tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80684139112396065792012-01-31T16:56:41.703-05:00This is the game design blog of Jonathan Lavallee, independent game publisher, struggling English Graduate, bilingual nobody awash in a sea of games. This is how I think, how I design and how I produce most of the stuff with a very small cast of characters. Yup, that’s me. Broken glasses, unshaven, in front of a computer.Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.comBlogger2061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-36987129580259511282012-01-27T22:08:00.000-05:002012-01-27T22:08:29.065-05:00

Some of you might already have Shelter in Place by Galileo Games. It looks like a lot of fun and I'm running it for my partner's son for his birthday this weekend. I went through the book, figured I'd go and print out all the character sheets on nice solid stock so that they can take a beating from the bunch of teenagers that are going to mangle the things. To help me out I went digital and

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Because I'm a grown up, I will swear on occasion. We grant this privilege to grown ups because, ostensibly, we believe that they will only use swearing at appropriate times. One of those time is whenever I mention the game Bulldogs!, because it's really hard for me not to yell, "Fuck Yeah" after saying Bulldogs! or even typing Bulldogs!. With that in mind, I'm currently running a game of

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Every now and then I check the internets to see if anyone has actually looked at Geasa enough to review it. We've had a couple of reviews from Ed over at Robot Viking who is always game for looking at things. I think I didn't mention this but we got two other reviews. The first one was a review from Game Knight Reviews which had some rather lovely things to say about Geasa. The one

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Okay, I don't know if you've been following Matthew MacFarland's Curse the Darkness? It looks like a lot of fun, and it touches on post-apoc stuff which is very firmly in the category of games I enjoy playing. What I'm doing is letting everyone know that he's got a playtest booklet out that you can download from his website. It looks great and I'll let people know what it's like after I've

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Dr. Rob Lang who run the wonderful site 1km1kt.net (at the behest of OUR GLORIOUS BENEFACTOR!) and has The Free RPG Blog put forth a request over at Story Games asking for feedback on his How to Write a Free RPG stuff. Personally I like it, I think it's fun and informative and with any How To Guide you pick what you want and discard the rest. Rob gives good advice that you can use to write

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Hey Folks, I got an email from Brian Wood over at The Awesome Dice asking to give him a shout out, so I checked out the blog and the website. They're a Dice Retailer with their own dice and gaming related blog. I recommend you do it too. The dice seem reasonably priced, though I haven't checked with shipping, and it's nicely organized. I ended up going from link to link in the recommended

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I know we had a big splash when we posted the cover art, done by our wonderful artist Avery Liell-Kok. However, we've had this contribution level at the bottom where you can get a ring from the Queen Samantha's Collection. Well, I've got a picture of the ring to show you. It is a 10k Gold Ring with 4 Diamonds and 3 Emeralds in a very tasteful arrangement. It was once a ring worn by the

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Hey Folks, We've got the final cover art, without the text, for you to take a gander at. I love it. This book is going to be so much fun. Remember that you can contribute to the campaign at our Indie Go Go page. Contributors get cool things like maps, alumni t-shirts, their own character in the back of the book. There's even a diamond ring available, a real one which we'll probably be

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There is something awesome happening. We've got the logo for the GSSC alumni shirts ready thanks to Joe from Monkeyden Productions and the blog Underwear on the Outside. Joe is a great friend and he's been very supportive of the whole project from the get go, and he really was psyched to come up with the crest. So here it is, in all it's glory. I can't wait to get these on some shirts.

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Hey Folks! I hear some people might be a little hesitant to get in on the Indie Go Go page for Critical!: Go Westerly without seeing anything. Well, I'm here to give you an 8 page sample with one of my favourite sections available for anyone to just pick up and check out. You can grab the sample here. Once you've checked it out, if you are intrigued you can go to the Indie Go Go Page and get

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Well, we've got 1 year of Geasa as a PDF at least under our belts. So I figured I would check out what that meant for us as a whole, I mean I'm just an itty bitty publisher and if you can get about 200-300 sales of your book out that's pretty damned good. So, what are the numbers like? Remember, we do have two types of things to look at. The numbers for the purchase product and the numbers

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I was listening to @JeffMarek on the Marek vs. Wyshynski podcast, which if you're a hockey fan you need to listen to, and Jeff Marek made a Euchre reference. I love it, because Euchre is one of those games that I've played for so long that I can pick it up and get back into the game without missing a beat. The rules aren't really something I know as much as they are ingrained into my very being

