Recently on the YouTube channel that I operate myself and games designer Mike Hutchinson had a conversation about dice pools, which you...

Creating products that are environmentally sound is not only good sense for the planet, its good business sense. For two reasons, one,...

This blog, even more than most of what I write, owes its existence to Jamey Stegmaier’s blog on the subject. In fact, the main part of...

I’m not generally a fan of list articles, and even less of ones about what games are “fact” more influential than others. Certainly, if...

I recently had a playtest with Mike Hutchinson (Gaslands, A Billion Suns, Perilous Tales) of a game that he was planning to release (and...

About six to eight months ago Mike Hutchinson (designer of Gaslands) showed me an idea that he had, a solo skirmish wargame called...

Recently I’ve been working on a project with a fairly prominent piece of cardboard AI in it and I was thinking about writing this blog,...

Hopefully the subject of this blog should be on free release by now, if it isn’t it soon will be. Some time ago a fairly casual comment...

Skirmish games have what I call generic rules. I hate generic rules, I hate writing generic rules. I’ve written so many versions of line...

I’ve vaguely suggested in the past how get started on the path to writing skirmish games, but it occurred to me that while I’ve laid out...