Dinosaurs have an amount of mystery to them, as no living human being has seen one for real. Jurassic Park made us wonder what it would be like if they were still alive today and had a zoo full of them. While the movie had an ominous plot, it’s
At Origins a publisher wanted to make sure that I checked out a game that he was working on with a new designing group. I was able to check it out and was impressed by it. Basically you played two comic book characters fighting against each other by rolling dice.
Ross Watson, a designer with a storied career in design, shares some hints aobut the future of Warhammer 40k roleplay and touches on what it takes to be a professional RPG designer. His work has touched gaming far and wide, including Shadowrun, Rifts, Star Wars, Marvel Superheros, and his own settin
In a very real sense, everyone who has played a role-playing game is a designer. We have all tweaked rules or made new ones whole cloth to fit our games. That said, there is a world of difference between the informal ideas we throw around the table at one another,
While the cyberpunk theme is popular in the world of science fiction, it’s not heavily used. The merging of technology with humankind is becoming more reality, so you’d think that we’d see it more as a setting. Emergence: Dark Ops is the sequel to Emergence, taking the
Sometimes you see a game on Kickstarter that looks good but just doesn’t have the hype behind it because it doesn’t have an established publisher. Sometimes these games will get the attention of a publisher later, go through some spit and polish, and fund in a successful campaign
While I don’t mind reading through a rulebook, teaching games continues to challenge me. I don’t have a problem getting the rules of the game, but translating them to the the people at the table seems to be difficult. Plenty of videos explaining the rules have been created,
When Asmodee bought up some of the entities within F2Z Entertainment, a few groups decided to create their own publisher, and Plan B Games was born. Their inaugural original game comes from designer Emerson Matsuuchi, creator of the hits VOLT: Robot Battle Arena and Specter Ops. He sat me through