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A friend of mine asked about the The Adventurer level, and he said something that made me realize wasn’t totally clear. Originally, it was supposed to be that you got listed as an Adventurer in the book, but that’s not nearly awesome enough. For those who have the Adventurer level, you will get listed as an adventurer in the book. You won’t have any stats, but you’ll get about 150 words

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I had a couple of people ask me why we are using Indie Go Go rather than Kickstarter for the Critical!: Go Westerly opening extravaganza. There are a couple of reasons. The first is that Amazon Payments don't like non USians. When I was looking into it, I tried to get something started there but it didn't like the fact that I didn't have a zip code. Oh, they will be more than happy to take my

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Okay folks, We've gone live with our fundraiser for Critical!: Go Westerly! It's over at Indie Go Go! However, I should point out that it isn't really a fundraiser. We can do this the normal way and pay for our artist out of pocket, as well as shell out for the printing. However, I want to give people cool stuff too. This is where you can get cool stuff. We'll post more details on the cool

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There are many reasons why you need to pick up Critical!: Go Westerly. I've listed them here, here, and here. Want one more? 5. The game really is yours. When we talk about the game being yours, we really mean it. The Critical! rule set is licensed under a Creative Commons license. Not just any CC license, but the BY-SA license which means you can take the rules, modify them how you want

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The Kobolds are back! This episode finds them cleaning up after some adventurers attacked. The opening and ending music is taken from Tom Fay - Watchers under a CC BY-SA license.

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I can't get enough of Critical!: Go Westerly. That only makes sense since I was involved with the making of it. However, I can like my game all I want. The bigger question is why should you want it? Well, there are a couple of reasons listed here and here. There are more, but I figured it's best if you're up to speed. Here's another reason. 4. The Art The art of Critical!: Go Westerly is

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There has been this thing happening, because games are always looking to swell the ranks (a laudable goal), where people are talking about how we need to teach kids how to game. Despite what the title says I think this is a great idea. There are many cool boardgames and card games out there that are fun, educational and a family event. I believe that teaching these types of games help build

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Hey folks, this post is all about Geoff chiming in on why he thinks you should pick up Critical!: Go Westerly! As the co-creator of Critical!: Go Westerly, I thought it would be a good idea for me to weigh in on why I think the game is pretty darn spiffy. After noodling around, I've decided to talk about a feature of our little game that I think is pretty important for game enjoyment and

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Hey folks! Joe over at Underwear on the Outside said nice things about Critical! Read it at his blog here.

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Hey Folks, The Kobolds are back! Check them out and hear their wisdom. The opening and ending music is taken from Tom Fay - Watchers under a CC BY-SA license.

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I think Critical!: Go Westerly is a great game. If I didn't, I wouldn't publish it. However, I think you should want to play Critical!: Go Westerly too. You can check out the other reasons why you should check out Critical!: Go Westerly here. So why should you want Critical:! Go Westerly? 2. It's Easy to Use Critical!: Go Westerly is a very simple and streamlined system. It's designed to be fun

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Okay. Just had a weird idea. Let's make a game together. Not in the regular let us develop something way, but kind of how we would do one of those creative writing games you do in a class or a writing group.The rules are that you get to write one line of rules text and it has to relate to the previous line of rules. You don't have to make it fit anything that has gone before.Just so you are aware

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Hey Folks, Critical! Go Westerly is awesome! However, you don't have to take our word for it. We've gathered a couple of experts to give us some insight on why you should pick up Critical! Go Westerly. The opening and ending music is taken from Tom Fay - Watchers under a CC BY-SA license.

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You may have heard that we're coming out with a game called Critical!: Go Westerly. I might have talked about it on this blog a few times. I might have talked about it on Voice of the Revolution and with the folks at Bacon Ice Cream. Geoff Bottone, who wrote the game with me, also had some things to say about the game with the Bacon Ice Cream crew. Clearly, I like this game. I like this game

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In other news, water still wet. Picked up from Deeper in the Game originally. I had thought it would lead me to an rpg.net thread or something similar but I wasn't too surprised that I ended up a Story Games. Basically, to sum up the [rage inducing thread over at Story Games](http://story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=15217&page=1#Item_0) it breaks down like this. {Enter} "Hey

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I was recently at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) and I got to thinking. There was that whole kerfuffle in the community about licensed products and their viability and blah, blah, blah. Lot of people complaining about games and kind of missing the point. Make games that you want to make, and play games that you want to play. By all means experiment and try new things, because doing

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There's a nifty little game that Joe over at Underwear on the Outside. It's an assassins like Business Card. I like the idea, I just think the text is a little much considering the size of the paper it's going to be on. Here's me doing a little re-write of it.

