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A Kickstarter for Michael Surbrook's Ghosts, Ghouls, and Golems will be going live on March 10th!"Ghosts, Ghouls, and Golems is a roleplyaing game guide to these darkness-dwelling creatures of folklore and myth for the Hero System, Savage Worlds, and Mutants & Masterminds. Emphasis has been placed on presenting these creatures as close to their traditional descriptions as possible - although a few “cinematic,” Hollywood-inspired versions of some of the more popular entries are included. In this book you will find information on vampires, lycanthropes, ghosts, ghouls, wights, and zombies, as well as more obscure creatures like the old hag and...

I had yet another fantastic year at the Metatopia Festival of Game Design in Morristown, New Jersey thanks to Vinny, Avonelle, Darren, and their staff. I got to spend time with friends old and new, playtest and help with unreleased roleplaying games, give seminars, open my mind to input from people different from myself, and generally be the puckish, contrarian gadfly of small-press roleplaying game distribution you all know and love. (Except when you don’t!)   Before I begin, however, I want to emphasize what a unique and special event the festival is. For those of you who don’t know...

  Sometimes shipments that came into our warehouse contain large amounts of damaged products. And sometimes, despite the best efforts of their packagers, shipments arrive at your home completely ruined. Since I've not only run a book warehouse for ten years, but spent the previous fifteen running a delivery service, I thought it might be prudent to go over a few things about shipping and packaging with all of you: especially publishers who are relatively new to the business, but also those who love to order roleplaying game books. Because I'm not only a publisher and a distributor, but also a...

Note: I originally wrote this post for the publishers of the Indie Game Developer Network, but thought it informative enough to make it generally available.  Congratulations! You've managed to write, layout, illustrate, and print a roleplaying game book, either using your own money, funds acquired through crowd-funding, or through investment. The initial copies have been sent to backers, your creative team, investors, reviewers, and friends. It took a lot of effort and you're proud of your game. But now you have boxes of them crowding the living room of your home, and your significant other is threatening you with a...