Observations of the Fox

I haven't done much on the blog over the last few weeks because I've been busy engaging my practical experience period in a high school as a part of my university studies. But I have managed to put together a few images for my RPG, "The Law". Hopefully I can get back to work on this project in three more weeks, when my practical experience period is over.

After struggling to find the terrain tutorial series I created a few years ago, I have just updated the " Other Tutorials " page in the menu at the top of this blog. I basically just walked a school class of 11-12 years olds through the processes described in that tutorial and I'll be providing them with more details regarding that in the next couple of weeks. Now I just need to update the rest of the links in those menus, because I've needed several of them a few times over the years and have given up searching through the 1800-odd posts on the blog. (In the process I discovered that I use the "Rant" tag far more often than I thought I did)

I usually don't worry about new versions of Warhammer 40k, but posts like this and this , along with rumours of a new skirmish level game in the vein of Necromunda are drawing my interest. A lot of these modifications seem to be streamlining the game, and make a logical sense to me.. but I've been out of the loop for so many iterations of the game that I'm really not sure 🤔 whether things are being improved or not in this version of the rules. Still, it's got my attention, and I'll be keeping an eye on the further blog posts as they reveal more.

The finalists of the 200 word RPGs have been released. I'm not among the entrants that made it to this level, but that's not really important. It a fun challenge to participate in, and as I've said previously, I try to participate in contests like this to see where the cutting edge of game design is, to see what other designers known and unknown are currently pushing with their designs. I will have a look at all the finalists, and offer my own critique on them. A few people have already started doing this, a few with rating systems of their own. 200 words is tough, I could easily write more about the entries than the length of the entries themselves... and since there are hundreds of entries, it could be a mammoth undertaking. I think I'll generate a quick rating system based on a couple of criteria, a score out of 10, and a sentence or two on each.This will start by alternating between finalists and random entries, then progress through chunks of the remainder. ...