Above a planet shrouded in fog lies the infinite Palace. A city-state, an archive, a woven diamond space station. Forget Starlight is a science fantasy roleplaying game set on an infinite feudal space station. Reveal and explore an ancient
Amberspire is out!! You can purchase it here! I’m quite tired, it’s been an ego death kind of week. Thank you to everyone who has already picked it up, and has left that all important review. Soon I’ll post more thoughts!
The players go hunting, after exploring several other optionsThe crew, having just accepted the job to escort the professor to a ruined city down on the planet's surface, stops to get more information. They chat up a stranded crew in the or…
A small run-in with the bureaucracy, and other mattersThe crew of The Dot Over Yonder have seen enough of the nothing that is the planet of Pixie, and decide to head to Metron which was the original destination of Talas, the previous sole o…
I realized I posted this a while back and never followed up. Well it's still happening! In fact it's nearly complete. The text is going through final edits and there's one remaining piece of art that I've yet to make. It's still very Troika…
The affair at the edge of the lakeHaving escaped their pirate hideout Marvelous and pilot/captive Talas arrive on Pixie, a nearly abandoned planet after corporate sponsors cut their losses and only a languishing smuggling and black market t…
The Referee engages in the contemptible activity known as game designI've often seen OD&D and Traveller described as 'more toolsets than games' and play style in the 70s as modifying the books to suit their needs. Certainly this seems true
Oops I have a lot of links piled up. Will just shoot all these off and not comment too much, but I think they're all good! Laura Michet playing Ostriv Everything Alloys on the frictionless design of Civilization Aura's IGF Roundup Dan Thuro…
Creating characters in Traveller is so much fun. I am not the kind of person to write backstory for a character unless specifically prompted and required to. I don’t enjoy doing it, I don’t enjoy acting it out, and it is challenging to forc…
I am running classic Traveller for my regular rpg group, and I’m very excited. After picking up The Traveller Book last year and reading it cover to cover, I was more than surprised to learn that classic Traveller is not the watered down sc…
In late April I will be speaking at the FÍS Games Summit, a one day games event in Galway. I am flattered to be invited and am really looking forward to it. I am working on a talk that draws together a lot of threads that I've been thinking…
The other day Brendan and I streamed Hollywood Animal, a film studio management game set in the 1930s. I think it is a game that is far more interesting than it is good. It has an, uh, eager manner in which it simulates the prejudices of th…