Zones Of Control

I recently introduced a small rule that totally changed the game.

Movement Phase

Rules Are Code, But Players Are Not Computers

Probably the biggest mistake I made in the text of Gaslands was treating the…

Naval Gazing

In researching A Billion Suns, I came across this review of Naval Thunder on DriverThruRPG:

Playtesting Tabletop Games

Gaslands went through 18 months of playtesting before I handed it over to Osprey. Partly, this was because the…

Keywords

Prior to having Gaslands out in the public domain, my rules writing was obsessed with keywords. This was rooted in my adjacent obsession with…

Collision Physics

Gaslands is a tabletop wargame in which heavily-armed vehicles career dangerous into either other, and high-speed collisions…

Game State

All games require you to hold some state in your head. The best games ensure that…

Learning from Demoing

I’ve probably demoed Gaslands to two hundred people at this point. After demoing the game that many times, you get a…