I had an idea regarding my upcoming S&W game today*. I could steal an idea from Weapons of the Gods (a nifty martial arts rpg with some nifty ideas) and write up some lore cards with bits of information about the world--mostly stuff that character's could pick up in the main starting area if they took an interest in a particular subject. For ( Read more... )

I had an idea for the central dungeon of my S&W game last night--a large rift in the ground through which the top level of the dungeon (mostly natural caves and crudely cut passages) can be accessed. That means that character can--with some effort--access a number of different floors (I expect these floors will also have less obvious, more ( Read more... )

I'm planning on running Swords & Wizardry (essentially the original D&D rules with some tweaks; also a free download) in the fall. So, I'm being talking to people in my area about what sort of game they like to play, and (since that didn't illicit much response) thinking up ideas on my own ( Read more... )

There's now a thread on ENworld devoted to critiquing the Great Conjunction entries, and Deep Black is the first the original poster looked at.

At some point in the future, I’m planning on doing more with Deep Black. First I want to see how the contest goes, get some more play testing done (especially play testing with other people GMing the game), beef up the content some, and lay it out proper (I did the version for the contest in Word). I plan on bring it around to some of the forums ( Read more... )

I just posted Deep Black on ENworld, and I am now super nervous about it. It doesn’t help that today’s also the deadline for the Goodman Games Book of Rituals open call. I sent in my 14 entries Thursday, but that’s yet another reason to be nervous ( Read more... )

I ran another playtest of Deep Black yesterday. It was a little slower than the last game, but most of us were a bit on the tired side ( Read more... )

I have a version of Deep Black that I think is complete enough for playtesting. It's still far from finished, but if anyone wants to take a look at it, I'll send them a copy.

If I had my own place, I would totally do this.

When he came up to visit Charlie told me about the Grand Conjunction, a game design contest over on EN World. The basic idea is to put together a complete game that involves magic in some meaningful way. The deadline’s February 28th and the contest caps the page count at 50 pages ("Holmes BD&D rules + 10 pages ( Read more... )