When Covid began, I had a brief exchange with another designer about converting all the things we loved about Starfinder into a 5e based system. Despite being based on a D20 mechanic, there are differences between the two games. The … Continue reading →
Please ignore the extraneous 1s, the tables are easier to work with if they have something in the cells. For many years I wanted to develop Galaxy Pirates as a D20 based RPG, I started out with D20 Modern and … Continue reading →
We’re writing game supplements for Wild West, Victorian and Steampunk games and while the Wild West and Victorian stories have some real world history we can tie them to, Steampunk varies widely as a genre. The first thing we always … Continue reading →
Recently I got asked to write a guest spot on a popular network, you know the one. The post turned out to be about using mysteries in RPGs. I really wanted to pull on the thread of making mysteries different … Continue reading →
In 2005/2006 I wrote up and ran a Mutants and Masterminds game for my local gaming group, we were genre/game swapping and superheroes came up. This is the timeline of world events leading up to the game. 2005 IBM and … Continue reading →
I had a colleague ask me today about the OGL, and really OGL questions are normally about Section 15. It’s twenty years old, you hang out long enough in RPG publishing spaces and you see a lot of questions about … Continue reading →
One of Tim Ferriss questions for different experts is what activity is a waste of time and while I’m not going to be totally binary on that front, I would like to talk about business activities you need to start … Continue reading →
Today I’d like to talk a little bit about firearms in your 5e game, I’m not going to have the firearms don’t belong in fantasy discussion, I want to focus primarily on modern 5e settings where firearms are appropriate. The … Continue reading →
In 1854 Smith & Wesson patented a lever action pistol using rocket ball ammunition in .31 and .41 calibers. There are a lot of half truths and flat out lies about these pistols The .31 caliber No. 1 pistol shot … Continue reading →
I’m going through a lot of my early notes on the Galaxy Pirates design and playtest. January 19, 2012 my base materials were D20 Modern, D20 Future and Pathfinder 1e which I felt had improved things over the 3.0 baseline … Continue reading →
