For the last several years, a number of Hex contributors have been participating in Zine Month and ZineQuest. In addition to QAGS supplements about fantasy taverns and magical Elvises, we’ve released supplements for Dungeon Crawl Classics, Old School Essentials, and Troika. This year is no exception and we’ve got three zines competing for your shekels on Kickstarter this month. Collect them all!
I got a few more pieces of art work in recently, both of which are related to the Fate’s Hand card game, rules for which are included in the book. First off, Leighton Connor, who also drew the minotaur for the banner/cover, sent me his interpretation of one of the Fate’s Hand cards, The Tower….
I’ve gotten bad at reading actual books (regardless of format), so in 2018 I re-started an old livejournal tradition of keeping a running list of the books that I’d read that year. My thinking was that knowing the actual number of books I’d read might convince me to read a real book instead of clicking…
Sorry that I’ve sucked about posting lately. It’s been what we’ll call a “rebuilding” few months. I do have some news, but first the most important action item: Josh and Leighton have begun the Kickstarter for the Dungeon Crawl Classics edition of Leopard Women of Venus! The new version will feature art by Josh and…
I’m going to do two questions today and then finish up the last two on Monday. 28. Favorite Game You No Longer Play I’m going to assume that “game” here refers to specific game worlds rather than systems or genres, since the main differences between Deadlands and the weird west games I run using QAGS…
15. Longest campaign played The longest game I’ve ever played was (QAGS co-founder) Leighton Connor’s “Ficton” super-hero game (not to be confused with The Hex Ficton), which I’ve mentioned here before. It think it lasted around six years, but I’m not sure if it would technically be considered a single campaign; the climax was rooted…
I just found out about the #RPGaDay2015 meme that’s going around. Since I’m coming in halfway through (and since a lot of my answers to the early questions are very short), I’m going do the first 14 of them today, start doing the “A Day” part tomorrow with #15 and post a new one every…
Last week, I set out to answer a question we get periodically, “when are you guys releasing more Qerth books?” but kind of got sidetracked explaining what happened with Qerth (and our company, and the game industry) between the time we started writing it in 1997 or 1998 and the book’s eventual release in 2006….
Josh just posted a list on his Bernie the Flumph blog called “Twenty Things That May or May Not Be True About Orcs.” You should go read it. It’s entertaining and educational. It’s also a concept that begs to be stolen—I mean, expanded upon to include other monsters, which is exactly what I’m going to…
An Interview with GILGAMESH! Writer Leighton Connor, Conducted by Stacy Forsythe The world’s oldest epic, The Epic of Gilgamesh, was written in its standard version sometime between 1300 and 1000 BC. Much more recently, in 2012, Leighton Connor adapted the epic into the RPG adventure GILGAMESH! Now, two years later, Leighton has followed that up…
