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Published 14 Apr, 2021
This is The Limit Break, a fortnightly column in which Kat Bailey explores all things RPG. It s also, sadly, Kat s last entry in the series. Congratulations to her on her new role.
A question that crosses my mind from time to time is why there aren’t more horror RPGs. Certainly, RPGs are more than capable of generating psychological terrors, and horror games are as popular as they’ve ever been. But outside of a handful of classics like Sweet Home, System Shock 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, it remains a fairly under-developed area within the genre.
It was the greatest speech he ever gave in his life , and it marked a turning point in his pursuit of his dream, but it had the note of a eulogy. This is the story of how and why the legendary designer Chris Crawford left the games industry in an opening-day lecture at the 1993 Game Developers Conference, an event that he had founded just six years prior.
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