So I have been beavering away on Reel Adventures recently and it is shaping up to be really good. Down at Conception I had a couple of playtests that really showed me what was missing and what needed to be chucked:

Applause: This was an attempt to make the players jump more into action due to the fact that there was little incentive to create resources and win the action scenes as it increased your stake danger. This is now gone as it was far too complicated, way too much book keeping post scene. It has now been replaced by..

'Cos how much fun is a menstruating journalist anyway?

I got my latest version online, 95% done I'd say. Featuring the beautiful artwork of Mr Gregor Hutton. Still waiting for Treur's piece...

So guys, what's missing?
Does it make sense?
Is it too long?

Also if anyone fancies drawing some random beasties - I could always use a few more!

L&L v6

Thanks to everyone who's helped with the project upto now, especially Gregor and Rich.

(I cross-posted this to my lj too a few weeks back, for those that are following it there)

I've only really discussed the core mechanics and premise of Ordinary Angels so far (mostly in the comments, here and here), but this weekend I've been working on one of the major aspects of the game - the pacing mechanics and the Plan.

At Dragonmeet I met Jerry Grayson (from Khepera Publishing), who's a very enthusiastic guy who'd once emailed me about Lost gods - one of my free games - saying he liked it. During our chat he mentioned that I should think about doing something more with it.

This of course got me thinking.

I wrote Lost Gods in 2001 (a late version of it can be found on the Realms eZine). It's a game about fading deities and the small miracles they craft to sustain themselves. Think Gaiman-esque fiction.

Ok, so Six Bullets seems to be on hold at the moment whilst I wrap my head round some of the issues with structure and narration. So Ordinary Angels has swaggered forwards to fill the gap. I know what I want the game to do, and I have a check list of rules that I want in it, but I'm having trouble piecing all the pieces together.

Over at Story Games I posted about some of my more recent works in progress, one of which is One Giant Leap. I expanded upon it a bit at Iain's request:

One Giant Leap is a game about space exploration, a pseudo-hard sci-fi game about astronauts travelling out into the solar system to visit other planets and finding weird stuff there. It's directly inspired by the likes of 2001: a space odyssey, Solaris and Sunshine, three sources of inspiration that immediately put paid to my hard sci-fi label. It's all realistic-ish science until they meet the weird shit, k?