Month: May 2013
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Coming Soon to a City Near You
Read More: Coming Soon to a City Near YouThat is, if your city is near Indianapolis (mine sure isn’t) and “soon” means August. Yours truly (Preston) will be making my first trip to  GenCon this year. Needless to say I’m really excited and I’d love to meet as many 12 to Midnight fans as possible. I’m running three games (Brainwashed, Chickens in the…
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Campus Tour: Aquatics Center
Read More: Campus Tour: Aquatics CenterFrom the outside, the most striking features of  ETU’s DuBose Aquatics Center are the bas-relief carvings of sailing vessels and divers which frame the entrance. Students who answer the carvings’ call to adventure find a pleasant but less ostentatious interior. The single-story building offers a training pool for diving and swimming, as well as an…
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Campus Tour: Danford Male Dormitory
Read More: Campus Tour: Danford Male DormitoryNot only does ETU require Freshman and Sophomore students to live on campus, but the majority of the dormitories are still single-sex. While the practice may be less “enlightened” than other campuses,  many young women and men say they feel more relaxed and “at home” without social pressures inherent with living in close proximity to the…
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Designer’s Notebook: Exams
For those who haven’t played ETU before, one of the core mechanics is that each Advance corresponds to an exam (either mid-terms or finals). You ARE a student after all, so that means making choices between investigating a haunting or attending a study session. Your academics can be improved or worsened based on extracurriculars and…
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Designer Notes: More Setting Rules
First, I want to say thank you with all my heart to those who have backed Fresh Blood on Kickstarter. It means so much to Preston and I and we hope you like and appreciate our efforts. Our fans are awesome, and I can’t wait to hear all of your tales and adventures in Pinebox. …
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One Crazy Idea
I (Preston) published a version of this article on my Substack back in early April. If you want the early scoop about my writing projects, that’s a good place to subscribe (for free). A couple months ago when we were building up momentum to talk about the Kickstarter for East Texas University: Fresh Blood, I…
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