More Roaming To And From Rome
Earlier in December, I talked about a site that's an atlas of all roads in the Roman Empire. As I'm wont to do, I invited folks to chat on the forums about it. And I was not disappointed! Forum posters dcarson and thorr-kan brought to my attention ORBIS . ....
Crowdfunding Progress
Crowdfunding continues to go well! The Fighting Fantasy project for books 6-10 has concluded, breaking a quarter-million dollars! To be precise, $278,223 and 3,977 backers. The Toon Second Edition project has another week to go. Currently, it has $109,927 and 2,383 backers. Last night I sent the new Toon character...
Free Webinar For Zine Creators
Kickstarter is, as all know, a friend of zines. Our own TFT zine, Hexagram, was launched through their continuing ZineQuest project. They are holding a webinar for zine creators next week (Tuesday, January 13 – 1pm EST). One of the speakers will be Philip J. Reed, noted SJ Games alumnus...
Come Sit At The Silly Table Toon Second Edition Is On BackerKit!
Hilarious and chaotic antics can be found on every page of the new edition of Toon: The Cartoon Roleplaying Game, open for pledging on BackerKit. If you've ever wanted to enter the world of classic Saturday morning cartoons to build characters and adventures full of absolute absurdity, this might just...
Setting A Tone
When I sit down to make plans for an upcoming fantasy RPG campaign, I like to listen to music filled with the same themes. The Sword is the first band I noticed that really leaned into fantasy themes. Their first album, Age of Winters, released nearly 20 years ago, and...
Trivia Question: Mu/Nu?
Last year I posted a couple of questions derived from our master database: What item are we selling that's the first alphabetically (answer here), and what item(s) are we selling last alphabetically (answers here). I was poking at the database again, and – as I type this – we have...
Exercises For Waiting: Hands
When I recently had to be somewhere where I wasn't allowed to have a phone or book, I remembered Steven's post about what to do when you're not doing anything at the game table. It got me thinking about what I could do that was relatively subtle yet could still...
Less Than 10 Months Until National Wolf Awareness Week!
If you're looking for a fun motivation for the supervillain in your life, you might find interesting inspiration from the National Day Calendar website, listing all those odd declarations for days, weeks, and months you hear about on the news ever so often. So if (for example) you have a...