Idea to Thing 3: A Thing I’m Working On
Last time I talked about that step of deciding whether you’ve got a viable project…
Wiki Articles Are Wizards Play-Thru Review
I backed Ben Meadows’ Wiki Articles Are Wizards [Citation Needed] during this year’s zine quest because I like wizards and I like game-like systems for generating RPG stuff (my article about using Tarot cards and IMDB to generate campaign history is probably around here somewhere). The PDF was delivered earlier this week, so I gave it…
Let’s Talk About AI, Part 2
Last time I talked about some common reasons people give for pretending that we can keep AI from becoming a thing. Most of those involved legal or technical issues and tend to be the talking points of people who actually do creative work and are scared, but not scared enough to actually do research. I…
Let’s Talk About AI
Generative AI has become a go-to scare topic for slow news days in recent years, and it’s a frequent topic of internet yelling, usually by people with a very limited grasp of how the technology actually works. I’m not going to claim that I’m expert on the topic, but since I’ve actually used AI, I…
Movie Review: Smokey & The Bandit
Last night when I pulled up Netflix, Smokey & The Bandit was a few rows down on the main screen. I’m pretty sure I’ve watched the movie since I originally saw it as a kid, but it’s been a long time and it’s a classic, so I decided to give it a rewatch. I was…
Callings & Trades
After the initial release of QAGS, it didn’t take us very long to realize that the wonky system wasn’t really geared for easy modification. For QAGS 3E, I’m trying to correct that mistake because, at least for me, the level of rules complexity I want varies from one game to another. Maybe it’s because I…
QAGS 3rd Edition Character Cheat Sheet
Hey everyone. The My Name Is Hood zine is now active on Kickstarter. Since I’m using QAGS 3E for the game, I put together a cheat sheet that explains the character stats. The sheet gives you most of the basics you need to figure out how the system works, but there are a few things…
Zine Month Is Coming!
It’s Zine Month again, and as usual some Hex Games creators have projects launching soon on Kickstarter. Here’s what we’ve got this year: Beowulf Vs. Grendel for Million-Colored Sun (Leighton Connor) The greatest epic in English literature comes to life! For 12 years Grendel, that unhallowed wight, wrathful and reckless, has rained ceaseless slaughter onto…
New City of Ten Thousand Daggers Map is Live
I’ve finished the new City of Ten Thousand Daggers map and uploaded it to the World Anvil page. I’ve also added some interactivity. Click the white box in the upper right corner to toggle markers and layers off and on. Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
My First M-Force Mission
I needed something for the “Prose” tab, so I edited a chapter from my NaNoWriMo M-Force novel into a short story, The Dark Lord Vigoda. Read at World Anvil Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
Rex Kinkaid
For today’s Worldember article, I posted a character from the Haunted Hollywood/Ampersand & Ampersand setting that I never got around to doing much with (but still have lots of ideas for). Meet Rex Kinkaid, ghost cop. Read at World Anvil Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
