Recent content by Allen Varney

This 13th Age Megabundle is offered through my Bundle of Holding site, which is separate from and unrelated to Humble Bundle. Diamonds and Shadows dates from 2015 -- it's drawn from the first season of 13A's Organized Play program. Pelgrane Press offered it to me as an exclusive for the original...

There's a lot of unhelpful crosstalk here. From the start: The Discworld RPG Bundle includes the standalone Discworld RPG plus two GURPS Fourth Edition supplements that enhance the Discworld setting: Low-Tech and Fantasy-Tech 1: The Edge of Reality. There is no "Low-Teach." "Low-Teach" doesn't...

I wrote a small section of the Earthdawn Companion -- the "Rituals of Advancement." I was very happy with that piece.

Again, to be clear, the system bleys21 is describing is the current edition of Paranoia, which is not included in the Humble Bundle.

The Paranoia Humble Bundle doesn't include the newest (Perfect) edition nor the preceding Red Clearance Edition. The Humble Bundle presents my "XP" edition (2004) and the three 25th Anniversary rulebooks (2009) by Gareth Hanrahan, along with all the supplements and missions from those lines.

In the first decade of the 20th Century there was a vogue in pop fiction for swashbuckling historical romances, often set in medieval France during the War of the Three Henrys (1585-89). The best and most popular of these were by English writer Stanley J. Weyman (1855-1928). I looked into the...

RPG rules sets are bad at simulating captivity and prison narratives. Stories about prisoners and prison breaks feature a slow gathering of observations over time, careful planning, and a very measured pace. Players of an RPG hate having their characters confined, and they get impatient with the...

Can't believe this thread went almost a full day without a mention of John Harper's Lady Blackbird.

I wrote TOON Silly Stuff and Son of TOON. The credits page makes these look like large collaborative efforts, due to office politics at Steve Jackson Games, but I wrote those books.

I've been here for years and never knew there was a Pub Patreon. Just pledged, thanks.

The film studio licensors who approve Free League's Alien and Blade Runner promotions seem unwilling to approve Bundle of Holding offers. Coriolis is in the current Dragonbane and Year Zero Bundle that ends tomorrow night. Death in Space -- someday, if Free League approves!

Not this year, sorry.

"2023: The Bundle of Holding year in review" (Beyond the Bundle blog).

By the way, at my Bundle of Holding site I just launched the Dragonbane and Year Zero Bundle.

The Bundle of Holding site programmer tells me this feature has gone live on the site.