Taking Inventory
I recently did something of a reshuffle of some of my gaming materials, finally getting all my 1E rulebooks in one place. That led me to count just how many of each I’ve got… Monster Manual (2 old cover) Players Read More
Combat in Adventures Dark and Deep
For your weekend reading pleasure, I present a draft extract from my Adventures Dark and Deep Players Guide. This is the chapter on combat, in some ways the easiest, but in others one of the hardest, chapters to write. I Read More
RPG Business Models
Rjstreet over at Purple Pawn has a great article analyzing Games Workshop’s financial performance. That got me thinking about the nature of the business model of the role-playing game industry. Games Workshop has a model that presupposes that their customers Read More
The Real Waters of Mars
MSNBC has an interesting article talking about three different studies on Martian water, what it might have looked like when Mars had a hydrological cycle, and what might have happened to it (newest/best theory at the moment; a lack of Read More
A Week Unplugged
Well, damn! That was certainly annoying. We lost our Internet service last Wednesday evening, and have been wrestling with Verizon on getting it fixed ever since. Finally they sent a service tech out to the house, and he was able Read More
Another Name Change (last one, I promise!)
I confess I’ve never been happy with Emprise! as the name for my “Gygaxian Second Edition” project. It’s fine as it goes, but there are several problems with it. First off, most people aren’t familiar with the word itself. Sometimes Read More
