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Happy New Year from Mindjammer Central!
Wow! What a year. I don’t think I’m the only one looking back at 2012 with a sense of vertigo and dizziness – that was as turbulent a twelvemonth as I think I’ve had since the late 20th century! It’s...
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Dungeon World – Actual Play (Part 2)
In my previous post, I started off with some initial impressions of Dungeon World by Sage Kobold Games, including an Actual Play writeup of my first session, playing through the awesome old AD&D...
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Dungeon World – A Handful of Giants…
It looks like we’ll be playing our third session of Dungeon World this weekend, adventuring through that hoary old AD&D classic, G1 – Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. I’ll write up my thoughts on...
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Short Story: The Clockwatcher
I thought I’d post a little short story for a bit of fun today. I wrote it after a stint in Stockholm interpreting for Rostropovich and a Japanese TV crew – ie a whole bunch of years ago – but I still...
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Mindjammer 2nd edition sneak preview: The Chembu and the Planetary Intelligence
Hey folks, I’m deep down in the New Commonality of Humankind this month, doing the final write-through of the upcoming Mindjammer 2nd edition RPG, due out spring 2013 and using the new Fate Core rules....
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Old School Modern – Creating some New Fantasy RPG Rules
You’ve probably realised I’ve been on an Old School binge since before Christmas, trying out various RPG systems in my hunt for a set of rules which will hit my old school sweet-spot – replicating the...
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“The Next Day” : Bowie’s new album
The Brown Dirt Cowboy and I listened to the new Bowie album, “The Next Day”, last night. It was quite an experience. The first listen through, we were extremely disappointed; the songs sounded weird,...
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The Monsters & Magic RPG
It’s been a busy few months! My last post on RPGs was way back in January, mentioning a little thing I’d been working on since Christmas I was calling “Monsters & Magic” – my own take on the old...
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Monsters & Magic – a sample character
Here’s a sneak peak at “Gramfive the Grim”, one of the sample characters from the upcoming Monsters & Magic RPG, available June 2013 from Mindjammer Press and Chronicle City. As I mentioned in my...
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Monsters & Magic RPG: Creating Characters
Last week, I posted a first look at the character sheet for our upcoming OSR RPG Monsters & Magic (out early June), as well as a sample character from the game, Gramfive the Grim. This week I...
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Monsters & Magic RPG: Introducing the Effect Engine
Last week, we looked at character creation in our upcoming Monsters & Magic RPG, available June from Mindjammer Press. As the launch date approaches, I’d like to talk a little about the core...
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Monsters & Magic RPG: Example of Play
Last week I talked a bit about the Effect Engine, the rules mechanic which underlies Monsters & Magic, my upcoming Old School Renaissance fantasy RPG from Mindjammer Press, due for launch now in...
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Monsters & Magic RPG: Higher-Level Play
We’re now exactly a week away from our target release date of 12th June 2013 for Monsters & Magic, the new OSR fantasy roleplaying game from Mindjammer Press! That makes today the final preview...
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Farewell to the World Speculative Fiction Blog
So there it is. The World SF Blog is closing its doors. For the past year and a half I’ve had the great good fortune to be fiction editor of the World SF Blog, the online magazine of stories and...
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GenCon 2013
This year I’m not at GenCon, for the second year running, as we work to build up Mindjammer Press from its foundation roughly a year ago. All being well we’ll be there in 2014. However, even though...
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A Rejoinder to James Burke’s “In the Year 2100″
Yesterday the BBC posted a video article by James Burke on his predictions for the year 2100AD – 87 years from now. You can view the video here. It’s an interesting report, not the least for James...
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Mindjammer RPG – At last it’s coming!
After almost a year on the biggest roleplaying game project I’ve ever worked on, it’s coming at last. The Mindjammer 2nd edition roleplaying game, built from the ground up using the brand-new Fate Core...
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Mindjammer RPG – Transhuman Science-Fiction Roleplaying
That picture on the right-hand side – by the awesome Jason Juta – is Thaddeus Clay, a culture agent controller from the Security and Cultural Integrity Instrumentality, better known as SCI Force. The...
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Mindjammer RPG: Genotypes and Extras
Last week we looked at the upcoming Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game very broadly, talking about the kinds of transhuman science-fiction games you can play. This week I’d like to drill down a bit into...
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Mindjammer RPG: Occupations
This week I’d like to talk a little more about occupations in Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game. As you’ll see from the preview PDF, occupations work similarly to the cultures I talked about a couple...
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