If our interview with Jason Morningstar interested you, particularly the discussion about Fiasco, you might be pleased to know that Fiasco is now available as a Print+PDF pre-order bundle at Indie Press Revolution. Pre-order the book for $20 and get a free PDF download now!
Buried Tales of Pinebox, Texas -- an anthology of horror stories based on 12 to Midnight's Pinebox adventures for Savage Worlds -- is on sale for $4.49 (regular price is $11.99). That's a pretty cheap price for an anthology of good horror stories (and ideas for your next Savage Worlds horror game).
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According to this official Google Wave blog entry, Google Wave is now officially supporting Google Groups and the permissions associated with each of your individual Google Groups. It's a pretty simple setup. Conveniently, if you already have the Google Group email address among your contacts in Gmail or your Google Account, they'll automatically appear in your contacts in Wave, too.
In Gaming with Picasa Web Albums, I mentioned a tip about using the Picasa desktop software to synchronize albums. I also mentioned the option to collaborate with albums. One thing I omitted was that Picasa 3.5 didn't properly support it. Well now Picasa 3.6 does. Read on to learn more.
Recently, I was given the opportunity to review a set of Steampunk dice sent to me by Q-Workshop, a dice company based in Poland that is well-known for their eccentric and beautifully designed dice and dice sets such as their Runic dice or more recent Call of Cthulhu dice.
When Q-Workshop reached out for reviews of their dice, I desperately wanted to get my hands on the new Wild Die from the Deadlands set, too. I wasn't interested in reviewing the entire set as it had already been discussed and viewed on Pinnacle's forums, but I really wanted to get a good look at the design of that Wild Die. When I asked about possibly obtaining one, Q-Workshop was more than happy to provide one for this review.
Jason Morningstar is best known for his games The Shab-al-Hiri Roach and Grey Ranks, a role-playing game about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, which shared the 2008 Diana Jones Award with Wolfgang Bauer.
He is almost finished with a new game, Fiasco, which aims to recreate the kind of fiction we are accustomed to seeing in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen. This fiction can be described, to quote Jason out of context, as gut-punching-emo-indie-narrativist-misery tourism.
Fiasco is for mature gamers who enjoy playing through bleak and sometimes bloody scenarios. It is also no-prep and GM-less, which is great for a harried GM who has a screaming infant to help care for (cough, cough).
