Month: November 2007
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12 to Midnight Launches Midnight Charity Project
Read More: 12 to Midnight Launches Midnight Charity ProjectPINEBOX, Texas — RPG publisher 12 to Midnight is launching a monthlong charity initiative called the Midnight Charity Project. This year the initiative, which runs from midnight December 1 to midnight December 31, will raise money for the Autism Research Institute. 12 to Midnight is offering several ways for gamers to participate. First, they can…
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Steamworks Designer’s Journal: Intro and Goals
Read More: Steamworks Designer’s Journal: Intro and GoalsHowdy. This is the first of a series on the design of SteamWorks. I’m hoping to provide some idea as to the nature of the material found in the book, as well as some insight into the various design decisions that were made along the way. I’ve been working on the book that is now…
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ETU Designer’s Journal: Research Adventures
Read More: ETU Designer’s Journal: Research AdventuresIt’s Ed here. Let’s switch back to the Adventure Generator for ETU. I’ve already discussed the Party generator. Today’s remarks cover the Research generator. As we have mentioned before, ETU includes a new attribute called Study. This is a cumulative bonus or penalty for the semester exams (finals). If you don’t pass your finals, you…
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ETU Designer’s Journal: Character Creation “Fixesâ€
Read More: ETU Designer’s Journal: Character Creation “Fixesâ€Two weeks ago I wrote about some of the experiences that influenced our thinking as we started on this project. In particular, some of our d20 System friends seemed to have discovered the secret to creating fighting powerhouses. In particular, taking the edges Luck and Quick at character creation seemed to be a winning combination.…
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ETU Designer Journal: Let’s Party
Read More: ETU Designer Journal: Let’s PartyWe had several meetings to flesh out our ideas. During that time we debated how to make the setting fresh to gamers, but familiar enough that everyone would be comfortable playing it. By this time I had become a die hard Savage World’s fan and we decided early on to focus on writing the campaign…
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The Making of East Texas University
Ed: I think it was sometime in 2008 at Origins that we were invited by Shane Hensley to sit in on a What’s Up with Pinnacle Panel. We spoke about our idea for East Texas University, where you have to go to school, study, do research, and fight evil to save the world. Shane liked…
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The “Last” Hurrah
By 2007, we were doing great things. We published The Beast Within by Mike DeSanto and Jerry Blakemore wrote Skinwalker. The Beast Within starts with a strange auto accident that leads to a murder investigation. This adventure featured our Fear Effects rules. When we were playtesting this one, Preston was acting as our Game Master…
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