• Criminals: An Experiment in Card Game Publishing

    Around 2006-2007, I was involved with a small startup game company called Robot Martini. We focused at first on making small card games by friends. The whole thing didn’t work out. But we did make some cool games. Flash forward to 2012 when I heard a rumor that the company behind DriveThruRPG was starting their… [Continue Reading]

    Criminals: An Experiment in Card Game Publishing

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Criminals: An Experiment in Card Game Publishing

June 12, 2013 By 5 Comments

Around 2006-2007, I was involved with a small startup game company called Robot Martini. We focused at first on making small card games by friends. The whole thing didn’t work out. But we did make some cool games. Flash forward to 2012 when I heard a rumor that the company behind DriveThruRPG was starting their [...]

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I Have A Reaction To Console Gaming

June 11, 2013 By 1 Comment

When I was 4, I got an ear infection or strep throat or some other relatively minor infection, and my parents gave me some sort of Sulfa-based antibiotic. That was a really bad idea, because it turns out I am crazy allergic to that, and I basically turned into a tiny red Frankenstein with crazy [...]

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Chatty DM, Freelancer, Epilogue: Tales of Ubiquity

June 6, 2013 By 4 Comments

Between May and August of 2011, I wrote a series of articles that looked back on the different stages of my life which led me to become a RPG freelancer. This an epilogue of sorts. You can read the previous articles here: Part 1: Lessons from Academia Part 2: Lessons from Day Jobs Part 3: [...]

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