I’m really excited about Dreamation this year. I’ll be running a couple of games of Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack, some Shock:Human Contact, and in general playing with and enjoying the company of people I like and people I don’t yet know that I like.
I’m very pleased to say that all Kodrek sets have now been sent! Some folks may have already gotten them. I’m really looking forward to hearing about peoples’ games — video some and show me! — and how they house rule the game. It’s designed with some deliberate flexibility and commentary on what taking advantage [...]
The 1.0 rules of Kodrek are complete! I’ll be sending boards out to all the Kodrek-level Kickstarter backers just as soon as printing is complete. The timing means that I’ll also be entering the game in the 1000 Year Game Challenge. It’s got some stiff competition! Kodrek is a game with a funny background. It comes [...]
I just spent the last weekend at Connecticon with Emily Care Boss, Robert Bohl, Epidiah Ravachol, and a ton of really awesome people. Thousands of them, in fact. We played some games, sat on a couple of panels, and sold some games. Connecticon’s got a real concentration on making stuff. The costumes are ubiquitous, handmade, [...]
When the Contactor Temporary Reduction in Entropy arrived in orbit around Relimeët, its members found themselves in intense debate over the proper location for their elevator. The environment faced them with extreme hostility. Two stable Coriolis storms slowly orbited the equator-spanning ocean of the planet, spinning off unpredictable eddies of smaller hurricanes and ruling out [...]
The colony Efwehasht The subtle axial tilt and mid-habitable zone orbit of Efwehasht (“Arbor”) make for a wide, verdant temperate zone. The three smallest continents cover much of the northern zone, while the southern hemisphere is dominated by vast, rocky deserts. In the temperate zone lives a robust and varied ecosystem. Many subtle niches exist, [...]
Hey, I like to talk a lot! Want to hear me talk about Shock:Human Contact? Listen to the first of the two parts! Want to talk listen to me talk about Kickstarter? Listen to part two!
In an early Human Contact game, a player asked me why Academics go to the stars. The answer is this video. Another Sagan quote, this one from a rejected layout that we might yet see in a future edition of the game: As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth [...]
