design from a long time ago
It s been a year since I released Mythmaster RPG. Well technically, it will be a year on Wednesday, but today is a holiday and I have a busy week ahead, so I decided to push the 1 Year Anniversary Update early. For those who haven t been following this adventure, Mythmaster is a fully featured, fantasy [ ]
So the other day I received notice from TypePad, where this blog has been hosted for nearly 20 years, that they were shutting down. I suppose that s not a surprise, given that long(er) form writing on the internet seems to have largely collapsed since increasingly bite-sized social media platforms have taken over. Mostly I think [ ]
Today s my birthday! To celebrate, Wizards of the Coast were kind enough to release the all new 2024 edition of the Player s Handbook for Dungeons Dragons. But what s even cooler is that today also marks the 40th Anniversary of the day I first played D D. Way back in 1984, I didn t really know what [ ]
I just so happens that I do a pretty good Ian-McKellen-as-Gandalf imitation. I also have a not-half-bad Sean Connery, an okay Marlon Brando, a passable Patrick Stewart, a poor but at least consistent Clint Eastwood, and a laughable attempt at a Harrison Ford. All of these amateur impressions were useful to me more than ten [ ]
Five years ago, for Far Cry 2 s tenth anniversary, I wrote a whole series of blog posts reflecting on some of the great criticism the game had generated. Today marks the game s fifteenth anniversary, but rather than revisit that exercise, which was a lot of work, I ll leave it to the experts. Lewis Gordon has [ ]
A few nights ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Tim and Brett at Dev Game Club after they had just spent the past five episodes of their podcast playing and talking about Far Cry 2. The series starts here, and the interview is the last one. I worked briefly alongside Tim at LucasArts, [ ]
Back in the summer I mentioned that I had submitted an entry to the One Page Dungeon Contest, which challenges creators to make a table top RPG adventure or dungeon entirely contained to a single page. Of course, I thought one page?, pffff that sounds easy. Turns out, not so much. On top of that, [ ]
Years ago, I used to do a lot of tabletop RPG gaming. I played almost every weekend for probably about 15 years from the time I joined my first real D D group as part of a high school club in 1986 (yes, exactly like in Stranger Things), until I moved to Montreal in 2001 to [ ]
To conclude this series on my favorite pieces about Far Cry 2, I have chosen a handful of pieces that, for one reason or another, I felt did not ‘fit’ in the Top 10. I chose to keep there pieces separate from the Top 10 for a few different reasons. For example, a couple of [ ]
I don’t think anyone could have predicted this would be my number one. For all of the number ones you were expecting, you’ll have to check Part 7 once it goes up in a couple of days. Part 7 won’t be so much a list of honorable mentions, as it will be a list of [ ]