On today’s Shadowrun Sundays, it’s contest time! During GenCon, I had occasion to purchase the Mayan Edition and regular Collector’s Edition of the Shadowrun Fifth Edition rules. As part of...
No, it’s not Shadowrun Sundays, but hey, as long as I’m whining about writing… As I’m ramping up for my GenCon appearance, I blithely posted on the freelancer’s forum “Hey,...
Welcome back to Shadowrun Sundays. Yesterday I discovered a local game store, Hammer Hall, had shuttered its doors last weekend after about 2 years of operation and one location move....
Networking. Self-Promotion. Business skills. Talent. Which of these does a writer need to make it in the publishing industry? All of them. If anyone ever tells you that a writing...
So I promised on the last Shadowrun Sundays to blog about RPG rules, but to tell you the truth I’m not feeling the mojo. Both the day job and the...
For the past few Shadowrun Sundays, we’ve briefly discussed worldbuilding (Part I and Part II here). Today we’re wrapping up with the central imperative of every game system: A Higher...
In the last Shadowrun Sundays post, we discussed a basic overview of worldbuilding. I’ve often heard it said that Dungeons and Dragons was originally based on The Hobbit and The...
Today’s Shadowrun Sundays addresses game design. Designing a game from scratch requires a lot of work. There’s world building that needs to be done, threats that need to be created,...
Today’s Shadowrun Sundays post is about board and card games. I introduced my peeps to SJG’s King’s Blood card game. This game is about building a genealogy with marriages and...
For today’s Shadowrun Sunday’s post, I wanted to talk about gaming conventions. The small gaming cons don’t get a lot of “con love.” People tend to spend their money and...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