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Hey Folks, I just got my order of Geasa books in! This is awesome. Now, because of a couple of things that were unforseen I need to raise the price to 20.00$ rather than the 15 that it is now. However, if you get the book in the next two weeks you can get it for the 15.00 that it is now. Currently, IPR is experiencing some difficulties. You can get back to the page, but it's not branded

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The title here might not make sense to a lot of people. In fact, it's going to probably make sense to about three people off the top of my head that might even remotely look at this thing. See, "Standing On Your Head" is a cliche used by many announcers who watch when a Goaltender does everything he or she can to keep the puck out of the net. That's right folks, my Geek Out is totally Hockey.

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Okay, I'm only a lot excited. I got a notification that the books for Geasa should be at my door on Thursday evening. That means that people are going to get their stuff soon. Woo!

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One of the fun things that happened was an interview with Scott Wachter at Fan Expo 2011. We talk about the pun that is my company name, CyberGeneration, Geasa and Critical!: Go Westerly and some future projects! You can listen to it here!

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Another book that I picked up at Gen Con this year was Bulldogs! Sci-Fi that Kicks Ass! by Brennan Taylor and Brian Engard. Now, I got to see bits of the alpha, which made me really want to get the book, so when Brennan said that there would be copies available at Gen Con I knew I had to make my way to the IPR booth at some point in time during the convention. Well, I made it there on Thursday

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For all of you not paying attention, we've got a contest that's going on where you have to Blood-bowlify a winter sport. The original thread is here if you missed it. Well, with a month and a bit left to go I thought I'd post the link that allows you to put forward you finished product.

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Ah ... Fan Expo. What can I say about Fan Expo? I enjoy the person who runs the gaming section, I enjoy sitting down and playing games. I enjoy waiting for that shoe to drop that makes us all look at each other and go, "Uh-oh ... here we go again." This year that was the fact that all the gaming panels but one, the GM Masterclass one, got canceled for lack of space. Not that we were picky,

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People might be wondering where I am going to be this weekend, that will be at Fan Expo happening at the MTCC, which is right smack in the middle of downtown Toronto right next to the CN tower. What am I scheduled to do there? Nothing! I haven't got any games, and the panels we were supposed to do got kneecapped. However, we're working on something where we can have a little impromptu-kind of

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One of the two books I picked up at Gen Con was Unhallowed Metropolis. I love Horror Games, I pick them up almost out of habit, but this one I was looking forward ever since I first heard about the game. Now, something you need to know about me. The older I get, the less I enjoy fiddly bits. Fiddly bits, those little bits and pieces of games that so easily get lost. They're the million or

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Hey Folks! Quick update in regards to the book. So far, it's looking like December will be the release date for the book. If you're interested, we've got the amazingly talented Avery Liell-Kok doing all the art for the book. You can check out the link that is her name and it will take you to her portfolio site. I'm excited to see what she is going to produce for the game. As for Geasa, I

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It's not surprising that many people haven't heard of the Erlmaigel. They are a pretty common star-faring race, but years of evolution have taught the Erlmaigel to hide everything from everyone, including people they know and trust. It's what happens when you evolve on a planet where you are considered a most delicious prey. You learn how to hide really well, but the Erlmaigel took that one

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If you read my Gen Con 2011 you know that I ended up running a game of Geasa for a group of people that didn't go so well. In the almost two years since I started running it, through play-testing and at conventions before and after it was published, only one game could compare to it in regards to it not going as well but the difference there was that the people seemed to be having more fun

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Well, since Kathryn over at the CyberGen Webcomic, CyberGen2027 made a bit of an announcement I guess I should make it official here and on the website. Firestorm Ink has officially given up the CyberGen License. It's been a really long and hard six years working on that line, and trying to come up with the products that we thought would do well with it. We've met with mixed success, and with

