GEAR: Statistic and Skill Ranges
In the last post I settled on a mechanic for the game but left a few threads hanging. This post will address them. This weeks random steam punk picture is a picture of a steampunk horse by dasAdam. There’s no lore sections in here. I’ve been banging my head against a wall with them for...
Art of the RPG Demo
If you read my earlier post on PAX East 2010 you’ll perhaps remember I ranted a little about a terrible RPG demo I took part in for Wizards of the Coast’s upcoming re-release of Dark Sun. Dark Sun was my favourite of the old school AD&D settings, I was excited to see if finally return...
PAX East 2010: The Inaugural (part 2)
Part 2 of my review of PAX East 2010. You can find part 1 here. But Thou Must: choice in Games I walked in to this thinking it would be something completely different. I was expecting a panel on choice in games and how it impacts game play and design on a general level. In fact the panel was...
PAX East 2010: The Inaugural
I’ve not posted much recently as I’m still recovering from a manic and hectic few days over in Boston for PAX East. This was the first PAX East so it had a few rough edges but overall it was a good 3 days. Travel to Boston is much easier than Seattle so I can see PAX East being a more...
GEAR: Dice Mechanics (The Math Post)
In the last post I discussed the general kind of dice mechanics available and settled on a Bucket’O'Dice system. In this post I’ll look at the core probabilities and difficulty levels of the system. This is probably the single most important post of the entire system, everything hinges...
GEAR: Skills
In the last post I decided on the list of statistics used to model a character, this post will briefly look at skills and then move on to discussing various dice mechanics. This weeks random steam punk picture is a sculpture by Diarment. This ones a bit late out and its not got any nice lore bits in...
Annie Lennox – Backwards/Forwards
Nice mashup of Annie Lenox music videos. Read More →
GEAR: Statistic and Skill Ranges
In the last post I settled on a mechanic for the game but left a few threads hanging. This post will address them. This weeks random steam punk picture is a picture of a steampunk horse by dasAdam. There’s no lore sections in here. I’ve been banging my head against a wall with them for a week now with no real inspiration so I’ve... [Read more]
Art of the RPG Demo
If you read my earlier post on PAX East 2010 you’ll perhaps remember I ranted a little about a terrible RPG demo I took part in for Wizards of the Coast’s upcoming re-release of Dark Sun. Dark Sun was my favourite of the old school AD&D settings, I was excited to see if finally return and that the demo was so bad really annoyed me. ... [Read more]
PIXELS by Patrick Jean
Retro gaming meets Hollywood blockbuster style special effects Read More →
PAX East 2010: The Inaugural (part 2)
Part 2 of my review of PAX East 2010. You can find part 1 here. But Thou Must: choice in Games I walked in to this thinking it would be something completely different. I was expecting a panel on choice in games and how it impacts game play and design on a general level. In fact the panel was dedicated to talking about Obsidian’s upcoming... [Read more]
PAX East 2010: The Inaugural
I’ve not posted much recently as I’m still recovering from a manic and hectic few days over in Boston for PAX East. This was the first PAX East so it had a few rough edges but overall it was a good 3 days. Travel to Boston is much easier than Seattle so I can see PAX East being a more common venue for us Europeans than PAX prime (as... [Read more]
GEAR: Dice Mechanics (The Math Post)
In the last post I discussed the general kind of dice mechanics available and settled on a Bucket’O'Dice system. In this post I’ll look at the core probabilities and difficulty levels of the system. This is probably the single most important post of the entire system, everything hinges on getting good probabilities set down here. Mistakes... [Read more]
Hula Yulia Hula!
I really don’t want to think how much practice it takes not to drop any. Perhaps not as impressive as the naked woman hanging 20 foot over the stage with no safety net while keeping 20 going at once during the Cirque du Soleil show in Vegas, but still good to watch. Read More →
GEAR: Skills
In the last post I decided on the list of statistics used to model a character, this post will briefly look at skills and then move on to discussing various dice mechanics. This weeks random steam punk picture is a sculpture by Diarment. This ones a bit late out and its not got any nice lore bits in it. I just bought a new car and the weekend was... [Read more]
GEAR: Statistics
Following on from the previous post this time I’ll cover picking statistics. I’ve been told these posts need broken up a bit. I’m not an artist so I can’t really show of concept art. I do however write so I’ll include little lore snippets and such at the start of each section. Let me know if there worth keeping. This... [Read more]
Everything
Very impressive flip book animation giving a brief history of pretty much everything and unlike the similarly named Stephen Hawkings book I actually managed to finish this one. Read More →
GEAR: An introduction
Currently I’m working on my own “pen & paper” RPG setting and system. The two are advancing hand in hand and I thought I would post occasionally about the development of the game. I haven’t got a name yet (I suck at name things, just ask the players in my games) so I’m just referring to the game by the name “GEAR”... [Read more]
The Great American Tour 2010 – San Francisco
I’m back in the UK now, have been for a couple of day. Looks like I took more than a 1000 photographs over the entire holiday. I’ve already deleted about 300 as duplicates or just no good and I’ll do another pass through as I sort them in to albums for the various locations and events. Unfortunately while the circular polariser... [Read more]
The Great American Tour 2010 – Yellowstone
I’ve spent the last three days bouncing and jolting accross uneven snow covered roads at 35 miles per hour on a snowmobile, the sun and wind in my face (for most of it at least), looking at some of the most stunning scenery in the world. Yellowstone in winter definitlly ranks as one of the most beutiful things I’ve ever seen. When the skies... [Read more]
The Great American Tour 2010 – Las Vegas Culture
Had no real net access the last few days and my laptop is 100 miles away at the moment. Right now I’m at our hotel after a day of snowmobiling through yellowstone. I’ll save a post about that until I can upload some photos to go with it. But in short: WOW! This post instead is about the second day in Vegas. There is a pinball museum just... [Read more]
The Great American Tour 2010 – Nevada
So the flight out was a bit of a pain. Virgin advertise this big fancy economy plus class ticket with nice big seats, on demand entertainment systems and so on. What they don’t tell you is that the good stuff aint on all of the flights yet. I think there’s a complaint letter going in about that once we get back. First full day in Vegas... [Read more]
Getting ready
I’m getting ready to head off on holiday for a couple of weeks. Having to be careful how much entertainment I carry. I appear to have a phobia of boredom. Read More →
Warning by Jenny Joseph
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. My gran passed away last week and the funeral was this morning. Small affair just 5 of us. Played a CD of music she had me create a few years back for the occasion and then... [Read more]
The Edinburgh winter
We’re having an unseasonably cold and snowy winter this/last year. This is a quick video I took out front and back of my flat. Theres not much to see its mainly a test of iMovie and YouTube to see how easy it will be for me to upload any videos in the future (answer: easy). Read More →
Neutra Face
I think it was about half way through before I recognised the pop song they’re parodying. Via the allways fascinating Bioephemera. Read More →