The Ghost without a Shell

Started with a million, still writing...

Monday, 20 October 2014

An Englishman at Spiel...

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So it’s been quiet for a week over on the blog, the longest time it’s been so since I started things way back in January.  The simple reaso...
Monday, 13 October 2014

Essen tomorrow, expect less updates...

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And so tomorrow I'm heading for Essen and the biggest games fair in the world, while I'd love to say I'm going to be able to kee...
Sunday, 12 October 2014

Location, Location, Location...

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The flip side to adventuring is when you’re not under the ground grubbing around for coins, but out in the air, in the places where people ...
Saturday, 11 October 2014

Underground, Overground...

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It was some years ago that the question was posed, as the party trudged out of the dungeon loaded down with plunder, what happens to the du...
Thursday, 9 October 2014

A word on treasure in games...

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"What do you mean all that only equated to 126 gold pieces...?" So, having emptied out the years change jar and converted it ...
Tuesday, 7 October 2014

RPG Playtesting

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I’ve been talking to someone today with a view to setting up something to help budding RPG designers to playtest their games and get honest...

Day 280 - So Alien Isolation arrived today - Required 770000, Achieved 789720

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And I haven't even opened it yet... I haven't opened it for several reasons, the first of which is that I suspect that much in the...
Saturday, 4 October 2014

On why we need game balance more than John Wick thinks we do...

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Good Evening, my name is John and I run conventions, lots of them.  Over the last twenty years I’ve designed a few games, but the thing I’m...
Friday, 3 October 2014

If you're planning on writing a million words in a year, there's some things you should be aware of...

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And that's why there haven't been many updates forthcoming for the entire of it... The problem for the most part is that there...
Thursday, 2 October 2014

Because sometimes you've just got to make a game...

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Writers group tonight and things were a little down because there we all were talking about the various parts of writing and we were getting...

Adventures in Pogonotomy - Various Lush products...

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The best girl in the world (that’d be my wife) recently got me a number of shaving goodies to try out, figured it was about time to put...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Before X Wing, there was Star Warriors

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The success of X wing in recent times has shown how much people enjoy a good dogfight in space, but it wasn’t the first game to take on t...
Monday, 29 September 2014

A word on monsters and the monstrous...

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Because it's a worthwhile consideration to think about what makes a monster a monster, my own thoughts on the matter to come tomorrow wh...
Sunday, 28 September 2014

Story September - Lightning fiction tryout - A time to weep

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Templeton looked across the battlefield at Jasar atop a mound of the dead, head to the sky as the rain started to fall, washing the bodies c...
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