Category Archives: In-Character

New and Shiny: Enhanced: Super Soldiers in the Twilight War

Posted on April 18, 2024 by matt

We just released Enhanced. This one has been a long time in the making and, due to the amount of art (all done by humans), the most expensive book we have produced to date. Remembering that all of our books … Continue reading →

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A Hopeful Ending and a New Beginning

Posted on April 10, 2024 by AJ

We played our final session of The 23rd Letter play test this week, and wrapped up the story of Poppy and her baby. After recuperating overnight (under Joy’s watchful care, and a handy saline drip), Poppy recovered enough from her … Continue reading →

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Venting Pyrokinetics

Posted on April 1, 2024 by AJ

Our fourth and fifth in-game sessions of the 23rd Letter saw quite a lot of action! I’ll give a brief summary, and then talk about some of the rules that I think were interesting. I’ll put a * and a … Continue reading →

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A precog walks into a bar …

Posted on March 14, 2024 by AJ

Now a few weeks into the first play-test of the 3rd edition of The 23rd Letter, I wanted to post some updates on what’s been going in the game, and a few reflections as both Referee and game designer. First … Continue reading →

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Micro 2K

Posted on October 19, 2023 by matt

Today I released Micro2K – a distillation of the Step Dice Year Zero Engine as used in Twilight 2000 and Blade Runner. You can nab it here for nothing! It’s complete enough to be used with things like Twilight Tangents … Continue reading →

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Watchtower SF: August 4th

Posted on August 11, 2022 by AJ

Bergs in the Bay! San Francisco Chronicle Meteorologists were shocked today when a massive iceberg several miles long appeared off the coast of Marin County, seemingly on a collision course for the Golden Gate Bridge! “This iceberg cannot be a … Continue reading →

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Watchtower SF: some recent headlines

Posted on August 11, 2022 by AJ

Whyte Buys Watchtower SF San Francisco Chronicle, July 1st 2022 Jack Whyte, exotic and indestructible billionaire, adds Watchtower SF to his stable of Watchtower franchises. This brings his franchise total to four, starting in 2013 with the NYC franchise, and … Continue reading →

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T2000: Andriy and Alexei

Posted on December 30, 2021 by matt

Andriy turned the key in the ignition and the engine spluttered into life. …. Four days earlier they’d been slogging along the road, close to Srem. Both of them were so bearlike they could be mistaken for brothers, but while … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+35 (Flashback)

Posted on December 25, 2021 by matt

My situation is that I’m on the outskirts of Prague and I’m separated from my unit; perhaps they were all destroyed. I had to be careful, there was definitely a French unit around and some Americans. I stole a ragged … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+50

Posted on December 20, 2021 by matt

Necessity is the mother of invention. Yesterday I caught a rabbit with a snare I made from a bit of wire. I hid in the foot of a hedgerow and pulled the corpse from the wire. The rabbit had tried … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+44

Posted on December 14, 2021 by matt

It’s all gone to shit. It did get worse. Two days after the Colonel died, I woke from a nightmare to find Monk and Doc packing up their gear. They said they were going and they didn’t want me to … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+36

Posted on November 2, 2020 by matt

You ever get the feeling that things are about to get worse? As luck and dumb fate would have it, we weren’t able to escape the area as quickly as we hoped. A puncture on the UAZ and an alignment … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+35

Posted on November 1, 2020 by matt

I still have my shopping list. We didn’t make it to Prague. The forests here are a little threadbare. I think they might have taken some shelling but everything just looked unhealthy. Along an old road weaving through a forest … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+27

Posted on September 17, 2020 by matt

According to the Colonel, strong sergeants make strong soldiers. I can believe that. Our CSM was a soldiers soldier. You cut him open and he bled red, white and blue. He was just as you read about – moral, principled, … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+26

Posted on September 9, 2020 by matt

Monk is a strange fish. He doesn’t talk much, isn’t prone to fits of emotion but it’s plain to me that he’s suffering, you can see it in his eyes. When I think about it; we are all a bit … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+24

Posted on August 27, 2020 by matt

Progress has been slow. Monk warned us that running two vehicles was guzzling our gas so with great reluctance we siphoned off everything from the tank in “Dale” and filled up “Chip”. We covered Dale with branches and dirt and … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+22

Posted on August 25, 2020 by matt

The little things in life make a big difference. We’d just crossed into Germany and pulled into a town called Görlitz. It’s beautiful, even now with the smoke blackened towers and the burning fields. We were flagged down by a … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+12

Posted on August 24, 2020 by matt

I remember just after I finished Basic, I was late for Guard duty and the SM thought I should work it off in the kitchens. I spent days peeling potatoes, mopping floors and washing dishes. My hands were constantly wet … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+10

Posted on August 22, 2020 by matt

W+10 No. That is not the sunrise. We’d been near the town of Luban, not far drom the German border for a few days and was beginning to feel a little more human. The people of the town had given … Continue reading →

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T2000: W+9

Posted on August 21, 2020 by matt

After the fire raged through, we took the UAZ through a small town land on the outskirts of Warsaw. The bushes and trees and grass were still burning. I saw a dog, it’s back on fire, screaming as it ran … Continue reading →

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