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Hey Rob! Always nice to see fan appreciation of Mythic Europe and Ars Magica. Do you think you could maybe not use the art from the game, though? We don't generally consider it fair use to borrow art like that without proper consideration of the original artist's rights and copyright on the part...

Transition scenes don't generally have actions in them - that's what action scenes are for. The exception is recovery actions, which can take place in transition scene as well as action scenes. A transition scene is primarily a way to introduce new resources (representing investigation or...

This is really great! Cheers, Cam

Of course. I think randomly doing things in game design just because they're not the way they're done up to that point shows no more sense than keeping everything just because that's how it's always done.

This is a great article. Reflects my feeling about design in RPGs also. There's a tremendous amount of pushback on it, too - there are going to be people who say that if the game doesn't include X or Y legacy idea (whether it's elves, or d20s, or hit points, or a monster manual) then it's no...

I'd super happy if Fria Ligan picked it up. Cheers, Cam

Sweden is, clearly, the future of great RPGs. That's why I'm visiting again this year. It's just that great. Cheers, Cam

No, totally serious. Cheers, Cam

We can never have enough games with polyhedral dice for stats!

Sentinel Comics RPG will be Kickstartered, yes. Greater Than Games are the publisher. Critical Hits is the design studio working with them on it, and I'm working with them as an independent contractor/developer/designer. Don't have much more information on it than that, but you'll be able to...

Official title is Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game. Cheers, Cam

Pillar of Fire is epic science fiction rather than space opera, but it's also got a lot of fantastic elements defined as far-future science such as souls, reincarnation, etc. I originally pitched it to Atlas Games internally because I didn't like any of the SF RPGs that were out there that...

Folks, nobody has been laid off. Please don't speculate about that part of it. Magic Vacuum is my new design studio and I'm licensing all rights to Cortex from Margaret, not taking over a company or reinventing any wheels. I'll crowdfund some cool stuff next year and folks will continue to be...

It's not our ACTUAL slogan. :) Cheers, Cam

In case you're wondering, "Magic Vacuum" comes from one of the many drug stories people have told my wife, who is apparently the one person in all of her circles of friends that stoners like to tell their stories to. Anyway, this dude was sitting in the back of a car, high as a kite, having a...

The Unknown Armies roleplaying game is Kickstarting for a new edition right now, and Atlas Games needs your help to make it the greatest new edition of Unknown Armies it can possibly be. Visit the UA3 Kickstarter campaign page here! Unknown Armies is an occult RPG about broken people...

I love Gryphon Hill! I ran a campaign using it and I6 for several years in AD&D 1e. Loved it. Cheers, Cam

I have a million ideas for a return to Krynn, and none of them involve re-hashing the War of the Lance for a new edition. Dragonlance is my favorite D&D setting, I've devoted a huge chunk of my career and writing to it, and I'm both aware of the faults others point out in it and how those...

Sovereign Press/MWP office was on the same block as Horticultural Hall until we all relocated. Lake Geneva is a fun town to visit but it's pretty awful to live there, personally.

Here at Atlas, we typically call this position a producer when it involves card or board games. My title is Director, because theoretically I could hire a developer for each RPG line that we have and oversee their work, but as it happens I'm doing developmental work on most of them myself. We...