Realms Publishing

Next week I’ll be heading stateside to that Mecca of gaming GenCon Indianapolis!

I’ll be feverishly demoing and selling my wares with the Play Collective (booth 2039). The Collective are an enthusiastic group of designers who have a passion for self-publishing, including: Vincent Baker, Joshua A.C. Newman, Robert Bohl , Emily Care Boss , Judd Karlman , Tony Lower-Basch , Elizabeth Shoemaker and Malcolm Craig . These are some of my favourite designers, so it’s really great  to be joining them!

The booth is also partnered with the Ashcan Front. Here you’ll find some late-playtest games looking for enthusiastic and constructive feedback.

As ever I’ll have Covenant on sale, grab me if you want a demo or just to chat about the game and where it came from. I’ll also have a limited number of copies of Pulp! which is ready for fast and furious action!

Well, it’s been a while coming, but I finally released an electronic version of Covenant.

You can currently download the PDF at RPGNOW for a $10 price tag. This is half what the book costs, so you’re getting plenty of goodness for your e-buck.

The PDF also contains all the errata and a few extra tweaks. Nothing major was added, but if you own the book, drop me and email (matt / at / realms / co / uk) and I’ll hook you up with a PDF too. Gratis.

The last weekend in May/first in June is the second outing for UK Games Expo. Birmingham hasn’t had a big con for a while, so last year’s was definitely a welcome arrival. Expo covers all kinds of games from RPGs and miniatures through to board games and cards. It’s notable for the effort the organisers put into outreach, doing lots of work to get kids and families in. Hopefully there’ll be some crossover into the RPG arena there, they seem to have taken onboard last years comments about the RPGs being hidden away in the basement.

I’ll be running two games, which you can sign up for here. A Covenant taster and a Lost Gods preview. Both will be running start games, so expect to turn up with nothing and then do zero to game in 10 minutes. RPG sessions do cost £2 to book, so I’ll be busting a gut to make it worth your pennies. With luck I’ll also have some freebies…

When I’m not running stuff I’ll be found on the Collective Endeavour Stand, where you can also see a range of UK Smallpress games including some new faces. Keep a look out for the Revenge of the B Movie card game from Iain McAllister and Neil Gow’s Napoleonic story game Duty & Honour. 

For myself, I’ll have nothing new to sell, but will have an early version of Lost Gods to show off and a near complete version of my miniatures skirmish game Pulp! 

As you probably notice from the sidebar, I’m rebooting a long dormant game called Lost Gods. Originally written around 2000 and billed as “a game of fading deities”, the new version is different, and quite the experiment. 

(more…)

The Realms Codex is now back in action following a severe bout of spam that was making it difficult to use. This mostly seems sorted with the new upgrade. There’s some good stuff there, contributed by folks who have run their own games. The cities are well worth investigating.