By Brent on 21 November 2009
About a year ago, I published two role-playing PDFs, an adventure (War in the Deep) and a sandbox setting (The City of Talon). I posted my earnings-to-date six months ago. Here’s what I’ve earned since then: Sales For The Past Six Months (June-November 2009) Product Number of Sales Gross Net War in the Deep 4 $20.00 $13.00 The City of Talon 3 $15.00 $9.75 TOTAL 7 $35.00 $21.75 Sales For The Past Year (November 2008-November […]
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By Brent on 20 November 2009
What makes Google Wave work for role-playing games? I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a few weeks now, primarily with role-playing Waves. These are Waves in which people pretend to be characters in a story. There are tons of ways to role-play; sitting around a table, over live text chat, or on a […]
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By Brent on 27 August 2009
This is a tough one to explain. A few days ago, the Chatty DM tweeted about the need for a revival of Car Wars. If you’re not familiar with it, Car Wars is a tabletop car duelling game from the 1980’s, in which you drive a gun-laden car around a post-apocalyptic arena or road, blowing […]
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By Brent on 20 August 2009
So, a while ago, I noticed a Twitter RPG design competition. You had to pitch and describe a tabletop RPG system in 140 characters or less. A fun little challenge. I’d just been reading the Mouse Guard RPG system, where the main villains are tricky weasels, and they struck me as interesting characters. So, an […]
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By Brent on 17 August 2009
(Note: I haven’t forgotten about my previous plan to post about my finances and books! I’m just having trouble collecting the data. Should have something up here in a day or two. Meanwhile….) While I was at GenCon, I went to a panel on higher-level adventure design. I noticed a disturbing trend: The DMs asking […]
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By Brent on 12 August 2009
Role-playing games exist in a problematic black hole. Existing role-players play RPGs, but the hobby isn’t attracting a lot of new players (though D&D 4th Edition appears to be changing that somewhat). So how to attract new players to the hobby? Well, last Sunday, I had the chance to run a game of Dread, and it was a revelatory experience. It might be the answer, or at least point the way towards the answer. Dread […]
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By Brent on 10 May 2009
About six months ago, I started publishing tabletop RPG PDFs under the name Brent P. Newhall’s Musaeum of Fantastic Wonders, starting with the short adventure War in the Deep in November 2008 and continuing with the sandbox setting The City of Talon in March 2009. I publish through DriveThruRPG, which takes a percentage of each PDF sale. The PDFs themselves are unrestricted. I’ve always been a bit frustrated at the lack of real numbers about […]
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By Brent on 5 May 2009
We can have up to 10 players at my tabletop gaming group. That’s a lot of people to manage; most groups max out at 5 or so. While I’m trying to get better at splitting the group up with another GM, I’ve had times where I’ve had to run a game wtih 10 players. A […]
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By Brent on 27 April 2009
A few weeks ago, my role-playing group tried to add a virtual player. Wait. Back up. One of our regular players went off to college. Worse, she’s one of the best role-players in the group. I pined for her. For those of you unfamiliar with tabletop role-playing: A bunch of friends sit around a table. One of them lays out a situation, while the others pretend to be people in that situation, and narrate their reactions to the situation. So, […]
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By Brent on 21 April 2009
In the real world, The City of Talon is a role-playing setting. It’s a 107-page PDF that describes a fantasy world, including physical locations within the city, well-known residents, the history of the city, etc. It can be used in pretty much any pseudo-medieval fantasy RPG, and is also a great inspiration for authors; Talon […]
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