After I finished my Kickstarter for Infected RPG back in 2015, I had big plans for creating lots more good RPG content. And then I ended up starting a family, moving cities, and buying a shop! It's been quite an adventure. I put my RPG-design plans...
This is a repost from my latest Kickstarter Update. Well, it’s done! That’s right. The Kickstarter for Infected! is officially over! If you have not received any part of your pledge yet, please email me at oliver@immersion-rpg.com and I will sort it out for you straight away. There...
I've started running a game shop (of all things) in Canberra, and in my first week in the shop I met a very interesting fellow called Mark, who found out that I'd created Infected! (it's plastered all over the walls), and mentioned in passing that he had...
A few backers recently asked me for some more information on our upcoming settings. We've already introduced God Forge, but here's the intro to Myths of Khoralla. This is an epic fantasy setting. Gods, demons, dragons, flying cities, immense battles, heroes cutting through their foes...
So I've been tinkering, again! One of my good mates wanted to try out rolling up a character for Infected, to see how it went. At first we tried rolling 1d10 for each stat, but after he got an extremely persuasive drooling idiot, we decided that was just...
I got a package a couple of days ago, which I am very excited about! It's the books! Well, an advance copy of them. I am assured that the last of them will be still hot off the press by the end of next week. I am...
I recently started reading a very interesting book called Secrets of Power Negotiators. Actually, at first the title put me off, as I'm not so all that interested in being a "power seller" or "power negotiator," and it seemed just too...
Hi all, This marks a momentous occasion. After months of building a crowd, creating a Kickstarter, writing, editing, art-directing, sweating (a little bit of bleeding too), our first release Infected! is officially finished! Actually, quite a lot of this was finalised while I was on holiday in Japan and...
I've been working with a variety of freelancers for some time in the creation of Infected, and in that time I have learnt a few things from the client perspective that I think could be of real benefit to any freelancers out there who are interested in...
Some of you may recall that I ran a competition for Infected! when the Kickstarter was on. There were quite a number of good quality entries, and it was rather difficult to judge because of that very point (learnt some lessons there, I can tell...
I've had an intense last couple of months. Churning through well over 100 pages of the manuscript (250 is the target size), I've also hammered through the rules to make sure they're the best, simplest and most streamlined they can be. And it's been an...
We're making good headway with Infected! After a few weeks of stop-start revision, I've launched fully into the fourth draft of the book (it's already had 3), and am now essentially finished a draft version of Chapter 3. There's still a fair way to go,...
Well it took me a lot longer than I expected, but I have finally come up with a winner for the Infected! competition. In case you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, I posted up a competition during the Kickstarter for Infected Zombie RPG, saying that anyone could make an entry...
Well, this is it...
A couple of days ago I got the opportunity to play a one-shot game of Infected! with Nick-Nack, a YouTube Vlogger, and two backers of the project on Kickstarter (Richard and Tom). It was a lot of fun! Quite hilarious at times, and also dramatic, terrifying and intense. But I...
For inspiration on Infected RPG, I turned to Stuart Holbrook, one of my best mates and a key contributor to the Immersion RPG game design! Not only that, but he's an incredible writer, with a debut novel on its way. This short story is a...
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It's official people, Infected! Zombie RPG is now live on Kickstarter. Wow, what a ride it's been so far. I planned on doing "a few minor touches" last night, and then realised that there were some major touches still needing doing...
First RPG from Immersion Studios launching on Kickstarter on August 16. Bestselling author Oliver R. Shead makes his Tabletop RPG debut with a new take on the classic zombie apocalypse theme. The outbreak is over. The Infected are all-but exterminated. Now, finally, humanity has the chance...
I have become a hermit. Until my Kickstarter launches, it seems I am to have no social life, or virtually anything that resembles anything other than RPGs and crowdfunding. It’s for the best. I know plenty of talented people who have told me that they’re going...
When you’re developing a Game or Fictional setting, there are some points to make sure you’ve got right – and one of those is water. I never realized quite how much water people actually need and use. But a burst pipe at home soon brought...
Haters gonna hate. It's not exactly great English, but that phrase has been strangely comforting on occasion for me over the past couple of years as I developed Infected Zombie RPG. As an Indie game designer, you have to get yourself out there into the public...
Okay, so I've gone and really done it this time. With a bit of feedback from some valued playtesters and readers (thanks guys!) I decided to add some more content to the Infected Zombie RPG Sampler book. It was a fair bit of effort, let me...
Want to wrap text around an image in InDesign? This tutorial can give you a few tips that can save you hassle and frustration when designing RPG books. I'm working here on the manuscript for the "Infected" Zombie RPG that I'm close to releasing onto...
I’ve been looking back over my progress with Immersion RPG and its settings over the past 5 years, and whilst at first my reaction was, “What the hell was I doing for these 5 years?!” on second glance I realise just how much I’ve learnt....
It's been a while since I've updated anything here about the progress of Infected RPG, though no doubt if you're on our Social Media pages you'll have seen a ton of updates! In short, things are going very well with the game, and we have...
We've been looking for some inspiration for Infected! from the Real World - and we've found some amazing place! These areas look like a zombie apocalypse has torn through them...
It's been a while since my last post, and it's time to remedy that with interest! We've been absolutely flat out working on our first title release, Infected RPG, a brutally realistic vision of an Infected apocalypse. Harsh, unrelenting and absolutely terrifying. This is not so much a...
Well it was Friday the 13th yesterday, AND a Full Moon! So what were we working on? You guessed it: Werewolves.Throw out your biases and misconceptions! These are not your average furry monsters. In fact, you can even play as a werewolf. Yup. See, in Myths of Khoralla Werewolves...
I've been playing role-playing games for over 15 years and have had the good fortune to experience a multitude of settings and systems, each one with a unique (or in some cases, a morbidly generic) set of rules, characters and monsters to vanquish. I have...
Immersion RPG - From the heart of Michael Hodgson Why Is Immersion RPG Awesome? I've played quite a few role playing game systems, and found some of them quite hard to work with; too much in the rules department, and not enough in the anything else department....
The Origins of Immersion RPG I spent the formative years of my zitty teens crammed into small, dank, poorly lit man caves. (read: boy caves because our balls had still to drop and voices to deepen) throwing our lives away to the heroic battle that every...