Observations on Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Beta

Posted by on Jun 15, 2011 in DCCRPG | 0 comments

Goodman Game’s Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Beta has arrived. Gentle readers, before I go much further let me come clean on two points: I’ve been playing D&D for a long time, but the bulk of that role-playing happened using AD&D rules.  I mostly leapfrogged 3rd Edition altogether going (more or less) straight from AD&D and 2ED until a few years ago when I took up 4ED. In those later years, I became a fan Goodman Game’s DCC modules. IMHO, they are this...

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Design is done! Well, kinda…

Posted by on May 28, 2011 in 4ED | 0 comments

So my friends the module is now finished and Cat has completed all her design work. I did a read through of the module at it all looks good except for one bug in the page numbering, so when she returns from her hockey tournament we should be good to on releasing the module. This is an ad I made for the upcoming BP-3 module from Blackbyrne Publishing. It’s a tweak of the back cover of the module and shows the “Alabatross Hunter”, one of the monsters from...

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Top franchises that should be made into an RPG

Posted by on May 7, 2011 in RPG | 0 comments

So, I was thinking about the good work that @atminn and @glimmthegnome were doing to create an X-Com role-playing game – a noble endeavor indeed that I anxiously away –   and it made me wonder what other properties are out there which should be made into a role-playing game. I should also point out that while I’ve played other old-school RPGs in the past (1ED Boot Hill, 1ED Gamma World, 1ED Traveller, 1ED Champions), I have not had the chance to play many...

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