Diary of a Failed Game Designer

This started as a few divergent G+ conversations. I started thinking about it... and now this post is here. If you are not into the  rambling personal type posts I toss here every now and again, this will not be the post for you. There is a rule in my home. Self imposed but I can assume my wife appreciates it.  The rule is "If something comes down, something goes up."   It's my RPG's in the  attic rule. It  means if I bring a book down I have to bring at least one up so that my  stuff doesn't start to take over the living room. A few days ago, I went up  to the attic to  bring down the 2nd ed Mysteria box set. I wanted to read how they  dealt with the flying ships which were such a big  part of the setting.  So  down it came and up went the following titles: 2 Fate books. (Core, and Worlds,) The  savage worlds core rules, The big dungeon crawl classics book, and Fate of the Norns. I get mysteria down, and  leaf throug...

Explanation: Yes, this is a dead blog and i'm not writing new material, but occasionally I will find something on my hard drive I think is worth cleaning up and throwing on here. In fact I wrote this months ago and never finished it. I think I stopped because I found better options. I don't remember. This material is presented unfinished, unbalanced,and untested. I'm hoping it may give someone a tingle of inspiration.  Disclaimer: because the internet is full of martial arts experts: This work is not meant as an accurate representation or simulation of the  Filipino martial art Panantukan /Suntukan which is sometimes called "Dirty Boxing". I did some reading about them, but I don't know enough about them to claim any level of expertise. Don't correct my usage of the  term "dirty boxing" in the comments I just thought the term sounded better than "Huggy Fighty" Again it's a dead blog..no one is reading the comments anyway. For the r...

Aleria Map Used in Play.

Underground temple. 

Everything has a course For me this Blog has run it's course. It's time to close the door. I have a few thoughts about why  now is the right time to shutter this blog but to write a 5000 word eulogy about why I'm not going to blog anymore seems a bit strange. It's not important anyway. Not blogging doesn't equal not  playing, talking about, or writing games. Thanks you to everyone who read, commented on, or shared the things I posted over the past 4 and a half years. Of course special thanks to the two actual friends I have gained from the blogging experience. Charles Akins and Jens D. They have been constantly supportive of this blog. I appreciate that. I would gladly share a drink with either of them given the opportunity. I have to also thank Neal Tanner who has done more for my games than I have, and  honestly believes my designs are better than I think they are. We will continue to work together to finish projects and put material on the website and to distribu...