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Down and Out In Demon City
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Equipment Lists Don't Have To Be Boring
Click to enlargeThis is Shawn Cheng's concept sketch for the first page of the Demon City equipment list--he's using stock art right now but the plan is to draw in the items like in those old X-ray...
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The Mayor of Demon City
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The Show
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Ennies We're Not Going To Win (But We Already Won)
So on July 4 I found out Frostbitten & Mutilated was nominated for 6 Ennies this year! That's more than any other product but we're going to lose them all. This is good news--because we're not...
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Rob Donoghue, Evil Hat, and the Dead Baby and 6 Million Jews Want An Apology
I'm Jewish.As some of you might know, I have a longstanding interest in researching how Nazis dealt with art and culture and how they used the theory of "Degenerate Art" to lock up artists and destroy...
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Ennie Voting Is Live And So Is This Interview Stream
So Matt Finch is doing an all-day stream of the OSR Ennie nominees.Right now me and James Raggi are on with Glynn Seal from Monkeyblood and Daniel Fox from Zweihander.Vote for the Ennies HEREVote...
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Why Are There No Female Ennie Judge Nominees?
Indie game developer Robert Bohl asked a provocative question yesterday:Why indeed? Hmm...Oh gosh. Let's check around the first time I was nominated for a bunch of Ennies...I guess we'll never...
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Terrible Takes On Frostbitten & Mutilated
Click to enlarge I don't think you'll regret itSo a while back I announced this Terrible Take Contest for Frostbitten & Mutilated.We have our winners!Now, in these heady days of cartoon dogs...
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Relevant Retropost Saturday: Take The Rubies From The Demon's Eyes
So, a little context.It's awards season in gameland again, and the losers' big mood has moved from harassment to simple sour grapes. A twitter skim from this morning...Looking back, it looks like I...
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reign in blood.
So, 4 things...Thing 1:THE DEMON CITY KICKSTARTER IS LIVEthere's a video and everything and it's funny and guest creators and this is going to be the horror game to end all horror games and just click...
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Tarot cards are hard to draw you guys.
I don't want to draw tarot cards, but they're a Demon City stretch goal. I went on a short tweetstorm about it...You can click to enlarge itBut also don't forget it's Ennie season, so vote...
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He Knows Where To Stick Things
Art's one thing:Design is another:Click to enlargeThose of you who've been paying attention to the blog recently may have noticed the one-man-force-multiplier named Shawn Cheng dropping layouts for the...
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PIG-PIP Theory of RPGs
So this the first of maybe several posts attempting to create a new comprehensive theory of tabletop RPGs.It'll need your help.Here goes:PIG-PIP TheoryParticipants Invent Games-"Participants"Includes...
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What's a Game Text Do? Why are we playing? What went wrong? PIG-PIP 2
Part two of a theory of RPGs.Part one here.20. What Does A Game Text Do?A game text is a nonliving and static participant in play.("Static" barring releases of errata and, like, answers from the author...
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Relevant Retropost Saturday: Ideas vs Tools
Ok, in looking at RPG stuffs: there's ideas and there's tools.Ideas are like "Ok, it's like a sphere with a big eye and an evil little mouth and a bunch of eyestalks and all the eyes have different...
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Relevant Retropost Sunday: "A" Monsters Suck
Newer readers may not know that I went through every single page of the Monster Manual and talked about the creatures in order. They're under this tag. Here's the first one:I was looking through the...
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A Bad Baby
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Decks In Demon City
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The Quality of A Ritual
We all tend to like rituals, but when it comes to actually describing them in games we tend to choose one of two options:-Verrrrry specific rituals that basically only end up getting used once for a...
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