A thought that I keep thinking in the run-up to Wiscon: I can’t decide if it should be “Grant minorities in RPG-maker circles the confidence of mediocre white men“, or “Grant mediocre white men the confidence of minorities in RPG-maker … Continue reading
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Columbia Games, one of the two publishers of Hârn materials, has uploaded a clickable, Google Maps-style map of the island of Hârn. It includes a huge amount of information as pop-ups on the map. I once got to see one … Continue reading
I don’t talk too much about fiction here, and I don’t talk much about awards, either. But I have to mention this year’s Hugo for Best Short Story. The story that won was “Cat Pictures Please,” which might seem at … Continue reading
A sagacious reader noticed another actual error in Blade & Crown: the human encounters (starting c. page 122) have their SIZ calculated wrong. There was a stage in the development of the rules where SIZ was calculated as (STR × … Continue reading
Two very important articles on different blogs have been posted recently: Tanya D has some very important things to say about getting paid as a marginalized person. And how a lot of our work around diversity ends up getting repaid … Continue reading
I missed this post from Gianni Vacca back in September: Due to all the changes going on with Chaosium and their Basic Roleplaying/D100-based systems, Alephtar Games has lost licensing rights for Chaosium games, so Celestial Empire is no longer going … Continue reading
Episode 30 of Fresh Out of Tokens, featuring me, is up! When we recorded this last month, Tanya, David and I talked about all kinds of things: making it (or not) as a woman/trans/POC/otherwise marginalized game creator; diversity considerations when … Continue reading
Wednesday night, I’m going to be on the Fresh Out of Tokens podcast. We’re planning to talk about all sorts of issues related to diversity and making it as a marginalized creator in gaming fandom. Fresh Out of Tokens is … Continue reading
I keep making progress on Calteir. The CSS for the main webpage all seems squared away. Some very kind folks have given me very good advice about the campaign in general, and I’m doing a lot of thinking about all … Continue reading
You may have noticed what a big fan I am of Chad Davidson’s Heirs to the Lost World. It’s set in a 17th century New World where the Aztecs and Maya had access to powerful magic, and so the Conquest … Continue reading