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Interview with Monte Cook

Posted on June 4, 2004 by

How did you get into gaming? I started gaming when I was about 10. I heard about it in, of all places, Sunday School. Some people were talking about it and I played with them a little. Eventually, I got some D&D books of my own and started my own group. Besides D&D, we played […]

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Interview with Micah Skaritka

Posted on May 21, 2004 by

Micah tells us the origins of the Obsidian: the Age of Judgement RPG and what some of his future plans are with the game. He also lets us know just what he is up to with the band Cruciform Injection.

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Interview with Robert Baxter

Posted on May 21, 2004 by

Robert Baxter tells us about his work on the Seventh Seal RPG from Creative Illusions and gives us a few ideas about some upcoming work.

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Interview with Richard E. Dansky

Posted on May 18, 2004 by

Rich talks to us about his work on Wraith: the Oblivion, Orpheus and other products from White Wolf Game Studio.

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Interview with Stefan Petrucha

Posted on May 6, 2004 by

Stefan tells us about writing Orpheus fiction, Vampire comic books and Hunter short stories.

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Interview with Kraig Blackwelder

Posted on May 6, 2004 by

Kraig tells us about his work on Orpheus, Time of Judgement and other World of Darkness books. He also talks horror gaming and some of his upcoming fiction projects.

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Interview with Matt Forbeck

Posted on May 3, 2004 by

Matt tells us about his work in RPGs, video games, comics, fiction and other projects. We talk a little bit about Brave New World, Deadlands and freelance writing as well.

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Interview with Author Bruce Baugh

Posted on May 3, 2004 by

Bruce talks to about writing the last of the Mage: the Ascension novels, developing the Mind’s Eye Theatre line of LARP products and lots of other dark and dreary projects.

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Interview with Sam Chupp

Posted on April 28, 2004 by

We talk to Sam about his work at White Wolf Game Studios in this interview and he tells us the ins-n-outs of good horror gaming.

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Munchkin Bites Card Game Review

Posted on April 1, 2004 by

In this latest edition of “Kill the Monsters, Steal the Treasure, Bite your Buddy” Steve Jackson paints a comedic look of horror gaming, LARP, cinema, and more!

The rules are similar to other games in the Munchkin line, but with a few notable differences. Players have races and powers instead of races and classes. The race cards are vampire, werewolf and changeling. All have special abilities and all are appropriate. Vampires suck levels off of other players, werewolves have an added +4 bonus against Demons and the Undead, and Changelings can choose what deck to choose from after combat.

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Dav Harnish, Author Interview

Posted on March 31, 2004 by

Game designer and horror author Dav Harnish tells us about his work on the Post-Apocalyptic RPG Obsidian: the Age of Judgement in this interview.

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Interview with Pat Loboyko

Posted on March 30, 2004 by

Pat tells us about his work on the Seventh Seal RPG and the Cyberpunk CCG. He also talks shop about art and design.

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Interview with Fred Hooper

Posted on March 23, 2004 by

Popular artist Fred Hooper tells us about his work on Shadowrun, Obsidian: the Age of Judgement and other games in this interview.

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Interview with Heather Grove

Posted on March 22, 2004 by

Heather Grove tells us a bit about her work on various World of Darkness RPGs from White Wolf Publishing and offers up a bit of advice for folks looking to get into the industry.

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Interview with John Tynes

Posted on March 17, 2004 by

John tells us about the development of Unknown Armies and even talks about his work on Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu.

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Interview with M. Alexander Jurkat

Posted on January 19, 2004 by

In this interview we talk about the All Flesh Must Be Eaten and Buffy: the Vampire Slayer RPGs.

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Interview with Sarah Roark

Posted on January 19, 2004 by

Sarah tells us about her work on the Dark Ages games for the World of Darkness and offers up some in-depth advice for the hopeful authors out there.

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Interview with Mark Bruno

Posted on December 31, 2003 by

In this interview Mark tells us about his work on the Unbidden RPG as well as other projects.

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Interview with Echo Chernik

Posted on December 30, 2003 by

In this interview artist extraordinaire Echo Chernik tells us about her work on various RPGs including Mage: the Ascension, Conspiracy X and Deleria.

She also gives us some insight into her inspirations and other bits about her art.

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Interview with Jackob Klunder

Posted on December 30, 2003 by

Freelance game designer and author Jackob Klunder tells us about his work on Dark Ages: Vampire and Vampire: the Masquerade.

He even gets in a bit about the upcoming ForumCon as well during our discussion.

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