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 →
So I bought this book on Kindle, it’s based on a print version, each tip covers a page of examples and explanation. I sometimes read books on tabletop game design, board game design and video game design, I wanted to … Continue reading →
So looking around I found the Randy Ellefson Art of Worldbuilding templates for species and cultures I found some things that you see in every book and yet had not been anywhere in the ideas that change everything. What do … Continue reading →
Part two in the story bible, this time we look at the Kopek intelligent machines. Kopek – level 1 The Kopek are self aware mostly humanoid robots descended from Berserkers a kind of robot sent to wipe out all life … Continue reading →
Owen wrote something about game developers sharing enough direction/information with writers for them to accomplish their assignment without assigning more reading that they would be writing. Owen specifically said preferences and feedback and the more you give them to read … Continue reading →
In the beginning I wanted to write a huge core rulebook for my sci-fi setting, that would have been a terrible mistake. I spent thousands of dollars on worldbuilding the art bible and very few people can afford to go … Continue reading →
Alright folks, we have been really quiet for 2020 and though we haven’t worked off our old lists yet I’m putting together a new list of where we are. Jim handed me a manuscript for his cyberpunk setting using our … Continue reading →
For as long as I’ve been running Pathfinder my players have used Monster Knowledge checks, only now with Pathfinder 2e not only can they critically succeed, they can also critically fail. In that regard, I want to tell you about … Continue reading →
