Cumbersome

I have never been much for cruises - my parents like them, but I've never been on one, nor have I ever been particularly excited about t...

Rules writing is HARD! Rules writing is a pain, but it's super important. Players will not be able to play your game if they cannot r...

Last weekend I traveled to Los Angeles again, as I have done for the last decade or so, for OrcCon 2015. I find it interesting to think back...

Last weekend, 4 designers from California and 1 local joined me for Game Design Attack #3 , another great weekend of design talk and playtes...

I got Pony Express to the table Friday night at Game Design Attack #3 . I watched and ran the game, as 5 designers sat down to give it a try...

This weekend will mark the third installment of Game Design Attack -- a 3 day design meetup where 6-10 designers sequester themselves in...

I know some people in California who have banded together to form a superhero team... well, it's like a team of superheroes, if you remo...

Over the last few months, artist Eric J. Carter has been cranking on Tech Card illustrations for Eminent Domain: Exotica , and I'm lovin...

Last night at out local Gamesmiths meetup I managed to get Pony Express to the able for the 5th time, this time with 5 players. As yet I hav...

I've posted previously about full playtests #1 , #2, and #3 of The Pony Express , and how I'm using it for my " Gil Hov 4p cha...

Last October I got the opportunity to go to Essen again. I saw a lot of the new stuff coming out, heard some buzz on a few popular titles ( ...

Ok, after some thought and soliciting opinions on Twitter, here's how I might try an alternate game end trigger for Crusaders: Instead...

A couple of days ago I posted an idea I had to simplify the end game scoring for Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done. Basically, I had this convo...

One of the niggling things that I would like to clean up in Crusaders is the end game scoring. Currently it does what I want it to do, and I...

I suspect many people have heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) - a sort of challenge to get writers writing, with the goal of...

Pony Express - full playtest #2 After full playtest #1 (12/28), Dan, Steve, Dawn, and I played a full 4 player game on 12/29. I'd incor...

John, Steve, and I played a full 3p game of The Pony Express, and I'm happy to say that the game did work! A few items that I want to ...

After fiddling with the physical prototype components and showing the game off to my friend Dan Keltner (co-designer of Isle of Trains and ...