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Normally I find that I have a lot more fun at Origins than I do at Gen Con. It just seems to me that the atmosphere was far more relaxed than anything at Origins while at Gen Con it's nothing but pushing as fast as you can all the time. This year was the Turning Point. This year I walked in and felt like I was going to have a lot more fun this year than the I've ever had. We had arrived in on

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Gen Con is upon us, and while we're all waiting to go I figured I'd tell you where I'm going to be in case you want to say hello. Most of my time is going to be spent at the Smirk and Dagger booth which is located at 1621. It's a 10 x 20 booth, so it should be easy to spot. Just look for the people having a better time than anyone else. As for the schedule of events that I'm running, here's

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-91210424314144430572011-07-14T04:16:00.000-04:002011-07-14T04:16:54.787-04:00

My second con in three weeks just happened, and it's Dex Con in Morristown New Jersey. It's one of the largest local cons in the North East for gaming (where I include Toronto and anything 8 hours away for me, your geography may vary). I love this convention for a variety of reasons. I've gone there now for I believe it's six years and I've gotten to know a lot of the people there very well.

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You can read it here, or read it over at the Free RPG Blog but we do have a winner for the 24 Hour Movie Mash up RPG competition. Without any real peep of complaint the winner is Droog Family Song Book. My big question though, is what came in second for a lot of the judges. That's where the conversation really starts, and where it gets interesting which is why I want to bring it up. The

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-32888811670280476012011-07-04T05:08:00.000-04:002011-07-04T05:08:58.158-04:00

Well, the first attempt at doing an introduction wasn't so hot. This means I'm going to get back on that horse and see what I can do here. This is a draft copy, I'm looking for any feedback I can get on this thing. What is Critical!: Go Westerly!? Eat, Drink, Fight, and be Merry, each one of those is important because it’s been capitalized, but also because that is the basis of Critical!: Go

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-81034122070454414032011-07-04T03:21:00.000-04:002011-07-04T03:21:50.498-04:00

Origins 2011 had a lot of great moment, but one of them was meeting Steve Bergeron and his crew at Outrider Studios, another Crazy Canadian designer out of Cornwall Ontario. They had even got a booth! Which was both insane and, well, insane but it allowed them to meet a pile of people. I was one of those lucky people, they were really cool and eager to show off their game. This is how this

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Origins 2011 this year was an interesting convention for me. I was going, and for the first time most of the companies, and people that I know really well, weren't there. This meant that I would have to find something to do with my time, which mean that I volunteered in official and in unofficial capacities at a lot of places. However, I did get some good games in and I'd like to tell you

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-82190567774729240882011-06-22T02:00:00.000-04:002011-06-22T02:00:09.967-04:00

I'm going to be lazy and just link to Rob's blog in regards to Dave's Mapper. OMG it's amazing and you should check it out. The best part is that it's free.

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-43567348743574105062011-06-21T07:17:00.000-04:002011-06-21T07:17:54.643-04:00

I read up on what a couple people were saying to Brennan about the introduction to Bulldogs. How it should snag the reader, and give a good sense of what was going to happen inside the book. With that in mind, I'm going to be asking the people who read this blog (and there are more of you now, much to my surprise) what you think of the new and upgrade version of the Introduction. Note, this is

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-69187941356768597242011-06-20T01:58:00.000-04:002011-06-20T01:58:50.450-04:00

Hey folks, one more quick free game for you to enjoy on this Free RPG weekend. 6. Three Black Crows, Three Dead Men Brennan wrote a lovely little macabre game where you play three crows talking about the three corpses that are hanging in the gallows. You will use various pieces of the corpses to describe who they were as you play three crows with varying personalities. It takes about 30

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-73753370808852332532011-06-19T04:20:00.001-04:002012-01-10T04:26:46.754-05:00

Today was free RPG day and while I appreciate the sentiment I think that there's a lot of people who need to understand that it can be free RPG day every single day and not just when people feel that it's an opportunity to provide a marketing push for RPGs as a whole, though really only the ones that can afford to print a whole pile of free material in the hopes that you will pick up their books.

