GREEN RONIN TO PUBLISH HOBBY GAMES: THE 100 BEST
Essay Anthology to Feature All-Star Line Up

March 21, 2007--SEATTLE, WA: What are the best hobby games of the past 60 years? Green Ronin Publishing and award-winning author and editor James Lowder put the question to 100 of the industry’s most influential and outspoken hobby game designers, authors ( Read more... )

It's that time of the year again. Every spring around this time, after the initial deadline for the Origins Awards has passed and been extended and passed again, someone in the game industry wakes up and says, "Hey, the rules are different! What's going on?!" sparking the annual round of "We fixed it!"/"You broke it!"/"Who cares?" bickering as ( Read more... )

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Shannon Appelcline has posted the latest in his history of hobby game companies, this time with the focus on a company near and dear to my heart, Lion Rampant ( Read more... )

I rarely talk about gaming here, this is NOT a gaming blog and aside from general job-related venting over administrative details that occasionally piss me off I make every effort not to discuss Green Ronin business here ( Read more... )

The Gamestas have put up a podcast interview with Sam Chupp during which he talks about his earliest days at White Wolf and some of his experiences with the various people and projects there ( Read more... )

The insightful and wise Robin Laws lays out exactly what a good playtest group should be. In his very Canadian style, he stays away from the sorts of overly direct criticisms I might have included in such a write-up (Rule #1: if you want the game designer to take your comments seriously, resist opening up with some varient of 'Whoever designed this ( Read more... )

I see the announcement has finally broken on this at GTS. Been waiting on pins and needles for the official work to be released, so here it is ( Read more... )

Sometimes, no matter how clearly you think you're speaking, people are still going to look at you as if you're from another planet.

In our New Year's message, Pramas had this small comment on Blue Rose:

Our 2006 schedule is one of endings and beginnings. In the first quarter of the year, we are going to be putting out the final Thieves' World ( Read more... )

1) When at a convention and wearing an exhibitor's badge it is extremely rude to try and bully a discount out of another exhibitor by saying, for example, "How many of these have you sold? None, I bet. How about giving me a discount?" One might expect this behavior from clueless fans. From fellow exhibitors, it's unforgivable. Lesson: the bar ( Read more... )