An Interview with Sharktoberfest Writer Steve Johnson, Conducted by Dale Ryan Just in time for October, Hex Games has released Sharktoberfest, written by Steve Johnson and illustrated by James and Lindsay Hornsby. I’d never really given much thought to shark movies before, but reading the book I was struck by how much time Steve has…
Robert McCabe is the creator and author of Spy Racers, the latest release from Hex Games. Spy Racers, as you may have guessed from the title, is a game of espionage and race car driving, set in the same stylish version of the ‘60s as McCabe’s earlier Sex, Lies and Ultraspies. Spy Racers is, in…
Sorry about missing a couple of weeks–other commitments, plague, pestilence, that kind of things. I’ll try not to let it happen again (much). I’m going to ease back into things with a couple of easy tables of random magical items that you can base your next story around. Conveniently enough, Hex produces two American Artifacts…
Here’s another Actual Play write-up from Woody at FAST. This one tells the tale of Colin’s HappilyEverAfter game at Archon 2010. (As told by Ms. Muffet) It was just another day in HappilyEverAfter, the city that puts the “sin” in fascination. You could survive if you knew how to play the game; the penalty for…
Just about every social group includes one person who catches hell from the other members. The dupe is the guy who gets ridiculed, the guy who gets forced to do the work nobody else wants to do, and the guy that occasionally gets beaten up or peed on. In some cases, the dupe is so…
As the old saying goes, “birds of a feather flock together,” so it’s not surprising that most members of a fraternity usually have very similar demographics. Some fraternities are primarily jocks, some fraternities tend to recruit members of a particular race, and some fraternities are made up entirely of rednecks who apparently missed the…
The ringleader is the fraternity brother that everyone else looks to for direction and leadership, despite the fact that he rarely holds any official position of authority in the frat. Whether the members are deciding who to accept as pledges or what the theme of Friday’s party will be, the ringleader often has considerable…
The big man on campus (BMOC) is a student who is known and liked (or at least envied) by just about everyone on campus, including members of the faculty and staff. The BMOC’s popularity may be due to his athletic skill, good looks, or his position in an important organization or clique. Some BMOC’s even…
In order to avoid double-secret academic probation, every fraternity has to maintain a minimum grade point average. In order to keep the frat’s GPA up to that minimum without cutting into time that could be spent getting wasted, some frats make sure there are at least a few nerds in every pledge class. In…
The jock is usually portrayed as a big, dumb, walking pile of testosterone. Although some jocks are capable of higher thought, these often disguise whatever mental abilities they have with over-the-top machismo and copious application of alcohol. The jock’s status on campus is directly related to his athletic ability, with star athletes receiving special…
