Socratic Design

Heya, The best answer, in fact the only answer, to that question is, “Something you want to play.” In my experience, the games I’ve had the...

Hello there! It has been a very long time since I have posted on this blog. The reasons are legion. If you want to read what I've been...

Heya, Every summer I take the month of June off to travel, enjoy nature, and recharge my emotional and mental batteries. I won't post h...

Heya, I'm finishing up my essays here on the five aspects of Exploration. This one is about "Character." The provisional gloss...

Heya, If you have independantly published your own RPG, then the Forge Booth for GenCon is still accepting buy-ins until June 1st. If you...

Heya Color is identified by the Forge as one of the five main areas of Exploration. It is defined in the Provisional Glossary as, “Imagine...

Heya, Every now and then on game design boards or blogs you hear people talk about "shooting a sacred cow." While I applaud this, ...

Heya, A while back I posted a series of 5 questions on Game Craft in the spirit of Socratic Design. I wanted to share the answers here on t...

Heya, For a while it was a really hip thing to post your Power 19 at the Forge or Story Games . Over time, it slightly fell out of favor. ...

Heya, One of the largest barriers, if not the largest barrier, to playing an RPG is learning the mechanics. Human beings are so unpredictabl...

Heya, I’m going to talk just a little bit about resolution systems today- specifically using things other than dice. Nothing too deep. I j...

Heya, The guys over at Cannon Puncture have posted the second part of my interview with them. It's my first podcast interview and I...

Heya, Life has gotten really busy for me lately. Between participating in the Game Chef competition and grad school, I haven't had must...

Heya, The best way to get better at game design is to practice game design. I firmly believe every nascent designer should give it a go in ...

Heya, Why yes there are! So glad you asked. Actually you didn't, I just needed a way to set up this article. heh heh Anyway, this blog i...

Heya, Let's say you've got a game you've been working on for a while now. You have playtested it many times with your buddies a...

Heya, If you haven't heard, Story Games is down. On another blog Andy (the guy who runs the site) and another guy (Mark) mentioned that...

Heya, One of the biggest influences on me as a young game designer was John Wick. Back in 2000 he wrote a series of game design articles ab...

Heya, I promise to get to more practical design focused articles very soon, but this is a question that comes up a lot. I thought it could b...

Heya, I’m really heavy into the publication and sales side of game design right now, so my articles are germane to that. Today, I’m just bri...