2019 March: TAG Bites: Cold Shadows - Vignettes

Super grateful to have had an awesome TAG Bites session of Cold Shadows today. Thank you to Lanz, for being the empathetic turncoat Analyst, Titus for being the former KGB sleeper agent with a heart, Cjmn for being the deputy Director who tried valiantly to save the agency, and to the new player Ron, who was the Hitter without Resolve (and allowed me the honor of running his second rpg session ever). Sadly, Titus had to rush off before we took a photo.

To more double agent shinanigans soon!

Alan Bahr talks about Cold Shadows for Tabletop Radio Hour

Alan Bahr shared tremendously kind words about my role in Cold Shadows and I truly am appreciative of his support and appreciation of my work.  Listen in and check out what we have in store for you all in the games we have planned.

Thank you, Tabletop Radio Hour!

Today is February 2, 2017

Cold Shadows has hit 15k, which means it has unlocked all its stretch goals.
Bad Timing was first released last year on this day, in many ways formally giving birth to TAG Sessions as a publishing line.
I submitted a lecture proposal to the Casual Connect Singapore game summit.
Might have a talk as well coming March for a techno exhibit.
Rocky and I watched the fabulous O Divas perform and show Alaska Thunderfuck how we do drag here in the Philippines... well, more on here at O bar, which is a totally new level entirely.
And a few friends are celebrating their birthdays today.

Yeah, February 2 is good.

Life is good.

One must learn to choose his battles.  And to count his blessings.

Cold Shadows on Kickstarter has just launched! Whooo hoo!

Cold Shadows is a tabletop roleplaying game built on the ruleset developed in Blood & Honor by John Wick Presents and World of Dew by Woerner Wunderwerks. Cold Shadows is a narrative tabletop role-playing game where the rules are focused on telling a dynamic, personal and compelling story. The game is set in a taut world of espionage, betrayal, and drama inspired by the great spy stories of authors such as John Le Carre and Robert Ludlum.

Cold Shadows is written to evoke the feeling of the Cold War era of spies both in modern and historical context. The game can easily be used to tell espionage stories in any 20th and 21st century time-frame. 

Cold Shadows will have the following in the core game:

• Rules for playing as high-level operatives in an Agency
• Rules for one player and one Narrator
• Rules for Narrator-less play
• A chapter on generating your Field of Operations with rules that impact your Agents
• Chapters on fighting styles
• Information about historical and modern espionage organizations
• A chapter on women in the Cold War and espionage cinema
• And much more! Expansions and stretch goals will include rules systems that allow you to tell stories like Bond, Mission Impossible, and even xXx or Get Smart.

This game is being written by Alan Bahr and Ben Woerner, with a talented team of freelancers aiding the primary writers. At the onset, we have Tobie Abad and Elizabeth Chaipraditkul writing on the project with us. As we unlock stretch goals, we'll be adding more talent and authors to this game! 

The Publisher of this game is Nocturnal Media, which recently bought out Gallant Knight Games, and will be distributing and publishing Cold Shadows! The Kickstarter was already prepped and built on the Gallant Knight Games account, so we decided to launch it from here. Nocturnal Media does own Gallant Knight Games, so this imprint will bear the Nocturnal logo and have access to all those resources!

The Kickstarter, as of this writing, has reached $3,620 within the first two hours.  Hope you opt to back the game and support it!    Check out the Kickstarter today!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gallantknightgames/cold-shadows-narrative-espionage-roleplaying

Victory Condition Gaming talks about Cold Shadows

The Kickstarter for Cold Shadows is launching at the end of this month, and I'm extremely grateful to be part of that project.  Alan Bahr, the brains behind the game, was interviewed on Victory Condition Gaming and even mentioned me, which is super awesome.

Hope you all support Cold Shadows when it launches this January!