This world is sour. And here, sourer still – a rotten knot of rust and ruin, boiling beneath the real. A Hollow. Hollows is our upcoming full-length all-singing-all-dancing game which features: If you’ve enjoyed Chris and Grant’s work on Spire and Heart (or indeed one of the dozens of other titles to their names) then […]
Maz said: “Grant, you should write more dev blogs. And not one every seven weeks when you remember; regular ones.” Well – seven weeks on, here’s a dev blog, because I remembered. CORRUPTION I finished Corruption last week. We aren’t doing XP in a normal fashion, because that would be too straightforward, and instead we […]
PAY ATTENTION. Can you feel it? A wretched knot of rust and ruin. A creeping cancer beneath the skin of the real. A wound in the world. A HOLLOW. The Isles – your home, the haggard heart of a lost empire – is beset by them. Sickness, murder, madness and poverty wash across the land in […]
We announced EAT THE REICH earlier this month to thunderous acclaim: but what is it? Details below: THE GAME EAT THE REICH is a pun that got way, way out of hand. I’ve been experimenting with the concept for about a year now after realising that “REICH” and “RICH” are very similar words and going […]
Header image by Anton Novoselov on Flickr 1 – THE CONCRETE COURT. Who are in charge; who rule the high-rises, whose eyes are television, whose hair is a thousand flowing telephone wires, whose breath is…
Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. On this week’s show: – A surprisingly long chat about old crisps, right off the bat – Dwarfsongs – Dice training, and why it shouldn’t –…
Header image by Bill Smith on Flickr D66 1 Arguing about…. The best way to cook adventurers that you’ve caught, as a lone halfling sits marinating in olive oil and herbs Which orc god is…
Header image by BenGrantham on Flickr 1 – LUCK. It absorbs good luck from people and spends it to stay alive, because the gods cursed vampires many years ago and this is the only way…
credit: Hammermancer image by Iguanamouth 1 They worship seagulls, after being caught at sea on a particularly treacherous voyage, and view them as pecky angels. The worship is not at all mutual and many of…
Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. ON THIS WEEK’S EPISODE: – Timed games? – Lunchtime roleplaying? – James Bond? – Beer and/or pretzels? – New players? And many more. Also we’re very…
Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. Chris and Grant switch on their microphones to record the design process behind their new one-page game TRASHKIN. If you want to get an insight into…
There’s no limit on what you can build guns into, and we should know, because we’re humans: and humans are the best at putting guns into things where guns shouldn’t be. To that end, here’s…
HEY SO our game, Honey Heist – an RPG in which you play a criminal bear with two stats, CRIMINAL and BEAR – is being played on Critical Role this week, which we are assured…
In this week’s episode: Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. – RPG burnout – How to defend yourself from nightmare flying heads – Player pet hates (but not how to deal with…
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