Category: RPGs
September break!
I’ve been a busy guy over the last fortnight, both at work and at home. Work has been mad, but I’ve found some time to complete the following at long last. Secret Fire Games – website I’ve built a new website for Secret Fire Games, using WordPress and also phpBB3 for the forum. I created…
Playtesting RPGs
Over the years, I’ve participated in playtests for a number of games, often as part of ORC. It’s a good community to run such games in as we have a variety of different gamer age groups – from younger gamers just starting out in their first RPG, to those who first played D&D in the…
The Secret Fire Ignites!
The Secret Fire RPG is off to GENCON! While I can’t make it to the world’s biggest gaming convention, George Strayton and Secret Fire Games are going to be there! I’m feeling rather chuffed with myself at getting so much done for the game along with the others at SFG. I guess I really am…
Where have all the GMs gone?
It’s a little ironic that up until recently, the Open Roleplaying Community Edinburgh (http://orcedinburgh.co.uk) suffered from a lack of players and a venue. Now we’ve got plenty of players and venues… and no one to run RPGs 🙁 Seriously. That’s how much it has changed recently: from what used to be lots of people wanting…
Narrative Games
In this article, I’m going to try and provide a few hints for GMs about actually running an RPG (whilst its written for D&D perspective it holds true for all RPGs). Combat Whether its the figures on a board or just keeping track of what is going on, combat is one of the most frustrating…
Kickstarting!
Let’s get this party started! The RPG I’ve been helping with, Legends and Labyrinths (Secret Fire games), has now started a Kickstarter project to enable L&L (as it is called ) to be published. Kickstarter is “the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world”. Th game is hopefully going to be released in…
Dark & Dangerous
Well, I completed my work on the The Secret Fire RPG yesterday, right on schedule. Having never been involved on developing an RPG on a real basis, this has proved something of a learning curve for me. It will be officially released at GenCon – yes, THAT GenCon! When you design as part of a team,…
Dawn and Development of the (un)Dead
I’m feeling fairly fired up creatively speaking. I’m planning to get a lot of development work done this weekend for The Secret Fire, the new RPG that I’m helping develop. Certain shackles have been released (the game won’t be OGL any more) – so the D20 side of things is less restrictive, and we can…
Beta Test Blast!
As I’ve blogged previously, I’m involved in some of the development of The Secret Fire RPG. I ran my first game of it at ORC (as Maze Controller or MC) on Saturday and it went really well. You can see the footage from the Beta Test game of TSF here : WARNING: it includes much…
Ruminations & Realisations
As you might have heard, my life has taken an interesting turn recently. As a result of me becoming involved in the The Secret Fire Beta test I blogged about previously, I’ve also become involved in helping to develop the game in some small part. Without breaking an NDA, I’m actually enjoying the creative process,…