Gillian Fraser is the lead designer for Wicked Fantasy. Wicked Fantasy, currently KSing here, is a project where she and veteran designer John Wick are re-imagining fantasy races from scratch. As soon as I saw this Pathfinder supplemental had a woman as lead, I knew I had to talk to Gillian, and I was not disappointed! Here’s her fantastic...
Read more →I am currently working on a project with my husband that is called Off the Shelf. It is a setting neutral system, and it has been a huge adventure! I have had more experience recently working on mechanics than ever before. Though they are not my strong suit, trying to do new things with...
Read more →My husband John is, and has been, the primary GM for most tabletop game groups in which I have participated. I have, thanks to my unique girlfriend-to-wife relationship been able to see his work both behind-the-scenes and in-scene. I say what I say not because I’m his wife, but because it’s true: He is...
Read more →A common liberal view of religion (popularized by esteemed religious scholar Huston Smith, a Unitarian Universalist and author of the classic comparative religion textbook The World’s Religions) is this: All religions are fundamentally the same. They are different paths that lead up the same mountain, to use Smith’s metaphor. This viewpoint has been espoused by...
Read more →So, my husband and I have a new game company, called Play Attention Games, Inc. Our first game, curse the darkness, is currently in Kickstarter phase. Our release date is August 2012, barring major catastrophe. Needless to say, I’m very excited. I’ve worked in the RPG industry for over 10 years now, from editor...
Read more →My gaming group rotates games and GMs almost weekly. We have at least half a dozen ongoing campaigns, and numerous other one-shot games under our belts. My on-going game is Hollow Earth Expedition – a pulp adventure game that I fell in love with last summer at the Origins Game Fair. For those unfamiliar...
Read more →When you’re building a world for a game, you might want to add sexism to the mix. Here’s a way you can do it. Get a piece of paper and make two columns. Put men on one side, women on the other. Write down a list of gender roles for men and women. Don’t...
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