Tag: Secret Fire RPG

  • Procrastinating timey-wimey stuff

    I’m going to be pretty candid with myself here. I think I’m largely failing right now as a writer, or even game designer. This doesn’t really upset me, as I can pretty much pinpoint the cause of my failure to get on with any writing – now that I know what the reason is! Ultimately: it’s all timey-wimey…

  • Sanity Check – dealing with self-doubt

    The Sanity Check is a common test in The Call of Cthulhu RPG, and it’s as good a title as any. This is slightly off-topic for the usual blog but I think it’s relevant to a certain degree. Ultimately it’s why gaming has been good for me, and helped me grow as an adult. RPGs…

  • William Heron’s 40, ‘K?

    It was my 40th birthday earlier in the week. The last twenty years seem to have passed so quickly, but its quite a long time when I think about it. In that time I’ve changed careers form Audiovisual to Computing – I probably wouldn’t have been the best AV guy anyway given that I was…

  • Way of Tree, Shadow & Flame for The Secret Fire RPG

    The Way of Tree, Shadow & Flame for the Secret Fire RPG has now launched on Kickstarter! It’s not everyday that I get the chance to self-promote an RPG I’m involved with on my blog (sorry if its a bit self-promoting!). Last year I blogged about writing my first piece of freelance work for George…

  • 2013 RPGs – Looking forward

    I’m going to try and write a bit more about the last year gaming-wise in a separate post (more on this to appear later). I’ve started doing this every year, as a sort of retrospective of things happening in the Edinburgh Games community, ORC and elsewhere. For now, here’s a very short post detailing some…

  • D&D4e – A Watch Upon the Border

    I’ve always been someone who adapts to circumstances as they happen, but hate being an early adopter! Working in IT, I always wait until the first service pack is released before upgrading an Operating System (OS) and I tend to carry that over to gaming rules-sets as well. I’ll freely admit that Dungeons and Dragons…

  • RPG plans for Summer 2012

    I’ve got quite a bit of things planned over the next few months, both on the site and at ORC Edinburgh. And its not just me: there’s a mini-campaign of the Dragon Age RPG kicking off, a Pathfinder game, a GURPS Swashbuckling Superhero game, as well as my own Marvel Super Heroes game. I’m also…

  • First time freelancing!

    I’ve just finished 27,000 words on Demons for the Secret Fire RPG, the first supplement: Fragment 1: The Way of Tree, Sword and Flame. For me, this is the longest thing I’ve ever written on a single subject and I’m kind of chuffed to get it done with several days to spare until the deadline.I’ve…

  • March Madness!

    I’ve not had the chance to blog much recently as I’ve been too busy. It’s crazy at work too! Currently I’m writing 20,000 words on the Demon/Druid War for the Secret Fire RPG‘s first supplement, Fragment 1: The Way of Tree, Sword & Flame which is due in at the end of April. Ed Greenwood…

  • The Secret Fire RPG: The Demons Shall Arise!

    Last year I did some work on The Secret Fire RPG for Secret Fire Games – much of the flavour text in that book is from my own twisted mind as it were – mainly the monsters, a lot of the spells, and the setting descriptions. One thing I’ve learned from the game’s release is…