The Game Mechanic

Blade Bind is part of the current Anime Blast Bundle of Holding , which runs until June 26th. This is a great opportunity if you haven...

This week I've been pretty busy with freelance work, so I haven't made much progress on personal projects. So I figured I'd talk...

A few days ago I had a brainwave, and started working on a Blade Bind side-project — an automated duelling tutorial. Teaching the nua...

Hey, so it's been a while since I posted here! Once the Blade Bind Kickstarter concluded successfully, I was head-down finishing the w...

One of the intriguing things about Blade Bind is the way that the Blades influence play. They are sentient entities with their own personal...

The Blade Bind Kickstarter is on now, and runs until 27 October 2016! It's a bit of an unusual campaign, so I thought I'd talk a b...

I've been reviewing and revising Blade Bind over the last couple of weeks, having settled on an approach that addresses as many of the ...

I just released Blade Bind: Sword Practise , a FREE introduction to the card-based duelling system that forms the mechanical heart of Blade ...

Okay, that's not what the picture is actually of, but I recently locked down some of the major details in the way a game of  Blade Bind ...

It's my birthday today, and yet another attempt to run a face-to-face playtest of Blade Bind has fallen through (I think this makes fiv...

I finally managed an online playtest on the weekend, which I need to write about soon... But first, here's the next three Blade designs!...

Well I still haven't managed to play another session of  Blade Bind , although there's an online game scheduled this Sunday. In the ...

Well the face-to-face playtest didn't go ahead last night, but hopefully I can reschedule it in the next week or so. I should probably t...

Although I've been testing Blade Bind 's duelling mechanics fairly thoroughly with a number of "white-room" tests, I recen...

I'm still trying to get a couple of my Blade Bind playtesters together to go over the latest duelling draft, try out the character/dram...

Following on from my previous Blade Bind post , I've spent the last week-and-a-bit testing and refining the duelling rules, as well as ...

I'm currently working on the draft rules for a game called Blade Bind ; I mentioned it in my previous post , but to recap it's a GMl...

It's been a few months since I last posted here, but I'm hoping to revive the blog. Since releasing the PowerFrame Core Rulebook  I...