I'm Not Dead Yet!

I know you all saw that one coming...

So, yeah. Not dead. I have been quiet lately, so I apologize. I finished up some heavy lifting for Rogue Trader, took a week off, now I'm trying to get shit together again. This week I'm starting preliminary work on developing one of my ruleless settings for publication through Drive-Thru RPG. I just wanted to drop you guys a line and let you know I hadn't forgotten you. I'll try to do a really real post later this week. 

Tuesday Filler: GTFO

Thanks for all your hard work! By the way, get the hell out...

So, a year ago today, I got laid the fuck off from Palladium Books. With one little phone call on a Monday Morning, I lost everything I'd wanted. I'd lost a job, I'd lost Robotech, and I'd lost my rudder. After a bit of heavy drinking and some beating of breasts and gnashing of teeth, I said "Fuck this" and set about forging a new direction for myself as a freelancer in the contracting and increasingly niche Trad Games industry. It hasn't been easy. It hasn't always been fun. It's been slower than I'd like. I've made some progress, though. Shall we see what the passing of a year has brought us Gentle Readers?

Thursday Filler: En Francais!

So, check this out. A couple weeks ago a nice young Frenchman from Guide du Roliste Galactique, a Francophone RPG blog/site/thingy, contacted me out of the blue. Seems that he discovered me in the credits of a Rifts book I worked on, and wanted me to knock together a profile for him to post in his RPG Pros section. I'm big in Japan France, apparently. Here it is, all in French of course, none of which I can read because my high-school French teacher wasn't so much concerned with teaching us French as she was with teaching us all 874 verses of the Champs Elysees song.

Friday Filler: Sometimes a D20 is just a D20

"Ja, unt now tell me about your relationship with your first GM"

So, way, waaaaaay back in 2005 while my entire life felt like it was collapsing around my ears and I was an absolute emotional disaster, I manned up and called the mental health number on the back of my insurance card. The catalyst for the call was, of all things, an Iron Kingdoms game that I was running, or, well, failing to run because I had the attention span of a crack-addled hummingbird. Anyway, I was sick and tired of the way I was feeling, the way these feelings were affecting my marriage and my friendships, and just generally feeling like shit all the time. So fast forward to today, where I'm still in therapy with an excellent therapist who I credit with saving both my marriage and, well, my life. What does all this have to do with games and werks you ask? Read on...

Old School Filler

Here's a little something to warm your heart! Mario learns a fundamental and terrible truth about the Mushroom Kingdom, and pays dearly for that knowledge.


"bit and run" -- Mario's Ladder from Cory Godbey on Vimeo.

Courtesy of Topless Robot