Recent content by Shawn Carman

Having spent many years visiting Origins for enjoyment and working at Gen Con, I quit going to Gen Con in 2022 and now just hit up Origins. I miss some of the enormity of the GC vendor hall and some of the people that I could only see there, but the cost and the crowds at GC are just too much...

I would have voted for the G.I. Joe one coming out in February but it wasn't on the list. Even then... would have been a tough choice between that and Shadow of the Weird Wizard. All hail Schwalb!

I'm a game designer and my lucrative day job is... teaching. I clearly have flawed judgment.

As a publisher I crave reviews. I also lament that I am not allowed to review or even rate things on DriveThru, because of the aforementioned "being a publisher" thing. I get a lot of games on PDF. I would really like to be able to review some of them now and then. Feels sort of disingenuous to...

This isn't by any means the first time Origins and Pride have happened on the same day. I remember many previous parades taking place while I was at the convention center or the North Market.

EDIT: Sorry, never mind. My bad, guys.

Thanks for the news, guys. I had missed the blog post about the shifter and I was glad to read it.

Full disclosure: I'm writing one of the micro-settings for Tiny Dungeons 2E, so I'm very biased. However, the KS crossed its final stretch goal today at $50k, and now there will be Tiny Dungeons 2E: Hatchling Edition, which I think is incredibly cool. Not only is this edition of the rules...

Huh. I recognize that art for Stellar Adventures. That was on a Choose Your Own Adventure style book I had when I was a kid back in the 80s. I still have it around here somewhere...

Alan is a brilliant designer, a fantastic developer, and an all-around great guy. This is good news on all fronts!

On the one hand, I wish these articles included the MSRP. On the other... it's probably for the best.

I loved 1E, found 2E a bit too limited with its "there aren't any magic items" bit, and 3E was met with revolt by my gaming group so I never really got to run it, much to my chagrin.

Cool. Thanks for the heads-up, man. I'll go give it another look, then!

I'm interested in Lex Occultum, but I've had some bad experiences with games translated from their original language into English. Can anyone allay my fears for this particular project? I'm not familiar with the company's other works so maybe they're really good at this kind of thing?

Is there an independent comparison of these three anywhere? I'd be interested in trying one but I'd like to see an educated evaluation from a party experienced with all three.