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Finally Falkenstein!

Thursday, 28. May 2009, 23:17:50

My Castle Falkenstein website is finally crawling into the light.

There's not an awful lot of content on there yet. There is some patented pete-pencil-crayon-orama art, that I did last June, slapped on the main banner. A couple of brief biographies of two important characters from the pilot episode, some colour text telling the back story of the pilot, and that's about it. Subscribe to this rss feed if you want the latest articles as they happen.

Coming soon (where soon equals within six months) will be a full FAQ for players of the game, and further bios of pilot episode characters. I also hope to knock up a map of Falkenstein Brighton.

Pilot Episode! late this year. Or late next year. :king:

Anyone spots any huge howling spelling or layout errors let me know, although if you're still using Internet Explorer 6 or lower -
  • Yes, I know.
  • There is something I'll be trying to pacify IE 6 luddites, who, in the meantime, should consider this site.

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Pictures from the past

Wednesday, 20. August 2008, 23:35:57

Stumbled, by chance, on this remarkable website of photographs of Brighton and Hove from years gone by. James Gray's collection shows Brighton from the dawn of photography right up until the nineteen eighties, and it is endlessly fascinating.

The Chain Pier. The terraces that lined the New England Street area. A remarkable shot across Preston Park, with Beaconsfield Villas part built in the background. And so on.

We owe Gray a huge debt for his work, and he deserves more civic recognition than just a name on an Omnidekka.

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Gray's collection has been most useful in researching Old Brighton for the forthcoming Castle Falkenstein game. Eugenius Tettersell, patron of our group of dashing Victorian Heroes, lives in Brighton, quite possibly in Fairlie Place on Surrenden Road. The pilot episode starts in Brighton, and moves on to High Society Balls And Parties in Paris. Please dress to impress.

The start date is slipping well into 2009, though. I hope to have a website up by the end of the year, with an audio trailer which should give you an idea of the sort of Prussian Bounder you might be up against.

We now have a semi-decent microphone for the game table. Tests of Skype-ing WFRP to Popey will start next time he can't turn up in person. If this works, one or two CF players could join us from many miles away...

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Selling lead to nine year olds

Friday, 8. February 2008, 00:27:55

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Congratulations to Ken who wrote most of The Edger's Altcult book for R. Talsorian Games, soon to be out in physical as well as digital form. Ken's one of the ensemble who brings my game to life, when he isn't busy penning RPG books, and he and I have dreamt up some storylines that should keep us all entertained well into 2009.

Sadly, though, WFRP is a dead game again. Games Workshop pulled the plug (see also 1992) on their role-playing division, Black Industries. GW share price at rock bottom, Suits cut back the marginal areas, same old, same old.

Much heartbreak in the RPG world, then, and, of course, the community will keep the game alive, just as in the nineties, so it wont really die. Forums and fansites and fanzines. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay forever!

Except that, in all likelyhood, Games Workshop will scuttle in and hold their precious Intellectual Property close, the books will vanish from the shops again, and the chances of anyone new finding the grim world of perilous adventure will be slim.

R. Talsorian keep their out of print games alive in electronic form, including the spiffing Castle Falkenstein, one of the most inspirational single RPG rulebooks ever written. Still available, and I'm working on a Falkenstein pilot for later in the year.

Confirmed so far:
  • Alternate 1870's Brighton
  • A traitor fleeing to Paris with Top Secret Documents
  • A masked ball in the french capital
And, it says here...

Which one of these two-dozen New Europa beauties is the Prussian agent?


In other news, despite this blog turning into a bit of a geek-fest, I've been fairly busy out in the real world. Which has been nice. :D

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