Fair Game has an excellent GenCon Retrospective kicked off by Emily and heavily documented by Ron Edwards. It details the Forge booths through the years.

[shamelessselfpromotion]I have a new blog for my gaming company, Dread Fuzzy Designs; link in sig ^_^[/shamelessselfpromotion]

~Geoff

Dread Fuzzy Blog

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[Edit: Post moved as "Things of Interest" threads should only contain things of interest and not debate or posts about them. Sorry that Andrew drew you into that one. Bad Andrew! - Gregor]

Less self promotion, more actually designing/posting about your games :-) I want to hear about Xenophobia, NOW!

In this thread Things of Interest only, Andy!

One of my favourite sites is National Geographic and this month they have a feature on Glacier National Park.

There's no people in the pics and it just screams out to be the backdrop for a Conan or other fantasy game.

[They also have other articles like the rise and fall of the Maya, which I probably should have put as a Thing of Interest last month.]

Well it was kind of a request for a thing of interest ;-) How's this instead then?

My good friend Todd has premiered his indie movie, Ordinary Angels, on which I'm basing my game. He has a good write up of the huge Dragon*Con sci-fi and fantasy festival here, here and here, which might be of interest to some of you curious about what the indies get up to in other mediums, or what a really big geek convention looks like!

My thing of interest is that I'm only going to spot things on these forums by fluke at the moment, as most of my attention is otherwise occupied. It'd be easier to keep track if it were possible to subscribe to threads.

Tim Gray
Silver Branch Games
www.silverbranch.co.uk

Okay, there's a REALLY cool article from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists from May/June 1997 so it's hardly something of interest form this month. However it IS incredibly interesting. Now, it's entirely likely that you may have seen this before but if not consider this potential stunning inspiration for a CoC (or similar) game:

Mysteries Under Moscow

Note that link doesn't take you to the original article, which I have saved on my hard drive, as the Bulletin seems to no longer be available on the net. Instead it links to one of many other places that hosts the original article.

~Geoff

Dread Fuzzy Blog

Some of the old school Mafia go away for good.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6990489.stm

Cheers

Iain

Mob Justice now available!

'The Giant Brain':Small games, big ideas.

I discovered this while looking for some appropriately Soviet era imagery to riff off for the website. Fascinating stuff:

A soviet poster a day

-Matt

I'm not sure if any of you have been watching BBC4's series about the history of British comics, Comics Britannia, but it's well worth it. Tonight's episode was about the growing sophistication and maturity of comics for boys and girls in the 50s, 60s and 70s, paying particular attention to Dan Dare, Commando and Roy of the Rovers.

It's been a fascinating series to date, very well presented and a thoroughly interesting insight, all tied together with great interviews and a compelling narration by Armando Iannucci.

If you missed it, luckily BBC4 repeats things ad nauseum, so it's on again tonight at 220, then several times throughout the week on wednesday, friday and probably sunday night too.

Interesting fact: Dan Dare was originally a chaplain! Albeit a space chaplain. I don't think that lasted long.

Second interesting fact: the artist who drew Dan Dare made his brother, son and father dress up as the characters, in full costume, so he could take photos to draw from later. His son was frequently the Mekon!

Definitely a euphemism for something rude...

I would suggest you all see 'This films is not yet rated' which was on bbc4 last night and may be repeated at some point. It is an interesting look at the MPAA and censorchip issues in general.

Cheers

Iain

Mob Justice now available!

'The Giant Brain':Small games, big ideas.