It’s no Radio Lightning, but Polish Radio’s External Service interviewed me this morning about Grey Ranks. And I found out we’ve been added to the bibliography page at a really good Warsaw Rising site. We sent the Warsaw Rising Museum (which Frederik Jensen just visited - he says it’s excellent) a copy and they are looking it over, which I’m pretty excited about. I’m hoping for a laundry list of errors and a lot of enthusiasm, but we’ll see!
I just found out that Grey Ranks has been short-listed for the Diana Jones Award.
We’ve been getting a ton of email from people in Poland in the last few days, and here’s why. Piotrek Czarnieki, a reporter for Gazeta Krakowska, has been picking my brain about Grey Ranks, American roleplaying, and related topics for a while. It’s been a fun conversation. One exciting development is that he talked up Grey Ranks to the Uprising Museum staff, and they want a copy for their collection. I can’t wait to find out what Piotr wrote, as I understand about one word in seven.
Update: We’ve had twice as many downloads of our free sample .pdf in the last week as we had in the previous year.
Frederik Jensen’s nascent imprint, Thoughtful Games, now has an English site. Montsegur 1244 is one of my favorite new games and #1 for takeoff once the Durham Three’s 4e ardor cools a bit. I’m super jealous of the west coast rascals who got a chance to play the fresh translation. We will burn harder.
Luke Crane and I chat about art and game design for his audio column at See Page XX. It wasn’t actually an ambush; I knew what I was getting into. It is telling that questions about what constitutes art are difficult to answer. In retrospect, I think I’d revise my reply after thinking about what separates “fine art” and “craft” a bit - a beautifully turned chair leg can be functional art, so a game can as well.