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-85258323061976755172011-06-17T03:02:00.000-04:002011-06-17T03:02:59.420-04:00

GSLamb over at 1km1kt.net had this to say about West Side Horror Just tried this game with friends last night - very fun. Our monster, iirc, was an alien-hybridized, hyperintelligent squirrel with a thirst for brain chemicals (Mr. Squeakers). We were all former lab assitants of a genetics project that lost funding (our Professor was Mr Squeakers' first victim), enthralled by Mr Squeakers. After

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-25839048350536142282011-06-16T05:57:00.000-04:002011-06-16T05:57:19.555-04:00

Since I'm involved in a contest that doesn't end until June 1st, 2011, I figured that I would do what I did with Game Chef and do reviews for people who have put forth entries into the 1km1kt.net Movie Mashup 24 hour RPG competition. I put my game up already, but since I'm not really going to review my own stuff, I'd rather get feedback from other people, I turn my attention to those the other

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-48435813519688225332011-06-16T05:13:00.000-04:002011-06-16T05:13:13.555-04:00

Since I'm involved in a contest that doesn't end until June 1st, 2011, I figured that I would do what I did with Game Chef and do reviews for people who have put forth entries into the 1km1kt.net Movie Mashup 24 hour RPG competition. I put my game up already, but since I'm not really going to review my own stuff, I'd rather get feedback from other people, I turn my attention to those the other

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-70971033491417493842011-06-13T07:09:00.000-04:002011-06-13T07:09:07.431-04:00

Since I'm involved in a contest that doesn't end until June 1st, 2011, I figured that I would do what I did with Game Chef and do reviews for people who have put forth entries into the 1km1kt.net Movie Mashup 24 hour RPG competition. I put my game up already, but since I'm not really going to review my own stuff, I'd rather get feedback from other people, I turn my attention to those the other

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-92215324278779631222011-06-10T07:24:00.000-04:002011-06-10T07:24:52.231-04:00

I've just recently got into trying my hand at miniature painting. A friend of mine once said that miniatures aren't really games, as much as they are a hobby all on their own and I finally got it. I tried to get into it a long time ago, like 9 years ago and I just didn't have the wherewithal to turn it into a hobby. I think that might be different now. I picked up Bloodbowl and the first

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-36618280604239606662011-06-10T07:02:00.000-04:002011-06-10T07:02:00.062-04:00

Since I'm involved in a contest that doesn't end until June 1st, 2011, I figured that I would do what I did with Game Chef and do reviews for people who have put forth entries into the 1km1kt.net Movie Mashup 24 hour RPG competition. I put my game up already, but since I'm not really going to review my own stuff, I'd rather get feedback from other people, I turn my attention to those the other

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-63217381274026119062011-06-08T06:52:00.001-04:002011-08-11T06:51:25.880-04:00

Time to do a theme for Geasa. I feel like I should do something slightly off the wall and fun to commemorate the fact that the book is finally at the printers. I have been on a wrestling kick as of late, so I figured let's try to make a wrestling scene for Geasa. Setting Weird things happens when you're a group of people who end up traveling together, especially when your job consists of

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-79311294919372235322011-06-06T06:07:00.000-04:002011-06-06T06:07:46.940-04:00

This is the part that I'm not good at, trying to hype up games that we're making that are awesome. I'll play the hell out of it, I'll run it again and again and again for people at a Convention, but I'm just not that good at talking about it in a public forum. The curse of the writer I guess. This changes. Geasa got a lot of good reviews from Critics, but that's all well and good. I want

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-89995483706517927682011-05-31T05:25:00.000-04:002011-05-31T05:25:56.391-04:00

I have just committed one of the huge cardinal sins of dealing with racism. I have called someone a racist, rather than their actions. However, I think I can be fucking justified with doing it this one time. Why? Well, Sid Meier -- of Civilizations fame -- came up with a game in 1995 called Colonization. That's right, it was a game where you played one of four European Nations who crossed

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-85762058516797242172011-05-02T10:26:00.000-04:002011-05-02T10:26:36.302-04:00

Hey folks! Gen Con event reg opened up not too long ago and I'm amazed that most of the tickets to the events that I'm running are sold! That means if you want in on any games that I'll be running you're going to need to get on them ASAP. Here are a list of games that I'm running with a when, a where, and how many tickets are left. RPG1119295 - Geasa - Thu @ 3:00 PM - Crowne Plaza :: Grand

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-12700735363774340272011-04-22T07:50:00.000-04:002011-04-22T07:50:45.184-04:00

There seems to be a large amount of contests that are going about the place. You've got Game Chef which should be starting up in a couple of months. You've got the Ronnies, which I still think is one of the most masturbatory titles in all of game publishing, which happen ... well whenever it seems. The key thing is that they get the creativity flowing and some really cool things happen from

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-19925594812895395252011-04-01T10:00:00.003-04:002011-04-04T05:28:55.851-04:00

Okay folks. I'm gonna try this every so often, just to see if people are interested in playing some blog games. This week we're going to do story time. I'll start with one sentence, after that let's get the next line in the comments and we'll go from there. Opening Line: This was the last time that Ella would ever let Jacob play a mean practical joke ever again.

