Some of you seem to be enjoying my Neverland game for children, which you can find in the Downloads section. Jo Ann Montgomery tells me she likes it, but she wanted it in a smaller format than the PDF. She kindly took it upon herself to convert the file into text and reformat it. I’ve posted the RTF (Rich Text …

This Friday, February 27, I’ll be at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, appearing on a panel at the annual summit meeting for the Wisconsin Alliance for Arts Education. It’s at 1:30 PM in the Student Union. The topic is “What Do They Know About Learning, Kids, and Games?” Tim Gerritsen, my boss at Human Head Studios, will be there …

A while back, Jon Leitheusser (currently of WizKids) asked me to write an essay about my opinion of the d20 System. I did, and he published as the last page of issue #2 of his Campaign Magazine. I edited it a bit to bring it up to date, and “What I Think of the d20 System” is now available in …

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The awards season seems to have hit the adventure gaming industry full on. As I mentioned earlier, GameWyrd.com recently opened voting on its Weird GameWyrd Awards. The Redhurst Academy of Magic has been nominated as “The RPG or Supplement Most Likely to Spark the Imagination.” Also, Pen & Paper just announced that it’s taking votes for its Pen & Paper …

Wizards of the Coast recently asked me for an expanded bio to help them market The Secret of the Spiritkeeper, a new young adult novel I wrote for them that’s due out this August. I liked it better than what I had before, so I posted it here under my About Matt Forbeck link. There’s also a picture of me …

When Ryan Dancey set up the OGL and the d20 System license (which allows people to use the Dungeons & Dragons rules system for free), he relied on the idea that a game isn’t just a set of rules. It’s a network of people who know and play the game. When you buy a copy of a game, you’re buying …

GameWyrd.com just opened voting on its Weird GameWyrd Awards. The Redhurst Academy of Magic has been nominated as “The RPG or Supplement Most Likely to Spark the Imagination.” Since I developed and wrote most of the book for my day job at Human Head Studios, I’m kinda partial to it, so please stop by and vote!

I talk to lots of people in the adventure game industry. We chat about all sorts of things, but the conversation often turns to questions like, “How’s it going?” In this case, “it” usually means “sales.” The answer I hear most lately is, “Not so good.” This is particularly true of d20 publishers, which most major RPG companies (with a …

Work is going well this week. I just turned in a revision of my outline for the first novel in my Eberron trilogy for Wizards of the Coast. The first draft is due in early May, so I’m eager to get rolling on it soon. I wrote the first chapter when I pitched the books, and it was a blast. …