Hey, gang – I’ve recently had to face the hard fact that it’s a good time to retire my StarSpeed tabletop game project. It was a fun idea that I put a lot of work into developing – a tabletop[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Past: Eight of Swords (inverted): Release, liberation, freedom Present: The Magician (inverted): Scattered energy, not prepared, wasted potential Future: The Heirophant: Society’s expectations, the prescribed path Hm. Not sure what this one means, but the Present card definitely feels appropriate[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
2 of Cups (Inverted): Imbalance, Tension Queen of Wands: Courage, Determination, Joy Justice: Clarity, Truth Hm… This feels instructive to me. With courage and determination, tension and miscommunication can be overcome to reach the truth, maybe? I’m still learning. The[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Starting July 17th, TheGameCrafter.com will be hosting a Crowd Sale for the 8-Bit Tarot! With discounts beginning at 20% off, this sale will be a great time to pick up a deck for yourself AND for your Tarot-loving pals! The[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ace of Cups: The beginning of love, joy, beauty. Page of Wands (Inverted): Superficial, theatrical, unstable, bad news to come. Three of Swords (Inverted): Disorder, confusion, loss. Hm. Put these together, and it looks like a bad week to start[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thought of a new wrinkle to add to the Grave Robber 2.0 rules: Ghosts! Ghosts While digging graves you may uncover a Ghost! Use the Ghost to scare the Mourner from any graveyard. Simply return the ghost tombstone-side-up to the[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This summer TheGameCrafter is having a ‘Mint Tin’ design contest! They’re adding mint-tin style boxes as a game option, and they’re encouraging their designing community to come up with a game that will fit entirely in a tin. Compact and[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Tarot plug-in, developed by George Stephanis, makes use of WordPress’s new Gutenberg system for post and page layout. Just add a new ‘Tarot’ block to your post and it will generate a random 3-card spread! The default graphics are[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

My decades-old abstract strategy board game YIORA has just been updated over at TheGameCrafter.com! This new edition includes repositionable Throne chits (an upgrade from the static thrones of earlier editions), custom-designed chits to denote a Promoted piece, a full-color 8-page[…] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…