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I've picked up a little bit more knowledge in how Geasa works. Not enough to do something about it, that also requires some more energy, but it's still something that's worked itself out. I think the ideal amount of people to play Geasa with is 4. I've noticed that most, or all of the games where I feel that the plot kept moving towards a central point. When you add more people it's still

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-68627647806798426542011-03-28T10:00:00.000-04:002011-03-28T10:00:07.565-04:00

Geasa has a really great review over at Voice of the Revolution. It's a great review. Check it out!

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-72879647229026658772011-03-21T05:40:00.000-04:002011-03-21T05:40:14.934-04:00

I put out Geasa, and most of the people I know have really enjoyed it. That's not to say that my Aunt really likes my games, but that I really like my games and people that are strangers come up to me and say that they like it and people I know who won't bullshit me also say that they like it. I appreciate that kind of feedback. That said, I show up on Drivethru RPG and I see that my "star

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-42637798498919789382011-03-14T10:14:00.000-04:002011-03-14T10:14:04.785-04:00

I told you that I was gonna start just picking at random! Take that internet community! At Dreamation I ended up picking up Kingdom of Nothing by Jeff Himmelman. Jeff does the writing as well as the illustrations for the book. It's the first book that Brennan over at Galileo Games published and it's the first one he didn't write. I've been meaning to pick it up ever since he started talking

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-38655945872105256182011-03-14T03:46:00.000-04:002011-03-14T03:46:54.933-04:00

Since I'm involved in a contest that doesn't end until June 1st, 2011, I figured that I would do what I did with Game Chef and do reviews for people who have put forth entries into the 1km1kt.net Movie Mashup 24 hour RPG competition. I put my game up already, but since I'm not really going to review my own stuff, I'd rather get feedback from other people, I turn my attention to those the other

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-17937490309738962082011-03-13T19:22:00.001-04:002011-03-13T19:22:08.881-04:00

I'll stop posting here about it, but my late Casual Friday post (because of PAX east and Camping) is up. I would suggest checking it out!

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There were a series of tweets that I came about 1/4 of the way into that turned into something that was full of head-desking fun-ness. I'm copying the tweets over so you can see the timeline. This would be ridiculous if it wasn't SO FREAKING TRUE! GeekyLyndsay @dazedsaveends gaming cannot be apolitical if you consider that the personal is political and you are donning the mantle of another

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-77694182616338731772011-03-10T03:50:00.000-05:002011-03-10T03:50:48.003-05:00

Since I'm involved in a contest that doesn't end until June 1st, 2011, I figured that I would do what I did with Game Chef and do reviews for people who have put forth entries into the 1km1kt.net Movie Mashup 24 hour RPG competition. I put my game up already, but since I'm not really going to review my own stuff, I'd rather get feedback from other people, I turn my attention to those the other

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-48354880983348897312011-03-06T10:49:00.000-05:002011-03-06T11:44:22.928-05:00

Adam Jury was nice enough to introduce me to Lyndsay over at Dragonchow dice bags. I had a good time talking with someone who was cool, fun, interesting over twitter. Since she did the dice bag thing I decided that I would get a couple of his/hers dice bags (yes, I will occasionally be that geeky) for Amber and I. I recommend that if you are in the market for a dice bag that you get one.

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-16935016011674822682011-03-03T05:15:00.000-05:002011-03-04T05:58:38.426-05:00

Since I'm involved in a contest that doesn't end until June 1st, 2011, I figured that I would do what I did with Game Chef and do reviews for people who have put forth entries into the 1km1kt.net Movie Mashup 24 hour RPG competition. I put my game up already, but since I'm not really going to review my own stuff, I'd rather get feedback from other people, I turn my attention to those the other

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-9217421892675195992011-03-03T03:26:00.000-05:002011-03-03T03:27:10.860-05:00

Dear people who made this ad on Drivethru RPG: You might want to consider all the non male GMs that are work hard to give their players a great and fun experience in their gaming lives. They work just as hard, frequently having to deal with a lot more crap that male GMs don't have to put up with. They too deserve an ad that doesn't exclude them. Really, it's not that hard to do either.

