Posted inCommentary Frontier

Questions about Frontier

Back in the day, Eamon, Colin and I did spend some time discussing the concepts a long time ago but it's clear that we had divergent ideas. Some of these…
Posted inCommentary Frontier

Citizen: a skill?

In our BRP-based Runequest game, Michael has asked a few times for rolls on 'Gloranthan Lore' and 'Human Lore' so that we can remember items from our own cultures. Because…
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 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 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…
Posted inGame Design

systems, systems, systems

Is it right to design another system for a game? At the moment we're still writing War of the Worlds, though we've started development on Status: Refugee and a Supers…
Posted inCommentary Industry

Ransom

The idea of ransoming game material is definitely new and innovative. It's being done rather successfully by Greg Stolze for his Reign supplements and there's a Delta Green book 'Targets…