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The First Thing You See When You Open The Book & The Last Thing You See...
Cheng is working on the endpapers for Demon City.Post-Vornheim design means you use the endpapers, especially for things the GM might wanna reference all the time.So from the left we've got the action...
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Demon City Rules Index + European Shipping News
This is either really boring or really exciting but we got European shipping for Demon City down to about 17-25$ if you're into that. Official statement:" (mind you this can change somewhat- roughly a...
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Sunday, on vacation, have a layout
I've been far from home and very busy lately, but I liked Jeff's thing here.And here's something Cheng did with one of Scrap Princess' monsters for Demon City:Click to enlargeGive to the Demon City...
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Differences Between Game Groups (PIG-PIP)
PIG-PIP Theory of RPGs Part 3.Here's 1Here's 229. Common differences between game groups.Differences between individual players (including the GM) are discussed a lot more than differences between...
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"The Game" (that is, "the words")--PIG-PIP
More RPG theory. Thoughts and suggestions welcome and needed.Part 1--Intro to PIG-PIPPart 2 Part 330. Game Text As Reference Vs Game Text As SpeechTabletop RPG theory has usually, in the past, taken...
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Ken Hite on Demon City and The Gen Con Info Post (2018)
Just got finished texting with Kenneth Hite--he's agreed to do two Demon City stretch goals--one on sacred architecture as horror and one on the Lovecraftian mythos.It's not on the Kickstarter page yet...
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Original Art For Sale At Gen Con
About to find out how long the line to get my Gen Con tickets is, then head over to the LotFP booth (#2911), this is just to say I'll have original art for sale over there is you want it.And don't...
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Goliath's Head (Annotated)
So if you haven't heard the news, this is a fairly accurate summary of Friday's annual Ennie awards for achievement in RPGs at Gen Con:OSR annihilated.This isn't just a post about how awesome that...
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Corruption, Repo Men and more
Some contributor work for Demon City. One from journalist and Hand to Mouth author (and, ssssh, gamer) Linda Tirado (NY Times review here) and one from OSR godfather Jeff Rients of the...
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101 Nymphs 100 Octopuses 98 Adventures
Why Is There A Nympharium?To understand what will come next, you should first accept the following premises:-In Chapter Three of T.H. White’s The Sword In the Stone, Merlin says “But I unfortunately...
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If You Want To See How It Works In Play
A lot of people are curious about how the tarot card mechanic for Demon City works in play and how the game feels at the table in general. Luckily the guys at the Red Moon Roleplaying podcast have...
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Interview on Demon City and LotFP
This is a post GenCon interview from Full Metal RPG.And in case you missed it, here's an actual play podcast.Only two more days left in the Kickstarter.
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14 Hours. And the combat system
If you're wondering how the Demon City combat system works specifically in play, here's a podcast where we demonstrate exactly that.If you haven't yet secured your copy of Demon City, you've got 14...
View ArticlePhilosophy, Branding, Activism, Progress, Debate & The Future of Games
The Nice And True ThingThe other day on some social media, a popular author wrote a nice and true thing.They were talking about some piece of entertainment for young people and noting--accurately and...
View ArticleA Sexual Fantasy
I would like:All of the online game people who get excited about Lamentations of the Flame Princess and the other DIY RPG work it inspired with all its weirdness and body horror and transgression and...
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New superhero game, cool dice tower, Lamarckian Orcs, more
-Art above by Richard A Kirk who I think you should check out if you want an alternate Fiend Folio-Zak, why so few updates? Because I'm writing 3 RPG things at once: Edits for Demon City based on...
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Force Multiplier
You may be sick of hearing about the graphic design prowess of Mr Shawn Cheng (hire him) but this is several thousand orders of magnitude better than your blue sky projection of what you want to happen...
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Fighting The Last War (Post-Traumatic Innovation)
One of the very first things I did when rediscovering RPGs was find Shock: The Social Science Fiction RPG. I think I was googling "Philip K Dick""RPG".It was a storygame, I thought it was pretty neat....
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The Human Machinery of the RPG Business
This week the Roll20 people fucked up so bad it made Newsweek. In a move utterly true to their story-game roots, they banned someone even while admitting they hadn't done anything wrong. Then defended...
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There Will Probably Never Be An RPG Review Better Than This
Source.Maze of the Blue Medusa: Worth 3 cars & 2 years of your life. Get it here
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