Year in Review: 2015
December 31, 2015spyrer
Accursed, Evil Beagle Games, Historical, Personal, Savage Worlds, Warhammer 40K Standard
Greetings, readers! It’s time I took a look back at 2015 as we wave goodbye to this year and move on to 2016. Here’s some of the highlights from the year: Professional I did well this year, 17 different products got out onto stole shelves (virtual and physical), and many more on the way. Regicide
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 Addendum–Winter Fantasy Con
December 21, 2015spyrer
Historical, Personal Standard
A Quick Addendum for 2001: One thing I forgot to mention in my last blog post was a very influential convention that I attended early that year: Winter Fantasy Con, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This convention was heavily focused on the RPGA, but it was not far from my location in Louisville, so I drove
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