Hamish Cameron

Wellington, New Zealand

Hamish has been playing, designing and tweaking games since he discovered Fighting Fantasy gamebooks in the mid-80s. Most of that designing and tweaking has involved tabletop roleplaying games and miniatures wargames, but a few free-form larps and multiplayer team strategy games (now also known as "megagames") have snuck into the mix along the way. After a decade in Los Angeles, Maine, and other parts of the US, he is now back in Aotearoa. In addition to Ardens Ludere, he is part of the creative team at Cheeky Mountain Parrot Games.

Most commented posts

  1. The Sprawl v.0.2 — 15 comments
  2. Character Creation // Step 0 — 6 comments
  3. The Reporter — 5 comments
  4. Character Creation // Steps 3 & 4 — 4 comments
  5. Some News — 3 comments

Author's posts

May 30

The Tech

Since I released the alpha draft of The Sprawl a number of people have been kind enough to read, play and comment on the document. This week, I’ve started a fresh writing and editing pass to fix and add a number of things. One thing I worked on tonight was standarising the gear list, including …

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Feb 27

Better Action Through Currency

One area of play that I am conscious of streamlining or avoiding in The Sprawl is the planning paralysis phase that often seizes groups, particularly in Modern/Near Future/Sci-Fi settings. Another important Apocalypse World hack currently under development is The Regiment by Paul Riddle and John Harper (check it out, it’s awesome!). In considering how to …

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Feb 12

Crew-laborative Fiction

One of the aspects of our Conquering Corsairs Kickstarter project that I’m most excited about is presence of collaborative fiction authoring. At the Explorer ($15), Ship’s Mage ($55) and Crew Chief ($70) backer levels, or by adding $5 to the Sailor ($25) or Buccaneer ($45) levels, you get to contribute to the colour and backstory …

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Feb 04

Kickstarter is Go!

After many late nights and long weekends of crunching rules, juggling numbers, and playing for me, Rob and a host of playtesters and collaborators (especially David Gallo and Becky Sanderson), our creation is preparing to enter the world. I’ve designed, tweaked and hacked a lot of games for my own use over the years, but …

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Jan 11

First Batch NZIPA

It seems fitting that my first beer post, and one of my first posts on my new site, should include a picture of what amounts to a public test batch of one of my favourite beer styles, Epic Brewing‘s First Batch NZ IPA. I’ve had this domain for a while, and it’s needed a redesign …

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Jan 10

Fire

Another of my hobbies is fire staff spinning. When I buy gear commercially or want to find instructional videos, I go to Home of Poi. I also have a collapsible LED staff from Flowtoys.