At the heart of many tabletop games lie a handful of dice. When you write a game, I propose that you should keep it simple, especially as a self-publisher or small scale game company, and stick with dice – because no one wants to spend money on something weird and wonderful for a game that […]
Christmas in July
Merry Summer time, everybody! Perhaps the exciting of Christmas got the better of me – but today I realised that I hadn’t posted about Christmas in July over on RPGNow and DriveThruRPG. If you haven’t been already, this is your chance to stock up on Summer time game reads and fill that tablet/Kindle with all […]
Removing Investigative Resources
I’m open to discussion about The Cthulhu Hack on many levels. I’m not precious about the rule set and I accept that once released into the wild anyone can do anything with it. In the Google+ Community for the game, Scott Maclure asked: Could [The Cthulhu Hack] remove Investigative Resources, i.e. Flashlights and Smokes, without really affecting […]
RPG Book Club
July sees the inaugural meeting of the #RPGBookClub on Twitter and after a vote earlier last month the first book up for discussion is The Cthulhu Hack. If you have the PDF lying in your computer Downloads or nestled in your smartphone cloud account of choice, or perhaps you picked it up at a convention, […]
Delta Green: Observer Effect
If we look too deeply into the roiling chaos of reality, chaos may look back. I ran the Delta Green adventure Observer Effect for Free RPG Day. I had intended to run a couple of sessions, but on the day we didn’t start until an hour after I’d planned – and as it turned out, […]
Cthulhu Hack Covered
In pursuit of an appearance and format I can iterate across The Cthulhu Hack range, I have been tinkering with the covers of the core books – including From Unformed Realms and The Haunter of the Dark. I’m not committing to a finalised version yet – but after two years of organic development in the […]
Cthulhu Hack Update
The Cthulhu Hack had a 2nd birthday last month and the line continues to grow. At the core, we have the three core books, along with two books of adventures, and other books filled with campaign materials, like The Dark Brood and Convicts & Cthulhu. Good moment for an update. The Cthulhu Hack Website It […]
Wendigo wins Popular Choice Award
I’m over-joyed to report that Three Faces of the Wendigo won Popular Choice Award for Best Role-playing Adventure at UK Games Expo this past weekend. I have had a tiring but exciting time, meeting hundreds of gamers from amongst tens of thousands of attendees to the event in Birmingham, UK. The biggest gaming event in the […]
UK Games Expo 2018
For those attending the big event (in less than a fortnight’s time), I will have all The Cthulhu Hack books with plenty of ‘new’ and new stuff. There’ll be: Three Faces of the Wendigo, which isn’t new but up for the Best Role-Playing Adventure Award, that features three different adventures by three different authors concerning hunger, […]
The Dark Brood Updated and On Sale
I’m pleased to tell you that The Dark Brood has been expanded, upgraded and uploading – now 20-pages with a tweak to the cover image. The Dark Brood offers a selection of content bringing the fecundity of Shub-Niggurath front and centre to your game and loosing her mindless progeny upon the world. The supplement has been […]
Best Role-Playing Adventure Nomination at UK Games Expo
The Cthulhu Hack: Three Faces of the Wendigo has been nominated in the Best Role-Playing Adventure category at this years UK Games Expo Awards to be awarded at the event that runs from 1st – 3rd June 2018. The adventure supplement takes the Wendigo myth – filled with supernatural horror, the wilderness, unfettered hunger and the darkness […]
The Dark Brood Cover
The lurking progeny of the Great Mother, the Eternal Womb, the Black Goat… they lurk in wait. I have work to do to complete the text of The Dark Brood and I have my fingers crossed that I can complete the task in the scant time that remains. However, for the moment, there’s a cover […]
The Cthulhu Hack Redux
I have launched the new version of The Cthulhu Hack core rules through RPGNow and DriveThruRPG. This is not a major revision in terms of content, but has undergone a completely fresh layout and a typeface refresh. The book has undergone a brisk tweaking around the edge and I have done my damnedest to bring the […]
Stock Refresh
I have run out of copies of The Cthulhu Hack core book, which means it’s time to get in touch with the printer to order more. However, I’m aware that the current version of the core that I have doesn’t contain the expanded and tweaked version of the Hit Dice as Resource rules. And I […]
TCH: Convicts & Cthulhu Redux
I have had some request recently for copies of the physical The Cthulhu Hack: Convicts & Cthulhu book. At this point in time, no more copies exist. They had a limited run and now, aside from a personal copy, they’re all gone. As to the PDF version, this will remain available through DriveThru and RPGNow as […]