Posted inConventions

“Do people still go to cons?”

This year, Q-CON celebrates it's 15th year. It was sixteen years ago that I finished the 'market research' of conventions in Ireland (via Gaelcon and Warpcon - and getting illicit…
Posted inWotW: Earth

WotW: Earth – The Second Launch

"Hundreds of observers saw the flame that night and the night after about midnight, and again the night after; and so for ten nights, a flame each night. Why the…
Posted inCommentary

Gates of Hell

A couple of pics of a really accessible volcano. Easily re-used for something gaming...
Posted in23rd Letter Commentary Game Design

New Downloads

Some people were looking for them so I've put some downloads on the books page: Wildtalents fanzine 1 60K PDF Wildtalents 3 fanzine 1.5MB PDF Wildtalents 5 fanzine 373K PDF…
Posted inCommentary In-Character Industry

Man vs…

The topic of conversation this morning in the car was the substance of plots. Traditionally, we have plots which are Man versus Man (and yes, I intend to keep the…
Posted inCommentary Industry

The State of the RPG Industry

An article on MSNBC writes about the woes in the RPG market: "Wizards does not reveal sales figures, but Pramas estimates the overall market for traditional role-playing games at $30…
Posted inOut-of-Character

Site refresh

Bear with us while we engage in some site jiggery-pokery.  Those of you who subscribe to the feed shouldn't notice any difference.  Also it's a bit harder to tell who…
Posted inReview

Albion

Okay, maybe this proves I'm not a comic geek but I'm seriously underwhelmed. It's like the British version of Planetary. And not very good.
Posted inGame Design WildTalents/Godlike

OREs Magica

I spent some time at work today thinking about things that could be done with the ORE system. I admit that I've not yet had the chance to really test…