During playtesting I kept hitting moments where you couldn’t just look up a rule and move on. You’d look up one thing, realise it depended on something else, and then find that depended on something else again. What should have

Copying the rulebook from Google Docs into Affinity Publisher has been slower than I expected. Part of that is the layout, and my perfectionism. But a big part is probably that I was a bit too eager when I first

While laying out the rulebook in Affinity Publisher, I’ve found a small issue with some of the Omen cards. Omens are passive effects. They sit there waiting for certain conditions: cards being discarded, cards changing hands, the board reaching a

It’s been a while since my last update, but I’ve been working on Nobles & Glory in a very different way. I’ve moved into layout and publishing using the free Affinity Publisher, and I’ve been surprised by how much I’m

I’ve hit a milestone with Nobles & Glory: the rules are at the point where only more playtesting will decide what changes next. After years of designing, rewriting, pruning and layering in the theme, the core rulebook, flavour text and

There’s a mechanic in Nobles & Glory that won’t get much attention in the rulebook, but once you notice it, you’ll see how much it shapes the game. It’s deckbuilding, though a slower, more organic kind than the market-row, custom-deck

Well, I thought I was nearly there. The rules were nearly in place, playtesting was going smoothly, and then, classic, I stumbled into an issue that’s going to set me back a bit. It turns out Nobles & Glory suffers