Hello folks, Eppy here. I’ve finally gotten around to launching the website for my publishing company. I’ve taken a page out of Sandra Lee’s playbook and made it semi-homemade (all the credit with half the effort). Check it out at http://dig1000holes.wordpress.com/.

This is the future home of Time & Temp and where to look if you’re interested in picking up a copy.

At GenCon I had a chance to sit down privately with Mario and David over at The Game Master Show about Time & Temp, and I simply don’t shut up about it. So much so that I think I might have explained the entire game away. So, if you’re sick of reading all six pages of rules, you can give your eyes a rest and put those ears to work.

At the moment, Time & Temp and Dig 1,000 Holes Publishing don’t have a website. That will be rectified soon enough. Until then, good old ISS here will be my clearinghouse for Time & Temp supplementary materials.

For those who’d rather print than photocopy, I present the following pages from the unbound edition of Time & Temp in an easy to use PDF format.

The Matrix

Incident Reports

Personal Progress Reports

Twas a good year for the ISS at GenCon.

Trial & Terror: SVU nominated for an ENnie (alas we didn’t get it, but the nomination was a thrill).

Sign in Stranger debuts at the Pirate Jenny booth and sells out.

Time & Temp debuts, gets the nod from Robin Laws and practically sells out (I’ve got four copies left and four original playtesters who definitely deserve copies, so that worked out nicely). Soon you’ll see it for sale on IPR.

All of these have been playstormed to one degree or another at the Imagination Sweatshop. It’s the year of the storm!

And veteran ISSer Jason Keeley was there with Pantheon Press stuff, running games and spreading the word.

This GenCon,

At the Design Matters Booth (#1834).

Time is but a stream I go fishing in.

-Henry David Thoreau

I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect.

-Henry David Thoreau

Time & Temp has been on my mind for about a year now. I would occasionally noodle with it, trying to find where the balances were, but most of this work was done in the dark without the practical illumination of the ISS and its sweatshopping.

Until now.

Behold, as the Imagination Sweatshop brings all of my insecurities and miscalculations into sharp focus and reveal them to be . . . I might be getting a bit ahead of myself.

In T&T you play temps hired by Marigold Staffing and contracted out to Brown Chronometric Engineering, Inc., to stride through the ages and actualize paradox solutions. You are reality’s only line of defense in the war between freewill and the rigidity of causality. And your only reward is the hard earned satisfaction of a job well done (plus $11.50 an hour and moderate health package that includes comprehensive immunizations against histories most prolific diseases).

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