I had a great time on Mortality Radio last night. Many thanks to Adlon and Smaug for inviting me on, and even more thanks to those kind souls who showed up to listed and pepper me with questions. That’s a wonderful group of people there, doing something positive for the adventure gaming industry. My favorite part of the show was …

I’ll be on Mortality Radio this Friday, January 23. The show starts at 8 PM EST, and I should be on sometime around 9 PM. If you have the time, stop by and join in. The show takes questions both on the air and via IRC (Internet Relay Chat). If you can’t make it, visit the site the following week. …

Once upon a time, I got a call from John Nee at WildStorm Productions. They wanted to produce a collectible card game, but they knew nothing about how to pull it off. Jim Lee and Drew Bittner had gotten together and designed a first draft, but they wanted a professional’s opinion about it. John got my name from Martin Stever, …

I went back to freelancing right after I left Pinnacle at the end of 1999. I worked for a lot of different companies, including the fine people at Atlas Games. I wrote a section of En Route for them, as well as the whole of Seven Cities. Michelle Nephew did a bang-up job editing both books, pushing me to make …

If you stopped by this morning, you might have seen that Forbeck.com wasn’t here. My domain registrar failed to renew my domain name on time, despite the fact I paid the fee weeks ago. Still, they made things right and got it ironed out within hours of me noticing it, so we’re back up and running again. Whew!

Last week, T.S. Luikart (I assume—he’s the only T.S. I know outside of the long-dead poet Eliot) rightfully pointed out that you should examine your potential output before you decide to make the leap to full-time freelancing, if that’s what you’re after. I dug around in my files a bit and found the old article I’d written on just that …

The fine folks at Mortality Radio asked me to appear on an upcoming show, and I was too stunned to try to weasel out of it. I’m scheduled to be on the January 23 show, which starts at 8 PM EST. More details as I have them.

The New Year is a time for looking both back and forward, for seeing how you’ve done and making plans for doing better. One of my resolutions this year (as I mentioned before) is to make regular updates to this site. So far, so good, although the year’s just starting now, so we’ll have to see how it all plays …

A few of the people who stopped by the site were kind enough to post notices about the site’s launch on their own sites. It’s the kind of thing you do for friends, which I then realized I hadn’t bothered to do myself. So, if you look to your right, you should see a new “Friends” link that gives details …

The impending release of the new, live-action Peter Pan movie inspired me to dig deep into the darkest parts of my computer’s hard drive. There I found a rough, uncut gem from my past that I thought I’d share with you as a kind of Christmas present. Once upon a time (back in 1991), a game company by the odd …