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Tag Archives: Kiss My Axe
Adventures in the Anglo-Saxon Migration
When I consume media of any sort, I get inspired and think about how I could apply it to either my fiction or my gaming. Since my gaming is the creative endeavour on which I spend most of my time … Continue reading
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Tagged adventures, Edge of Inspiration, fantasy, historical gaming, ideas, Kiss My Axe, Sword's Edge System
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Updating the Sword’s Edge
So much time with so little said, but that is because I have been working. Honest. With the start of a new course right around the corner, I haven’t wasted the two months I took off from my MA program. … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Kiss My Axe, sword noir, Sword's Edge System, Swords Edge, systems
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Someone’s Axe is Getting Kissed
I’ve been running a D&D 5E game with my daughters, and they’ve been enjoying it, but when the dice are not kind, they can get frustrated – my youngest especially. I bought them their own dice at Gen Con, and … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, Kiss My Axe, Nefertiti Overdrive, Sword's Edge System, systems
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Facing the “Five Destructive Myths”
So, there’s been some discussion about an article entitled “Five Destructive Myths Perpetuated by Roleplaying Games,” and I decided to see how my games stack up against these myths. To be clear: I don’t consider any of these to be … Continue reading
UGS Design Goals
Last post, I told you a lot about my history as a designer, now let’s talk about my specific design goals for the Untitled Game System (UGS). It is slightly different than for Starship Commandos or A Team of Losers, … Continue reading
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Tagged Centurion, design, Kiss My Axe, Nefertiti Overdrive, sword noir, Sword's Edge System, systems, UGS
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Nefertiti Overdrive: What Becca Taught Me
This is a long post. It’s a section from out of the “How I Play” portion of Nefertiti Overdrive. I’m including the entire section because I think it helps to encapsulate the philosophy I am bringing to this system. If … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, crowd-funding, Gen Con, historical gaming, Kickstarter, Kiss My Axe, Nefertiti Overdrive, systems
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Nefertiti Overdrive: Conception
The concept of Nefertiti Overdrive is, in many ways, a continuation of the concept for Kiss My Axe: Thirteen Warriors and an Angel of Death. Kiss My Axe took the historical Viking era and culture, and threw in cinematic action. … Continue reading
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Tagged business, campaign, crowd-funding, fantasy, historical gaming, Kickstarter, Kiss My Axe, Nefertiti Overdrive
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Creating Centurion Adventures: People and Places
So we talked about how I generally come up with the situation in my one-page adventures. In our first playtest for Centurion: Legionaries of Rome (the Kickstarter is funded but help me make at least one stretch goal), I chose … Continue reading
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Tagged adventures, advice, campaign, Centurion, historical gaming, ideas, Kiss My Axe, sword noir
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Reaching the Game Summit
One of the takeaways from Gen Con 2011 was that I was not good at pimping my product in person. I had copies of a Kiss My Axe ashcan edition and I wasn’t able to sell any, simply because I … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Bully Pulpit Games, business, cons, Corey Reid, Dino-Pirates, Jason Pitre, Killshot, Kiss My Axe, Ninja Island, sword noir, The Warden
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Monthly Sales for December 2012
Welcome to 2013. Watch your step. A summary of 2012? I reached the culmination of one spurt of design energy with the release of “Suffer the Witch” for Kiss My Axe, and then lay fallow (save for finishing some short … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Centurion, Head Crushers, Kiss My Axe, sales data, sword noir
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