Play Everything V-Day Sale
For this weekend, Brianna Reed & I are doing a weird sale concept themed around Valentine’s Day: if you order a Play Everything poster from now through Monday,
Ask For Things, Part II
A couple years back, when Gen Con announced the call for industry insider guests of honor submissions, a number of people stated apprehension about putting their hats in the ring. As a result, I wrote about how you should ask for things. Gen Con just put out their call for 2014 industry insider guests of
Emerging Threats Unit: the Name
The name “Emerging Threats Unit” didn’t come to me in a dream or in a moment of idle shower thought or anything like that. Some folks know that a few years ago I worked for California state government (and I guess more of you do now), mostly for the California Department of Food & Agriculture.
Decoupling Aspects from Phases
In Fate Core, character creation and aspects are meant to be a module you swap out for specific settings. But in reality, we didn’t really give a lot of space for that. The aspect dynamic in Core is: The core notion of the character’s role, and make an aspect Something interesting that makes the character’s
What I’ve Learned in Ten Years
Today marks ten years since the first time I got my writing published — an article in Pyramid Magazine that I reposted a bit ago. I feel like I should mark this occasion by sharing some of what I’ve learned so far on this journey. (Warning: some of it will not be kind words.) In
Enter the Paradigm Project
Dave Chalker and I love the hell out of Mage: the Ascension, we love Fate, and we love a bunch of other games. You’ve probably seen he and
