2016, in Review
December 29, 2016spyrer
Accursed, Evil Beagle Games, Hero Games, Historical, Personal, Savage Worlds Standard
Greetings, readers. 2016 has been a heck of a year, both in good things (for me, personally) and bad (though surely I don’t need to list some of the ways this year has disappointed us, especially with all the fine and talented folk who died). I want to use this post to take a look
Blast From the Past: 2003
December 30, 2015spyrer
D20, Hero Games, Historical, Personal Standard
2003 was a huge year for me as a game designer. I was living in Louisville at the time, which was both good and bad. It was good, since I had a lot of time to focus on my writing. I had earlier broken into the d20 market through Citizen Games, and I was able
Blast From the Past: 2001-2002
December 12, 2015spyrer
Champions, D20, Hero Games, Historical, Personal Standard
Inspired by Shannon Appelcline’s excellent Designers & Dragons series of historical books about the RPG industry, I’ve decided to go through my own history and talk about my perspective on the projects I’ve been involved in. By 2001, I had already had some published work. If you can call it that. I spoke before about
Champions, Evil Beagle Games, Hero Games Standard
Featuring original and new material by Aaron Allston (Star Wars Legacy of the Force and X-Wing series; the Doc Sidhe series; Dungeons & Dragons Mystara; numerous Champions and other RPG products), this project is a revival of one of the greatest roleplaying products in the hobby’s history. Strike Force was originally published in 1988 as