I hung out with the Happy Little Screamers recently, and we taped it. In this hour-long convo we drifted over a range of topics including game design theory, RPG rules & settings, fractopian fiction, cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, anachronistic stone-soup omnipunk,...
In December 2020 I was invited by Lev Lafayette to speak at the "Year of the Stainless Steel Rat" conference on Cyberpunk. My special area of expertise, of course, was tabletop roleplaying games. In my address I traced the history of the genre as it intersected with...
New from As If Books... The LUMINARIUM series explores eternal spiritual themes in a galaxy-spanning future empire straight out of the Golden Age of science fiction. Author Rick Rosenkranz blends faith and science in an exciting and fast-paced romp through a colorful...
Since March of 2017 the DayTrippers campaign at Legends of Tabletop has been a monthly event, with regular podcasts streaming live on YouTube, and edited audio versions (complete with sound effects thanks to host/producer John Haremza) archived at SoundCloud. These...
This is an interview I gave last year to Tamra Lucid for RealitySandwich, a site whose future is uncertain - not unlike our own. #UbiquiCity #Fractopia #Futurism #Utopia #Dystopia #Cyberpunk Gaming the Near Future: An Interview with RPG Creator Tod Foley by Tamra...
I was recently a guest (for the second time!) on one of my favorite podcasts - Fictoplasm - for a discussion with Ralph Lovegrove, who did a great job of making sure I hit all the important bullet points despite my discursive nature. Topics include... • What is...
I'm proud to have been involved with this book (as its editor), and THRILLED to see Deirdre Dore getting the attention she deserves! NOW TRENDING ON AMAZON'S INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER LIST? Why, it's "Living Nightmare" by D.M. Dore! :-D...
It's usually a bad idea to show internal conflict by jumping from "A" to "Not A" and back again in repeated succession. That doesn't make your character feel any more ambivalent than just doing it once. But it makes your thrust unclear, it feels like needless padding,...
Today's the day! You can now pre-order your copy of LIVING NIGHTMARE here: https://dmdore.com/other-side-of-gifted I am proud to have been involved with this book, editing the words of the very gifted Deirdre Dore, who promises us a unique series of paranormal and...
UbiquiCity Book 2 "Undercurrents" has arrived. Return to the Fractopian Future! Stories by Irene Bassett, Brad Cole, D.M. Dore, Jens Durke, S.L. Koch, G. Dean Manuel, Adrian McCauley and Rick Rosenkranz paint a collaborative picture of our augmented future that is...
The transgressive, bizarre and mind-expanding work of inter-dimensional crime drama LIQUID HITLER by S. L. Koch, published by As If Books. Now available in trade paperback from Amazon!
UbiquiCity Book 2: "Undercurrents" is in layup after a misstep with the original artist (the piece used some unlicensed content which I was unable to procure permissions for). So I commissioned a new cover from KHIUS (the artist who did the cover of the first book),...