Month: March 2013
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Campus Tour: Abrimov Sciences Building
Read More: Campus Tour: Abrimov Sciences BuildingThis five-story brick building built in 1949 was named after a Russian scientist who defected to the US and made the college his home. Although Dr. Abrimov’s defection to Pinebox was celebrated at the time, within five years he had created a reputation for a level of belligerence that matched his astronomical intelligence. Even his…
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Class Notes: What Next?
Read More: Class Notes: What Next?Last year the weekly Class Notes column served as a Degrees of Horror progress journal. Once we returned the manuscript to Pinnacle I shifted gears and wrote about the kinds of things you could expect in the book once it’s released. I wrote about Archetypes, the Fear system, capturing the fun parts of campus life…
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Class Notes: Arcane Secrets
Read More: Class Notes: Arcane SecretsIf you’re familiar with Pinebox you know that it takes place in the “real world”– our modern, everyday life. But…not. (It’s a horror setting, after all.) I’ve already written about some of the supernatural adversaries you can expect, but up until today I haven’t really written about the ways you can fight back. As in…
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Class Notes: More Cool Bits
Read More: Class Notes: More Cool BitsLast week I wrote about how much fun you can have using a college campus as a modern game setting. It offers tons of roleplay hooks and it sets the stage as a compilation of all those exciting things you daydreamed about happening in class when you were supposed to be taking notes. If you…
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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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