Ben Robbins
I’m making it official: a new edition of Microscope is in the works. I’ve looked in my crystal ball, laid out my schedule, and set crowdfunding for October. If you’ve been following this blog, you know I’ve been working on improvements for Microscope for a few years now. Because I love it but I...
Ben Robbins
“I did, by the way, literally change my opinion on Microscope and this rule as I was writing this post, which was originally going to be a piece about how weird and bad this rule is” This is a great article by Nicholas aka omophagic_beast, having a lot of issues with Microscope, but then digging...
Ben Robbins
Want to listen to people playing games? Well you’ve got options, because folks out there are playing games of all shapes and sizes: Stormwrought Shores, The Emerald Bloodletting (Microscope: Chronicle): That’s the link to the first episode, but The Unexplored Places is already up to game three....
Ben Robbins
If you’re overseas (from me) and want to avoid the spiraling shipping costs, I’ve added Kingdom, Follow, and In This World to join Microscope on Lulu print-on-demand. I never went all-in on print-on-demand before, because back in the day the print quality I was seeing wasn’t that great, but the...
Ben Robbins
I just got the Chinese translation of Microscope, courtesy of Labyrinth. And woooow. It looks good. I’m not sure this picture really does it justice but it looks fantastic in person. Usually I ask translators to use the same design as the original book, to keep the look consistent, but the...
Ben Robbins
In the intro (which they recorded after the interview) Jason and Brad reflect on how we covered a wide range of topics, and let me tell you, they aren’t kidding. Dice In Mind (episode 159): Ben Robbins of Lame Mage (or listen on Apple Podcasts) We had a very fun, very interesting discussion about...