Hi everyone! Era: Marscape is coming in January, so naturally Leo and I are continuing our extremely serious and highly professional research by diving straight back into Doom Eternal today!
Hi everyone! I am doing a livestream today to celebrate the upcoming release of Era: Marscape at the start of January. The game is very Doom-inspired, so naturally the best
Hi everyone! I am often asked how I make sure I finish the projects I start. This is one of the reasons I wrote How to Be Creative (and more
Hi everyone! Today I want to talk about fulfilment, which I seldom talk about… and nor do many of the industry contacts I speak with. Whenever I do speak with
Hi everyone! Stretch goals are a funny thing in crowdfunding. I always get the balance wrong. I get excited about any project I bring to Kickstarter, and my stretch goals
At a recent convention, I ran a Creator Clinic to help people improve their games and storytelling. One thing I had to emphasise several times is rules are not an
Hi everyone! Era: Crueltide was an idea I came up with last Christmas. Actually, it was already published last year in a very minimal way via The Era Zone Issue
Hi everyone! The fated day is finally here! Era: Crueltide is now available on Kickstarter. For the craziest, most pun-filled game I’ve produced to date which also offers a deep
Hi everyone! Today I’m going to talk to you about printing. I think this is something a lot of people don’t understand very well, especially when it comes to the
Hi everyone! Today I’m going to talk about indexing! I know, boring, right? It’s certainly something that many creators don’t think is terribly important, judging by the indie roleplaying games
Hi everyone! Today, I am preparing for my next big roleplaying game convention. That made me think I would share some tips with you about how I prepare. At that
Ed and his team really did something special with this one. I thought the first Time Travel Campaign was pretty gruelling, but this time the stakes feel even higher. Many
Sometimes survival of the species means changing everything about the world you were born into.The Consortium is in an uncontrollable crisis and humanity is almost getting destroyed. Only you can
General James L. Constantin says, “In the first month, we had confidence born of ignorance. We thought we could fight for life, but mankind has always won. We were sorely
Hi everyone! Hi everyone. Today I want to talk about one of the most important moments in a tabletop role-playing game: the moment you enter combat. You’ve realised the enemy
We watch them fall.Families, towns, entire cities disappear under the shadow of the Infection. From the safety of the last outpost, we record every struggle, every choice that costs a
Hi everyone! Today, I thought I’d talk about Era: Marscape, which is a game I came up with some time ago. It was prompted by a conversation with another enthusiastic
The world you knew is gone.What remains is a battlefield where titans rule. Steel cities crumble, oceans rise, and the ground itself shakes with every step you take. Since you
Set in a world where vampires, werewolves, hunters, and other supernatural forces fight for power in the shadows, Era: Bloodlines is the latest tabletop RPG built to use the flexible
Hi everyone! Ed, here! Today we take a brand new step in the world of Era: Survival: The 8th Anniversary Definitive Edition is on Kickstarter now. [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-survival-8th-anniversary?ref=btnehg] So join us
You don’t notice anything at first. Then little things start to feel wrong. The streetlight outside your window flickers at the exact same time every night. The cameras in the
Oh, you made it in? Congratulations, intern. Seriously. That first email feels good, right? Let me guess. They told you there’s one permanent spot. That all you have to do
I am a shark. A ninja. A walking biological experiment with a taste for adrenaline and, well, humans. When the alien dieselpunk robots landed, they didn’t ask questions. They just
Hi everyone! I’ve recently been running a couple of workshops at MCM Comic Con, attempting to create Tabletop RPGs in an hour. These have been generally successful and tend to
Hi everyone! I’ve been doing panels at major conventions here in the UK for almost 15 years now and I thought it might be a good time to give some
Hi everyone. I reached a point in game creation some years ago now where I still felt that tabletop roleplaying games are fantastic – I love them, I play them
Hi everyone! It’s been a long time since I wrote about a convention in detail on this blog. That’s okay; to be honest, I think these can get a bit
Hi everyone! I’ve been working hard for the last week at the day job, but still doing my best to find the time to look at various other things that
Hi everyone! To tell you where Adapt came from, I have to take you back several years, before COVID-19, to a world that was a little different. At the time,
“Keep your Social Media active!” say all the marketing people. “Keep up your marketing and reaching out to the world.” I’m pretty sure they are right, but, as I said,
