I heard somewhere — I forget exactly where, so I am sure this account is somewhat mangled — that once someone sold an online PDF entitled How to Start Your Own Tabletop Games Business.  It was a lavishly pure-white single-page document that said, in large, friendly letters: DON’T.

Frankly, after reading Robert J. Schwalb’s

I’d say “wikis go mainstream,” but it seems odd to say that about a gaming company not owned by Hasbro. Regardless: White Wolf has a wiki. This is a tad more significant than The Toothpaste Disaster — while Mongoose and…

The Black Road, an Amber gaming con, just announced that there’ll be an indie game track at the 2006 con. Vericon always has a bunch of indie sorts, just cause there are a bunch of indie game creators in the…

The Diana Jones Award Committee has announced its shortlist of nominees for this year’s Diana Jones Award. The award goes to whatever they think has best demonstrated “excellence in gaming” in the previous year. This year’s shortlist: Code of Unaris…

The 2005 Origins Award Winners have been announced. Kind of an odd year, to say the least. Ars Magica Fifth Edition won Best RPG; good choice from the nominees, all of which were essentially new editions. Eberron as Best Supplement?…

As last year, Mark MacKinnon of Guardians of Order held an open forum at AmberCon to discuss the developing plans for the ADRP. In the interest of keeping interested parties informed, I kept some notes and pass them on here….

FATE has just been released as an OGL system reference document. Cool news, because it provides a simple yet powerful base for system development. (As does FUDGE; however FATE is somewhat more baked.) I still wish FUDGE had gone with…

Here’s a data point for those of you who are doing or considering PDF sales. I just moved to a new laptop; my old one suffered one malfunction too many after four years of faithful service. I had seen something…

The Origins Award Nominees for 2005 have been announced. You can find a list of submitted products here. I think it’s pretty sad that we wound up with five nominated RPGs which, while they’re all good, are also all retreads…

Rodger Thorm spots a Boing Boing post about copyright and points out the implications for RPGs. The US Copyright Office is looking into the need for a system to clear the rights for orphaned copyrighted works with no visible rightsholder….