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Q1 2013 Sales Numbers: Big Beginnings
Posted on April 11, 2013 | 5 CommentsThe first quarter of 2013 included the conclusion of the wildly successful Fate Core kickstarter, representing sales both physical and virtual of a number of upcoming products. Those numbers are... -
The Future of Evil Hat: Part Deuce
Posted on February 28, 2013 | 11 CommentsWe need a bigger hat! Seriously. Evil Hat has grown faster than a beanstalk on steroids over the last year. That success is largely due to our amazingly talented artists…and... -
Q4 2012 Sales Numbers: The Soft Quarter
Posted on January 10, 2013 | Make a CommentWe’ve historically seen the fourth quarter of the year go fairly soft as far as sales numbers go, so it was no surprise this year to see that pattern continue.... -
The Site Move is Done!
Posted on September 23, 2012 | Make a CommentIf you’re seeing this message, our webstore is open again, and the site has successfully moved to its new server. Welcome! -
Evil Hat to Publish Multi-Volume Designers & Dragons Edition
Posted on September 6, 2012 | Make a CommentSo here’s one that snuck up on us. A while back I became aware of Shannon Appelcline’s efforts to document the history of the roleplaying game industry. This is no small job. Our weird little hobby spans four decades of gaming, and there are a ton of stories, known and unknown, floating around out there [...] -
System, Hold the Math
Posted on September 4, 2012 | 1 CommentJust to illustrate something, here are a pair of systems that you can use as a basis for resolution. They share two key characteristics - neither is math dependent but both are heavily expectations dependent.Math is, I hope, self explanatory, but... -
Atomic Robo RPG Playtesting
Posted on August 30, 2012 | Make a CommentMike Olson, lead designer on the Atomic Robo RPG, has put out the call for playtest groups. You can find the details here. I’m ridiculously excited about the developments I’ve seen in ... -
More Skills
Posted on August 28, 2012 | Make a CommentSo many good comments on the last post that I really can't process them, except to note that they resulted in my digesting them, and lead to this.Ok, let's start from a premise: If you roll the dice, you'll succeed.The idea behind this is pretty ... -
The Fragile Foundation of Skills
Posted on August 23, 2012 | Make a CommentThis is a rant. I'm circling an idea, and if you read this, you get to watch.There's a truism that gets rolled out from time to time when talking about old school D&D vs newer iterations (and more generally, old vs new games) and that is this... -
The Mood of the Room
Posted on August 23, 2012 | Make a Comment



