It’s finally here! I’m thrilled to announce that Hexingtide Playtest 4 is now available. It has been a long road since Playtest 3 dropped, and I’ll admit to battling major design block and burnout along the way. However, thanks to…
The Rattle and Rend Facebook Group recently crossed over 500 members. In the immortal words of Theodore “Ted” Logan: Woah. A Brief Update (aka What Update?) Over the past few months, I’ve run the occasional playtest game of Rattle and…
After far too long in the crypt, I’m thrilled to finally share the next major preview for Hexingtide’s upcoming Playtest 4: the Gameplay chapter. Written primarily for the game master (or in Hexingtide’s parlance, the Storyteller), here is an excerpt…
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? Join the Rattle and Rend Facebook Group for access to the fully-playable Alpha rules. I’ve been taken with a certain thought about my wargaming over the past year: particularly…