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Medieval Urbanity

February 10, 2016

Looking back through Sword’s Edge, there are a lot of articles that might still be of interest. While I am not writing fiction or creating much these days – between my actual job, my Master’s program, and my family, I’m Read more…

Role-Playing Games, Writing

Guardians of the Borderlands

August 15, 2014

During the thinking-phase of my planning for a Pandora Excess campaign which I could offer up as a possibility to my gaming group here in Ottawa, I came to a realization: Borderlands 2 and the Guardians of the Galaxy movie Read more…

Personal, Role-Playing Games

Pandora Got Pulped

August 12, 2014

So it seems that I will be working on a pulp campaign for my RPG group in Ottawa – which I still refer to as the Ottawa Warband, a name applied to the group during our long True20 Viking campaign. Read more…

Role-Playing Games

Flooded Steampunk England

October 23, 2013

It’s late at night and I should be heading to bed, but I also need to get an article up. Sleep is for closers! I was playtesting the scenario building system I’m working on for Nefertiti Overdrive, and the scenario Read more…

Role-Playing Games

Assault on the Mountains of Madness from Modiphius

March 10, 2013

I’ve been kept busy with my own Kickstarter campaign for Centurion: Legionaries of Rome (which you have supported . . . right?) so I haven’t had a chance to keep you all updated on another exciting Kickstarter in which you Read more…

Role-Playing Games

In Which I Consider Peanut Butter

September 17, 2011

The great dilemma, as revealed in the last post, is the system which I’ll use for a new modern military, Covert Forces-style campaign I’m plotting out. Crunchy/robust or smooth/light? How do you like your peanut butter/RPG? In order to answer Read more…

Role-Playing Games

Forcing the Covert

September 15, 2011

I’ve been thinking about, plotting, and planning a new RPG campaign. This one is going to be a modern Covert Forces style campaign. Now, in the past, there would have been no dilemma—I would have run it in d20 modern, Read more…

News, Role-Playing Games

Mundus Novit at RPG Now

July 12, 2010

Repost from SEP Although the release was done in the stealth model, Mundus Novit: the Changed World is available at RPG Now. This reminds me of Clerks: “I Assure You, We’re Open!” The sourcebook is systemless, it provides the secret histories and Read more…

Role-Playing Games

A Defective Story?

April 22, 2010

And here’s the hook for your next modern action adventure. This has got it all: an exotic locale (unless you live in South Korea, though I did for 3 ½ years, and I still find it exotic), government assassins, and Read more…

Role-Playing Games

A Peace of the Action

April 18, 2010

I’ve been listening to some lectures about the history of warfare, and—more particularly—the effect of warfare on history, or the lack there of. What is fascinating is that in the first urbanizations in the Old World (Uruk) and the new Read more…

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