In preparation for running a Kickstarter, I’ve been planning on giving some copies of No Honor Among Thieves to friends who’ve moved to far-away cities for some blind playtesting. After that I’m planning on sending copies out to reviewers, so that it’s not just one guy and his friends saying that the game is good […] Read more
After consulting with some forum threads, my fellow local game designers and a graphic designer I know, I’ve settled on this design for the final prototype. The graphic designer I’ve been working with suggested including a printout of potential alternate styles in the review copies I send out before the Kickstarter, and I think that’s […] Read more
I got some feedback from a few people who’s opinions I respect after my last post. Everyone agrees that the Character card is good, but there were plenty of suggestions as to how to improve the Defense template, specifically in regards to the bars behind the different icon sets that represent the different defense challenges. […] Read more
I’ve been working on the final card templates for No Honor Among Thieves. It’s been a long road getting to this point, but I think we’ve finally reached what the cards in the printed game are going to look like. Below you can see both a Character and a Defense. The interactions of these two […] Read more
It’s amazing how much of a difference some good art can make. You may have already noticed the new logo in the banner area of this page (if you’re reading this in the blog excerpt, click on the Read More link). That’s the new logo for the game, painted for me by artist Larisa Angheloni based […] Read more
I am currently commissioning artists to create artwork for example cards to use as demonstrations of what I want them to look like before I run the Kickstarter. I’m also looking for artists to do banners and potentially box art as well. I’m hoping to get a loose, sort of speed painter type of style; […] Read more
Couple of things. First, after the feedback from posting the rules to the game and a couple more playtests, I’ve gone and updated the current rules I have publicly available for No Honor Among Thieves. Things should be clearer, some edge cases have been added into the rules, and it is no longer possible for […] Read more
Here it is. The rules for No Honor Among Thieves, a card game of fantasy heists. Quite a lot of this I am planning on replacing with diagrams and other imagery, but I would love commentary on the current version. If anything is unclear or could be simplified at all, please let me know. The […] Read more
Carnage of the Lost World has happened, and I have returned home exhausted, with pages of notes on rule changes and suggestions. The balance of the cards seemed good, but I think I’ll be experimenting with changing the number of daggers on the die, and possibly increasing the recruitment costs of the top-level character cards […] Read more
I took a lot of the feedback I got on my work-in-progress Objective design for No Honor Among Thieves and turned it into a prototype design that I like a lot more. With any luck I should be ready to send these off to the printer early next week or–if all goes well–this weekend. Give […] Read more
