok. It presents statistics, background, story seeds, and gob-smackingly useful and inspirational info about the best-beloved bad gun of World War II. It's available directly from Atomic Overmind and from DriveThruRPG and eventually from all fine ( Read more... )

So with all that in mind, how did I do with Tehran: Nest of Spies? (Also available at Paizo, e23, RPGNow, and IPR, should you prefer those estimable outlets. He hinted.)

I'm honestly asking, here. In my initial estimation, I figured it would be a six-page product, not including the double-sized map of Tehran. At our DAR layout, that's about 4,200 ( Read more... )

* Imagine my surprise when the Chicago Public Library actually had Cherie Priest's two monster novels, Fathom and Those Who Went Remain There Still, sitting on the shelves like they belonged there. When they so clearly belonged on my shelf, but in lieu of that I checked them both out and read each one in one sitting. Those Who Went Remained There ( Read more... )

... in the form of The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated, idiot guidance by me and graphic illustration by the redoubtable Shepherd (Stagger Lee) Hendrix. I've seen the art, and I wrote the script, but I haven't gotten my author's copies yet, so this will have to be but a bare and insubstantial plug ( Read more... )