All of this is still early, so it is very much subject to change. But I'm going to write some form of a cyberpunk game with an antifascist vibe like Adventures In The Unknown. Anyone who knows me knows that I love cyberpunk, and if you've g…
I keep saying that I am going to dust off the blog and start posting to it again, and now I have some news that's going to cause me to be more active here. Outland Entertainment, the original publishers of my Action-Heroes Adventure Role-Pl…
This is a book that has been on my to read lists for a while. For comic fans of a certain again, most of the time we've been fans have been marked by the summer events or big company crossovers. From the JLA and JSA summer meetups of my chi…
I don't often finish reading a comic and think "Holy shit. I have to say something about this." Honestly, if that were the case I would have a lot more posts here on my blog. Today I decided to get out and go to the comic store, something t…
Before the Silver Age of comics, comic books tended to have a loose interpretation of continuity. If previously published comics fit into a story that a creative team was currently telling, that was awesome. If it didn't, someone sat around…
In the ramp up to launching the Kickstarter for the game, I talked about a couple of the primary influences on my design choices for the game. The name Action-Heroes is an homage to a line of characters originally published by Charlton Comi…
The 2000AD magazine owes a debt to earlier comics magazines like Action and Battle. Where Action magazine crawled, and ultimately stumbled before being taken down by political forces in the UK, Judge Dredd would eventually stand up and walk…
1) The "estate" of Lovecraft, Lovecraft Properties LLC, who tried to get publishers and authors to acknowledge them as rights holders to Lovecraft's works had been dissolved by the state of Rhode Island in 2007. A collection of Lovecraft's
With everything going on in open gaming in tabletop RPGs right now, I have decided that I am going to release SRDs (system reference documents) for a couple of systems based on the Fudge role-playing game, to which I have the rights. I will…
Fate Condensed by PK Sullivan, Lara Turner, and Fred Hicks. Additional development by Richard Bellingham, Robert Hanz, and Sophie Lagacé. Based on prior works by Rob Donoghue, Fred Hicks, Leonard Balsera, Ryan Macklin, Clark Valentine, Mike…
(c)2013 Evil Hat Productions, LLC. Refer to the licensing pages at www.faterpg.com/licensing/ for details. This is the System Reference Document for use with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. The following attribution m…