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-25171965066029626132011-03-02T07:06:00.000-05:002011-03-02T07:06:29.466-05:00

Okay, since bribery clearly isn't working I'm going to do something I probably shouldn't do. I'm going to start giving reviews in order to get reviews. If you want me to review something (I still owe people reviews of the 24 hr RPG) let me know and I'll do one here and post it up on drivethru and IPR. If not? I'll just start picking things at random.

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-33953006831796580522011-03-02T04:13:00.000-05:002011-03-02T04:13:43.945-05:00

There's a convention that I like to go to, and it's Dreamation. I find a pile of wonderful people there who I love talking to as well as get to play with a pile of games. Some of them are even my own. There were two games that we ran. The first one was Geasa, and I ran a lot of it since it's the new game that we're pushing, and the second one was Critical!: Go Westerly! We got a couple of

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-25491607661315307122011-02-23T10:59:00.000-05:002011-02-23T10:59:07.190-05:00

Hey Folks, Just giving a heads up here that Geasa is part of a charity package for a single mom that just got diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa. Her friend Elizabeth, from Two Scooter's Press, asked to put together a charity package and Geasa is a part of that. For 10$ you get 6 awesome games and an additional role for Apocalypse World. * Mars Colony, by Tim Koppang * Polaris, by

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-19987627491920017452011-02-21T05:40:00.000-05:002011-02-21T05:40:04.730-05:00

Since I'm involved in a contest that doesn't end until June 1st, 2011, I figured that I would do what I did with Game Chef and do reviews for people who have put forth entries into the 1km1kt.net Movie Mashup 24 hour RPG competition. I put my game up already, but since I'm not really going to review my own stuff, I'd rather get feedback from other people, I turn my attention to those the other

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-53347140736689677492011-02-21T04:01:00.000-05:002011-02-21T05:27:45.160-05:00

Since I'm involved in a contest that doesn't end until June 1st, 2011, I figured that I would do what I did with Game Chef and do reviews for people who have put forth entries into the 1km1kt.net Movie Mashup 24 hour RPG competition. I put my game up already, but since I'm not really going to review my own stuff, I'd rather get feedback from other people, I turn my attention to those the other

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-88604422452587874852011-02-15T08:01:00.000-05:002011-03-02T06:29:47.509-05:00

I finished my 24 Hour RPG because I really wanted to get that off the ground for a couple of reasons. It was a break from writing CyberGen 3.0 and Critical!: Go Westerly. It was a chance to get the creative juices flowing again in a different direction, which always makes them come back better when working on projects. It was also a quick mental challenge that, while draining, is something I

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-41455271676677423502011-02-02T08:15:00.000-05:002011-02-02T08:15:34.064-05:00

So I did a little bit of an unscientific poll on Facebook and Twitter yesterday. The question was, what should come first the Setting or the System. Now, I should clarify this question as what should come first in the book. Would you rather read the Setting first or the System first. I got 17 People who said "Setting," 2 People who said "System" and 5 people who said, "Get it together asshole,

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-16496854163937309722011-01-23T02:02:00.000-05:002011-01-23T02:02:11.098-05:00

Hey. This is a little late, but I've managed to get another set of flash game reviews up over at the Border House. This week, it's filled with AIs and stuff. Go check it out.

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-28766637126354242232011-01-14T06:54:00.000-05:002011-01-14T06:55:35.742-05:00

I was going to write a long post about Steven Long's post over at IPR. It was going to be filled with quote things and stuff like that, but in the end I think I could boil it down to the tl;dr version. Who cares? Makes games you want to play and have fun with it. Now I go write my own IP and pine for a Veronica Mars RPG. Look at that. 120 characters.

