In the realm of concrete words-on-a-page progress, I’ve got only a handful of scribbled notes to report. I spent a decent bit of the weekend fretting, cying, bellyaching, and tearing my hair out over this latest creative drought. Just yesterday morning I was ready to hang the whole thing up again. Then I thought, to … Read more
The Good News: I finished the initial playtest draft of Serial. If you’d like a copy, e-mail me at thebard at incarnadine dot indie-rpgs dot com. The Bad News: I only had time for one project and Serial was it. The new character sheet and Dreamation AP will have to wait until next week. However, … Read more
Well, I had off an entire day off due to snow this week and still topped 49 hours at work. That, plus a slew of family obligations and working on the playtest draft of Serial, the game about serial killers that I’m helping Kat with (it’s about half done), have left me with no progress … Read more
It’s been a nasty week at work, including half a day today (Sunday) and next week looks worse. But, I actually made some notes on the setting (yes, you read that right, I wrote setting-notes) of By The Stars. I was thinking about the rationale for and structure of an interstellar government. Combine it with … Read more
What? No confession? I’ve nothing to confess but being re-invigorated about designing my game. By The Stars? Didn’t you pull the plug on that thing a month ago? Some games just don’t know when to stay dead. Running a By The Stars scenario powered by WGP… at Dreamation last week really re-invigorated my interest in … Read more
Wow. Now that was a great convention! Dozens of events went off with barely a hitch to be found (at least that I heard about). Pick-up games and animated conversations scattered like snowflakes across several floors of the hotel. Double Exposure put on a great con, and the Indie Games Explosion was a great success!
Thanks to the bottomless ingenuity, dogged persistence, and tireless hard work of my wife, Kat, I will not be using Sorcerer as the engine for my By The Stars session on Friday. I’ll be using With Great Power… It will rock. Be ready.
Forgive me, By The Stars, for I lack the resources to go on. It has been eleven days since my last confession. What do you need to make a create a great role-playing game? What A Designer Needs What I Got Insiration/Passion It comes and it goes, but it’s usually good. Time/Thought Some weeks I … Read more
Another week without play or playtest in sight. Before the last scheduled playtest fell through, I was getting excited again. Even made some sketches. Maybe I’ll post them some time. Forgive me, By The Stars, I am on the cusp of failure. It’s been nine days since my last confession. I think I’m going to … Read more
Another week without progress. The playtest got canceled again. Forgive me, By The Stars, I am frustrated. It’s been one week since my last confession. Why is my progress so glacial? Why do I get nothing done? Two reasons, the lesser one first: My Day Job We’ve lost another person in our department recently, which … Read more