Tonight, I’m focused on a crucial, and often underrated, part of the game design process: the pregenerated character. For a game built on a brand-new ruleset, pregens are the fast track to the fun. When you hand a player a…
Looking for something new to play this weekend? Hexingtide is a spooky, rules-lite RPG where players take on the role of monsters inspired by folkore, literature, and pop culture. This Saturday, you can try it with the game’s designer at Rock Hill…
The monsters are stirring… and so is the next chapter of Hexingtide. I’m excited to release Hexingtide’s Playtest 4 Extended Preview: a meaty snapshot of what’s coming in the full Playtest 4 release later this summer. It includes major system…
Hexingtide is my unfinished TTRPG of Minimalist Monstrous Roleplaying – a love letter to the monsters of folklore, comics, and classic pop culture. Inspired by (in no order): Mike Mignola’s Hellboy & the wider Mignolaverse, Dan Brereton’s Nocturnals, Eric Powell’s…
Lots of work has been going in behind the scenes drafting rules, editing, and playtesting towards a full alpha release for my game of rules-lite, miniatures-agnostic, 10mm scale fantasy skirmishes: Rattle and Rend. And now I’m excited – and no…
New 10mm warband created for my in-progress skirmish project Rattle and Rend. Mostly 40x40mm bases. Going for a quick-and-dirty ghostly effect for these guys like Age of Sigmar Nighthaunt and MESBG Army of the Dead. + 𝔊𝔯𝔢𝔶-𝔊𝔯𝔞𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔊𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔱 + 2pts…
In summary: is a rules-light 10mm skirmish game of interest? Sign up to playtest! I’ll share Alpha rules and create a Facebook group or Discord server for the game soon. I’ve been taken with a certain thought about my…
While work and playtesting (and the brain slog of layouts, art, and writing) for the next playtest of Hexingtide, continues, I was recently struck by a very dumb idea. The first session in July for my twice-a-month home group falls…
Work continued on the late 1500s big battles project this weekend. Slowly, but surely, but… slowly. Two bases of stradioti light horse and a single, small base of shot. Frustratingly still having a – for lack of a better work…
Emulating the battles of the pike and shot era has been something of a white whale. I’ve quickly gotten intimidated by – or otherwise disinterested in – the sheer scale of such an undertaking each time I’ve embarked on the…