Posted inArt Frontier Layout

Frontier: opening the book

I find myself thinking a lot about Frontier these days. (It's probably because I have some self-imposed deadlines for 'Illusion' and '6'.) Over the last couple of years I've harvested…
Posted inCommentary LateGaming

COPS – Japan Stylee

Eamon, a technologist in the area of Cybernetics I know[1], posted this: "If you peruse Japanese foreign-resident forums you'll read a depressing amount of stories about foreigners being told to…
Posted inCommentary

Tonight…

...I'd like to be recording a podcast. But that's, like, a heap of work.
Posted inReview

M&M2e: hero or zero?

Mutants and Masterminds gets a lot of airplay on the internet forums: any time someone asks about superhero games, a raft of people come out of the woodwork to impose…
Posted inCommentary Frontier

Transhumanism

In 1966, Transhuman was defined by F. M. Esfandiary (later, FM-2030) as: included physical and mental augmentations including prostheses, reconstructive surgery, intensive use of telecommunications, a cosmopolitan outlook and a…
Posted inGame Design

Current games in development

As mentioned a few posts ago, here is a list of the games that have gone through our idea filter and dropped down into the Book Development stage. If you're…
Posted inCool

Lucky Ringo

Greg Stolze writes on his web page: What I learned ... is that the best creative partnerships are the ones where each of you thinks the other guy is doing…
Posted inGame Design

How we design a role-playing game

I thought I'd share a bit about how our game design process works and (in a subsequent post) what we're currently working on. This is not necessarily the best way…
Posted inGame Design

Game Developers and Publishers

I've just taken over editing of the Game Developers and Publishers area on dmoz. If you are in this arena and want your site listed there, please submit it through…
Posted inPrinting

Paper, PoD, PDF

All of the books we've published (whether as Crucible Design or LateGaming) have been less than 100 pages. In general, this has felt big enough for the game that was…
Posted inCool

UFO files from The National Archives

Lots of PDFs, a video and an MP3. The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002. So if you want to find out more about…
Posted inCool

Vader escapes custodial sentence

You couldn't make thisup. "The judge was on the verge of sending the Dark Lord to prison for the maximum possible term but abruptly changed his mind when Vader lifted…
Posted inCommentary

BRP

Let it be known that I hate BRP. (because I fumbled a dodge twice tonight and put myself out of action both times.) Really made me feel like a great…
Posted inSaur

Saur: introduction

Half a decade ago, when Crucible was still about, we tasked ourselves with a job to create games settings in one week and bring them back to the fold. The…
Posted inCommentary

RPGnet whiners strike again

I loathe it when the RPGnet whiner crew crawl out of the woodwork and accuse people of being passive aggressive with the threat of bringing down the mods. You can't…