Game playability is a vital concept which most current game designers understand and practice. Unfortunately, Most focus on system playabili...

I am running a StarCluster 3 game on Thursday nights with Tim Kirk (Silverlion), his wife, and John, both of whom comment here on this blog....

In StarCluster 2E, and carryed forward in no other game I ever designed, I introduced a concept called metaskills. Metaskills were an attemp...

Had our first full-on playtest of StarNova Sunday. By that I mean creating characters intended for StarNova and playing exclusively with it,...

I just sent out Beta version 3 of StarCluster 3. It adds a number of new things, fixes some small problem areas in chargen, clarifies some t...

An Implant for StarCluster 3. Echolocator Lifestyle: Rich Time Cost: 1 month - to get used to the slight unavoidable delay in data capture...

I started the first of my IRC StarCluster 3 games Sunday. It was a building session, deciding all kinds of things. The players decided they ...