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I think I have more than 750 words worth of notes already.

I don't recall, are there restrictions on formatting for this (not that the forum provides a host of options there).

Great googly moogly.

Province? Hah! I live in Norway now. (y)

Wonderful. I shall have to look up what PST is exactly. My lived experience suggests provincial sales tax, but I have my doubts.

I'm good whenever.

Ahh, well that might complicate the real time torch thing, sure.

Oh yes. Yes indeed. I will throw my hat in the ring, (y)

Y'know, I design for SD more than anything else, and I don't spend any time at all thinking about the torch timer, other than to make sure that some encounter results threaten the lit torches. If you're doing something scifi you won't break anything by simply not using the timer though.

I'll be writing a lot of urban stuff in the next while as I do a couple of settlement sourcebooks and I'm going to be looking for other ways to use the torch timer to keep games skimming along (ways other than actually measuring how much torch you have left). I'm considering a unit of time...

I'm going to be running a one-shot playtest of my newest SD adventure Blood in the Water this Saturday if anyone wants a seat. It'll be early afternoon EST or dinner time for peeps in the UK. I have one seat, perhaps two. Let me know if you want to play. The adeventure is 80 pages and I have to...

Why not both.

I'm also farting around with random NPC generation, which I'll probably apply to actual monsters at some point.

It occurs to me that a similar approach might be cool for running Inquisition detachments as well. I have the Inquisition as something closer to a chaos-focused Mi6 than the Spanish inquisition in SoE.

So somewhere down the line a supplment or two for Shadows of Empire I'm going to do a proper city sourcebook. One of the ideas I'm playing around with for that is to introduce a troupe style play mode to run Night Watch games. So every player has a core PC that is an officer or Sergeant, and...

Maybe a little Ric Flair for seasoning.

Don't let small sample size make you pivot too quickly either. I just played in a live play where a party of four very good 1st level characters got taken to school by 6 Stingbats. I design encounters to give monsters some synergy and as the GM I play them like they know what they are doing...

Will, from Runeforged Games, did a lovely review of my new book Tower of Hapshut on his shiny new substack. Will's a mensch, everyone should read him.