This category is dedicated to posts about all kinds of game-related design and art: showcase, requests for feedback, discussion on rules and so on.
As of this moment, the Ministry Initiative Kickstarter (a steampunk FATE-powered RPG and fiction project) has raised about 15k $, with 5k $ to go in the next 5 days. If you’ve been on the fence, or if this is the first time you hear about it, here’s an interview with the authors. J.R....
Read more →Monsterhearts is a favorite here at Gaming As Women and right now something special is going on over at Kickstarter that’s garnered our attention: A thing called Second Skins, the first major expansion for Monsterhearts. New Skins, new MCing advice, new ways to play the game, music, an entire new rpg, crossovers with existing...
Read more →Pay what you want for six great games as DRM-free PDFs – and donate to the Mines Advisory Group and Doctors Without Borders.
The bundle includes Grey Ranks (by Fiasco designer Jason Morningstar), Shooting the Moon (Emily Care Boss), A Penny for My Thoughts (Paul Tevis), and Kagematsu (Danielle Lewon). If you give more than the current average, you also get Hollowpoint (Brad Murray and C. W. Marshall) and Monsterhearts (Joe Mcdaldno). Hurry up – only five days left!
Today we’re talking with Manuela Soriani, co-author of Dilemma, “a game about having power on other people and getting in touch with them”, powered by the Apocalypse. The blind playtest document is out now1. I urge you to check it out! But first, read more about the game and its author. Tell us something...
Read more →Last time, I talked a bit about the mechanics of A Tragedy in Five Acts and how I came to write it, with the promise of more discussion of daughters and feminism and art and such in Part 2. With that in mind, here we are. Daughters and Feminism in Tragedy So, as I...
Read more →So I wrote a game called A Tragedy in Five Acts, which is finally done and available at DriveThruRPG.net in PDF, with hardcopy going out to Kickstarter backers (thank you!) in the next week or so as the printer ships it, and then up on the site for sale. Tragedy is an indie, one-night,...
Read more →In his graphic design manifesto, Frank Chimero throws down some essential design knowledge by saying “Take things away until you cry.” Antoine de Saint Exupéry, known for creating the Little Prince, declares “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”...
Read more →At our local indie game night, we played Itras By by Ole Peder Giæver and Martin Bull Gudmundsen. Itras By is a tabletop role playing game with a very rules-lite system, not using dice, but descriptive cards to prompt the outcomes in conflicts and twists in the story, and giving the players a lot...
Read more →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 →This is the follow up to the previous article Men wear armour, Women wear sexy-time lingerie. Here I address issues of how men and women are pictured in games, beyond what they are wearing. We will try to answer the this two common questions that often arise in discussion: “What is wrong with pictures...
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