Tonight, I finished season one of the Blades in the Dark game that I’ve been running for my friends in Seattle since January. This campaign saw our gang, a group of shadowy thieves known as the Slug Street Crowd, advance from ambitious petty criminals to the ward bosses of the Crow’s Foot district, tangling with […] Read more
I recorded both of these over the past couple of weeks. Parts two and three of my example making a city with Crooked Alleys. Part two is sitting around giving things names, and part three is an overview of why I put stuff in different places on the map that I threw together. Read more
While working to deliver No Honor Among Thieves and playtesting Station Nine, I’ve also been working on a tabletop game book with random tables, rules, and advice for running games of criminals in fantasy cities. I’ve decided on a name now, after my earlier troubles with the subject, and the book itself is almost finished, […] Read more
At the request of certain backers who prefer to learn how to play a game from someone explaining it to them rather than reading the rulebook, I’ve put together a set of how-to-play videos for No Honor Among Thieves. They’re a lot longer than I expected they’d be, because as I was making them I […] Read more
All of the Kickstarter copies of the game have been delivered, and those that haven’t have been sorted out and sent on their way. As such, No Honor Among Thieves is formally available for retail purchase. Find the official press release below. Seattle, WA – June 6, 2018 Carpe Omnis Games has announced the retail […] Read more
In May 2014 I was in the shower in my college apartment a week or two before graduation, thinking about card games and the books I’d been reading lately. While I was cleaning off I had an idea for the basic mechanics of a card game about fantasy heists with similar themes to the book […] Read more
I haven’t been posting much on this blog of late–most of my writing time has been going towards new games and books that I’m working on and hoping to publish, or towards writing updates to the Kickstarter backers of my first published board game, No Honor Among Thieves. Between those projects, and my new full-time job […] Read more
I am, it turns out, super bad at naming things. Or super good, maybe, seeing as the issue is that other people keep having the same ideas. Great minds supposedly think alike, after all. Back when I was developing No Honor Among Thieves, I ran into a bit of a problem where someone else started […] Read more
Things I’ve noticed in a month living in Seattle after having moved here from Vermont for a new job: There are way, way more people who smoke here. In any given day in Seattle I’ll see more smokers than I did in a year in Burlington. The temperature peaks noticeably later in the day. I’m […] Read more
Had some site downtime today due to me not updating the SSL certificate properly. We’re back online now though, and things should continue running smoothly. Apologies to anyone who tried to access the site during that time. Read more
