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).

The process of co-creating, co-writing, and, most importantly, playing MonkeyDome blew my fucking mind.

It was a horrible mess. Gray matter everywhere.

Took me a whole week to piece it all back together, which was a feat due to my complete lack of king’s horses or king’s men.

This festering wound in my skull, along with a particularly eye-opening and downright thrilling Western mod of MonkeyDome we played, dead tired, on the train to JiffyCon laid the groundwork for a new game I’m tentatively calling Swords Without Master (or Sword Buddies, who knows.)

A Tale of Two Rogues

Over the past few months, I have been immensely enjoying Fritz Leiber’s Lankhmar series. Some of the stories are distant memories recalled from the mists of my youth; many of them, brand new. These books rekindled in me the lusty fires of sword & sorcery. And what’s more, I recognized my gaming desires tucked inside the text: a tantalizing blend of humor, thrills, and wonder. I had discovered that, perhaps not by accident, I had grown into the fiction that gave birth to this hobby. (more…)