Planet Smasher Games

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…

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…

Rules Are Code, But Players Are Not Computers

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

Editing Wargames Rules

A common minor compliant from the community is that the Gaslands rulebook does…

Campaign System released!

The full campaign system for Gaslands is now available!

T minus 12 weeks

Red Alert! With Gaslands: Refuelled in the can, I am returning my full attention to A Billion Suns. Here’s the plan…

Zones Of Control

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

Movement Phase

Naval Gazing

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