The official solicitation for the Godzilla book for the Marvel Multiverse RPG is out! It says: MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME: GODZILLA WRITTEN BY MATT FORBECK, MARTY FORBECK AND PALLIE PAUL ALLOR COVER BY PACO MEDINA & JESUS ABURTOV • ART BY IG GUARA

Happy anniversary to my wonderful and beautiful wife, Ann! We got married in my dad's backyard 34 years ago today, and it was literally the best thing that ever happened to me — and led to many other fantastic things too.

BIG NEWS! The King of the Monsters invades the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game this November!

One of my kids bought a 45 at an estate sale the other day, and I had to explain to them what this is.

Those Canadian wildfires are turning the Northwoods into a smoke-shrouded hellscape. These are the current conditions near our family cabin. Stay safe out there, folks!

Gamers! I'm going to be a guest at EGG Con next week in beautiful Lake Geneva. Unfortunately, I can only make it out for Thursday and maybe Friday, so catch me when you can. I hope to see you there!

Gamers! If want to play the Marvel Multiverse RPG with me at Gen Con, most of my sessions are sold out — but there are still 3 tickets left on Thursday at 2 and 5 tickets left on Friday at noon. Grab them before they're gone!

Gamers! If you're going to be at Gen Con on Sunday, come watch my kids play in their annual Andrew Hackard Memorial Munchkin Game. Tickets are $12, with all proceeds going to benefit The Diana Jones Award Foundation.

Happy Free RPG Day! Hit your friendly local gaming store for a free copy of the Marvel Multiverse RPG Secret Wars Expansion preview, which includes an adventure by Jesse Scoble and Devinder Thiara!

The lineup here is so much better than what is going to happen in DC on the 4th. Just wild.

This new adventure for the Marvel Multiverse RPG is slated to hit stores on September 22. It's 64-pages, comic book-sized, and it features an opening comic scripted by Cody Ziglar and a complete adventure by me. I had a great time working on it, and I can't wait for you to play it!

He handed me the text —which he'd handwritten on vellum — and flat out told me he was nervous that I would mangle it. I was only 21 at the time, but that taught me quickly that my job as an editor wasn't to impose my voice on his work but help him clarify his own — which was brilliant.

I'm sad to hear that the legendary grimdark artist John Blanche has left us. I worked with John when I was at Games Workshop some 36 years ago, and I actually edited his first art book, RATSPIKE.

Last Sunday, we adopted his little ball of fur. Best we can tell, she's a two-year-old Yorkie/Affenpinscher mix, but either way she's clearly 100% adorable fun. Welcome to the household, Betty!

It's true!

This weekend, my son Pat and his fiancé Emily brought home a 3-month old puppy! She has wild eyes (one brown and one bright blue) and is named Daisy. She's already making herself at home and brightening the place up.

Under Siege is sadly way down the list. However, for that other thought experiment, I'd read this comic:

Gamers! The Kickstarter for THE CATS OF NEW ORLEANS — designed by me and my sons Marty and Pat — ends tomorrow. It's fully funded and striving for stretch goals. Go check it out, and please spread the word too. Thanks!

This great new book showed up in my mailbox yesterday, in both the basic paperback and the expanded hardcover editions. These are the fantasy version of the Open Adventure Core Rules, by my pal @marctassin.bsky.social

Readers! My friends Jesse Scoble and Devinder Thiara — who've written great stuff for the Marvel RPG — are running a Kickstarter for the next two issues of their weird west comic book, DEAD MONEY. I loved the slow burn of the first issue, and this is where those sparks start to scorch.

The Kickstarter for THE CATS OF NEW ORLEANS (which I designed with my sons Marty and Pat) is knocking down stretch goals left and right. Check it out fast. This drive ends in 3 days. Thanks!

THE CATS OF NEW ORLEANS Kickstarter is double-funded! Thanks to all the backers out there for your support! We still have 10 days and plenty of stretch goals to go — including this figure for the Stinkers: skunks working for the vermin army, stinking up the whole town!

I just finished reading an advanced copy of @billschweigart.bsky.social's upcoming novel, DIRTY 20. As a game designer and someone who loves tales of organized crime, this book seems almost purpose-written for me.

In all of yesterday’s hubbub over the Kickstarter for The Cats of New Orleans — which funded in under six hours, thanks! — I forgot to mention that yesterday was also the release date for The Game Master’s Book of Magic & Mayhem for Kids.

Gamers! The new game I designed with my sons Marty and Pat just launched on Kickstarter this morning, and it's already nearly funded. Go check it out, and join in on the fun!

One of the greatest parts of THE CATS OF NEW ORLEANS (a tactical combat game coming to Kickstarter on Tuesday) is the fact that we got to include a character based on my dog Simon, who passed away earlier this month at nearly 16 years old. Meet the grizzled former Union soldier Simon Beloit!

The legendary game designer, distributor, and publisher Louis Zocchi has left us at the age of 91. He founded Zocchi Distribution (the first distributor dedicated exclusively to hobby games) and Gamescience (which made games and polyhedral dice).

Lots of tornado sirens this evening. This one went just south of us. Stay safe out there, Wisconsin!

Gamers! My sons @martyforbeck.bsky.social and Pat and I have been working on a tactical tabletop game with @rayboxgames.bsky.social called THE CATS OF NEW ORLEANS, and it's coming to Kickstarter! Get on the pre-launch list for an alert the moment it launches on April 21.