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-18232052688234420462011-01-11T07:22:00.000-05:002011-01-11T07:22:01.804-05:00

One of the things that I loved and loathed about CyberGeneration was the Slang that came in the book. Each yogang had their own slang and their own way of speaking, which I thought was great. Then I read further and saw that they really tried to define it in the book, which I thought wasn't so great. Yes, I know that it didn't say that this was all the slang that they used, but there's

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-12918063854358364822011-01-10T00:47:00.000-05:002011-01-10T00:47:03.211-05:00

There's a great thread over at 1km1kt that's interesting to me. It's all about customs in societies and how you can use them in your game communities. Well, SheikhJahbooty posted something that I thought was pretty freakin' amazing over in this post. I think you should check it out, because I think it's an interesting topic but I'll give you the conclusion: "I mention these to suggest an

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-70506648263460322682011-01-03T00:30:00.000-05:002011-01-03T00:30:46.707-05:00

Yay! The first review of Geasa from Ed over at Robot Viking!

Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00271253447979460916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068413911239606579.post-12492079368165423452010-12-30T01:52:00.000-05:002010-12-30T01:55:16.524-05:00

Check it out! Not that it's got a review but we got lots of mention and love from Voice of the Revolution. Remember, we've still got that contest going. If you want to review Geasa, and I want honest reviews I don't want people blowing smoke up my ass, and post it to either IPR or Drivethrurpg you can get a free copy of the book. Only the first five reviews count towards this, and you have to

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It's been a little over a week that Geasa has been on the market. The sales have been surprising for me. Mainly because when we put out Mile High Dragon to say that it was met with very little fanfare, or anything remotely considered to be a single ticker tape made me uncertain as to what might happen. Well, Geasa was a very pleasant surprise. For the first week, the sales at Drivethru have

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Part of Geasa is that the rules are under BY-SA license. Which means that I created a document that was a pared down version of the main book to be used as a reference. I had some advice from someone who has been spending a lot of time with free RPGs and they feel that it could be better. I agree, anything can always be better and since this is the free document I'd like people's advice on how

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It's up on Drivethrurpg! You can find the link here. Once it's up on IPR we'll let you know. There you'll be able to pre-order the book! EDIT: Just to let you know, for one dollar more than the book is going to cost when it's here you can get the book and the pdf on preorder! Check it out at IPR! This does mean that the contest is on! ^_^

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I got asked if there was a FAQ for Geasa. There isn't one, but I figure that I might as well have a place where people can go and ask questions. So, here is the post where I say, "Ask any question about Geasa that you want."Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5

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For some reason I can't seem to get the Game Chef site to recognize that I am a person, and not a spam bot, which means that I'm going to post here saying that a group of us ended up playing Going Home, A Power Fantasy by Mikael Andersson. Now, this was the first time the game had been played. Which is always nice because you know that you're gonna run into speed bumps, but that the person who

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Radio silence is finally over. That means Geasa is done. The PDF should be going up on IPR, with preorders for the book, and the PDF will also be going up on Drivethru a little while afterwards. I'm really happy with the book. Then again, it's my book. I should be really happy with it. However, I want to know what you think about it. That means I'm going to hold a contest. To the first

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Since I'm in the middle of getting a couple of projects finished I don't usually have much to say on this thing. To keep the momentum going, let's play a Blog Game. I'll give you the first line and then you can fill in the rest. That is if anyone else wants to play. So, "You know you've a good game session when ..." You look outside and realize that the sun is starting to rise again

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Someone just posted this over at the Self-Promotion page at the free rpg forums and I thought I'd share. It's someone who does specialty dice. Holy crap they look cool. Check them out. They even have an "open source" how to guide on how to do things yourself. http://dicecreator.wordpress.com/

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After many, many, many, many, many false starts Geasa is finally in the layout stage. What does that mean? It means I've got a cover to show you. There have been some updates, like putting my name on the front cover and the URL of the website on the back, but ultimately this is what it's going to look like. I'm pretty stoked. EDIT: Note, I've updated it so that it has all the stuff that

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It's that kind of atmosphere here folks. We're in the thick of things and it's going to go all the way! Just kidding. The playoff format for Game Chef 2010 were just posted up on the site and we've got until December 5th to crown a winner. There is a complete list of games that made the finals, go check it out. However, to make things easier for me I've gone and posted the list of games I

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Well my review is up over on the Game Chef but I'll reprint it here as well. Over The Wall by Jonathan Lavallee Concept: You play cloned human youth raised to be the hope and future of the denizens of a dystopian robot city in which flesh is currency and everyone wants some, because you have to be part human to make it over the wall to the paradise beyond. Very cool. Execution: The designer

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