Fair Play
Posted by Jason on May 30th, 2006 — in Check this out dude, Conventions
We just got our button order from Busy Beaver and they look pretty great. Here’s what 100 buttons look like all at once, with a couple of size references. In this quantity they cost thirty cents each, but that drops precipitously as you scale up - I was nervous about the quality and my artwork, so I ordered the minimum. Shipping was free and the turnaround was ten days, including a holiday. You can’t see it but each button has our URL neatly printed on the edge - they look very nice, based on 300 dpi artwork I gave them. I’m very pleased! If you are reading this and will be at Gen Con, I’ve got a button for you.
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Posted by Jason on May 25th, 2006 — in Check this out dude
When our friend Oliof announced his intention to run The Shab-al-Hiri Roach at Nordcon, we graciously sent him some extra-greasy roaches to share with his players. In return, he graciously sent us some great photographs. Oliof’s report on the game is here.
Posted by Jason on May 23rd, 2006 — in Check this out dude, Design
I was grousing recently about having a ton of ideas that I will never bring to fruition, and the notion of an RPG graveyard raised its ugly head - a place to put odd bits, unfinished ideas, and designs that went nowhere but might still excite somebody. So I threw one up (the password is elephant). In the process, I looked through my own old files and found some funny stuff. Here are my notes from a session of DET66 I ran - it was a “world war II with supernatural” campaign with rotating GMs and an extra serving of crazy. Some of my favorite gaming experiences took place in DET66, actually. Anyway, the evil and mega awesome mechanomancer Herr Dr. Hohenleutner was hurt and trapped in an Irish amusement park for some reason, which gave me free reign to bring the creepy place to life.
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Posted by Jason on May 17th, 2006 — in Check this out dude
The Roach books and cards have arrived and everything is good to go. Our page at Indie Press Revolution is now up and active.
The last copy of the first edition is winging its way to the Celestial Empire and Ben Lehman as I write this.
I just sent some major drachmas to Luke Crane to secure a spot at the Gen Con Forge booth.
The Mad Irishman is chewing on Drowning and Falling layout between meth-fuelled burglary sprees. I want to write a Choose Your Own Adventure add-on for D&F called DWARFQUEST or something, and solicit challenges from people to include.
I borrowed four books on the Warsaw Uprising and have been slowly consuming three of them. The fourth is in Polish and consists primarily of the names and addresses of every Scout and Girl Guide who participated in the Grey Ranks. The bibliography for GR is going to be long.
I start a new improv class this Saturday. Reading Keith Johnstone’s Impro has flooded my brain with new ideas for roleplaying games. My design time has dried up lately.
I’ll be placing an order for more Roach and BPG ephemera tomorrow, which will be fun and exciting.
Posted by Jason on May 12th, 2006 — in Check this out dude
On BPG’s front page, I had the pleasure a moment ago of announcing both our nascent liaison with the sultry IPR and the sale of our hundredth copy of The Roach. Both of these statements are verifiably correct; however I have retained a copy of the first edition, unpaid for, in the name of Ben Lehman. It is an act of faith on my part that he will, in the fullness of time, claim his merchandise and supply BPG with the requisite filthy lucre. Until that day, the phrase “complete sell-out” waits querulously upon his honor as a gentleman.
