#HappyBirthdayMonte Around The World
As the newest MCG hire, I think Monte is pretty flippin’ rad. His games hooked me into tabletop gaming in …
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Looking Back on 30 Years of Great RPG Design
Monte’s birthday is this coming Monday (January 29th), and we’re going to celebrate it with him on Saturday, the 27th. …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 11: The Rule That Almost Was
A week or so ago, I put the finishing touches on the Invisible Sun Rules Primer. This is something that …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 10: The Sooth Deck
Like many things, the Sooth Deck serves multiple purposes in Invisible Sun. As a part of the setting, the Sooth …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 9: Surreal Gaming
Note: Invisible Sun is now available for preorder, which gets you bonus material! When I was a kid I liked to look …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 7: The First Session
When I created Numenera, I wrote in a design diary that I didn’t like character creation. I said that I …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 6: We Need Secrets
I’ve written in other venues about the “thrill of the hunt.” And by that, I mean the hunt for that …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 5: The Vislae Ghost Play Experience
I’ve always known that in the world of Invisible Sun—the Actuality—death is not what we think it to be here …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 5: The Vislae Ghost Play Experience
Invisible Sun Design Diary 4: Long Form Magic
Spells, rituals, and so on in RPGs rarely feel like magic in fiction or real world occult studies because they’re usually …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 3: Visual and Tactile Design
I am learning as much or more designing Invisible Sun as I have during any other design. It’s as though …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 2: Acquiring Different Abilities with Different Experience Points
Depending on your point of view, it’s either enlightening or disheartening to look behind the curtain of a game’s …
Invisible Sun Design Diary 2: Acquiring Different Abilities with Different Experience Points
Invisible Sun Design Diary 1: Stats
Although Invisible Sun has been in the works for a long time, only now am I actually putting words to …