Mark Hamilton is a game designer living in Canberra, Australia. He's currently working on Rasania Chronicles, a neo-apocalyptic sci-fi RPG, utilizing the Immersion RPG system. This is his first guest blog post. One of the biggest hurdles all budding writers face I feel is the ability to...
So you've read Infected! and maybe you've played the scenario in the back. But now what? Your friends are coming over and they expect an awesome game - you need some ideas, goddammit! Drum roll please...
If you're creating an RPG or board game, chances are you want to put it on Kickstarter. But to do so you'll need to show people what your game is about, and one of the key ways to do so is to create a Quick...
There was a time when I would have combats in a story just because I liked combats. The game actually revolved around them. The combats seemed to be the story. We would calculate bonuses very carefully, feats and abilities, the powers of swords, exact actions in every...
Combat can be awesome, or it can simply be one grind after another. But how do you keep each combat from blurring into the next? Even more so, how do you make it so that your players don’t just attack every obstacle and kill everyone...