The Truth is Not in the Middle
This is pretty much a followup to yesterday’s post. People thinking I should talk about games more and the industry/community less can go fuck themselves. This shit is important.
Read more...This is pretty much a followup to yesterday’s post. People thinking I should talk about games more and the industry/community less can go fuck themselves. This shit is important.
Read more...One of the less enjoyable parts of being on the internet is dealing with other people. Don’t get me wrong, some of them are lovely—Matt McFarland and the fine folks of Growling Door, Alyssa and the Fünhaver crew, Avery McDonaldo, and many others that I’m forgetting.
But of the seven billion people in the world, a lot of them are arseholes.
Read more... fuck stauts-q gaming politicsPart of me wants to talk about the closure of the World of Darkness MMO. It’s not an easy thing to think of — the people working on the MMO were the remaining parts of White Wolf. I have friends among the people who have lost their jobs. I don’t want to trivialise the fact that they must now find new places to work.
At the same time, I do want to note the passing. Papa Chuck must have taught me wrong, though, because I can’t find them. So instead, I’m going to point you to the words of two friends, and two better writers: Chuck Wendig and Aaron Debski-Bowden
Read more... white wolfBack in September I wrote about my experiences during the first three months of Pay What You Want on DriveThruRPG. I went back to look at a longer span.
Read more... self-publishing for stoatsBlack Seven is now an electrum best-seller on DriveThruRPG — it’s in the top 4% of products sold there.
To celebrate, I’ve reduced the PoD price to $10 — the same price as it was during the recent new-year’s sale.
Read more... BLACK SEVEN gaming self-publishing for stoatsDriveThruRPG does a yearly “New Year, New Game” sale. This year, over 80 core rulebooks are discounted by 50%. The big one, at least from my perspective, is Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition — I can’t not mention the game I’m line developer of, natch.
But what if you already have W20, or want more than one new game? Below the jump, I’ve listed seven great games that you’ve probably not heard of.
Read more... other people's brilliance werewolf