"Calming Hands" - A Single Moment actual play

Only saw this actual play of A Single Moment + Reflections. It was nice seeing how they approached the game and enlightening to see how they were able to infuse more meaning to the story!

Thank you for playing it!

The Duelists (Reflections)

Another awesome session using Reflections. As per the site:
This player-versus-player, improvised one-shot is run using the Reflections system, which is based off of the RPG "A Single Moment" (by Tobie Abad). Gotta love how people can find ways to make a game even more awesome. Thank you for playing!

Highlander: There can only be One

It is always nice to see people enjoying games. More so when in one way or another, the games they are playing were inspired in some way by things you were part of.

As per their site:
This is a single-elimination style tournament, starting with eight Immortals. Each session will discover the story of two such beings, through their history with one another... and the duel that forever ends their relationship. This player-versus-player RPG series will be run using the Reflections system, which is based off of the rpg "A Single Moment" (by Tobie Abad).



Catch the full playlist here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJl5C605FTPYh93r8JMl4Yl6BZetpomxL

Reflections has John Wick

John Wick is now part of Reflections.

I still have trouble accepting this has truly happened.  John Wick's work inspired me in many ways. I loved his Legend of the Five Rings. I adored his Houses of the Blooded.  I was amazed with Blood and Honor.  And I told myself, I must write. I must embrace all the inspiration and challenge it into creating something I can give back to the gaming community.

A Single Moment was born.

Then Jim fell in love with my tiny game, and we talked and debated, and in the end realized the world can be a far better place with the gaming community having the opportunity to play both my game and Reflections, his incarnation of the Dueling Samurai game idea I had for A Single Moment.
And now, John Wick is going to write for Reflections.
The world is insanely awesome, I tell you.

It is.

Reflections has Kenneth Hite!

With still 20 days to go, Reflections has broken the 10k mark which means Kenneth Hite, the mastermind behind the Gumshoe System, the author of the Suppressed Transmissions column, and the of lovely World of Darkness books such as the Cainite Heresy and the fantastic Mage: The Sorceror's Crusade, has been unlocked as one of the guest writers for the game.  Up next, at 12.5k is John Wick. Man, to have John Wick write for something I inspired.   That would be super multiple shades of awesome.

While Reflections is not my baby, I still feel tremendously happy to see the success the game has gotten.  While it moves towards narrative gaming more than A Single Moment, it still shares much of the structure and idea behind the game (with the starting scene framing the final fight, then working back towards it with multiple smaller scenes).  I've seen some comments about getting inspired to play the game using Avatar the last Airbender and the like and I will admit I feel a bit sad these same people never discovered ASM earlier, I do still feel happy that they will nonetheless have a free copy of my game as a reward and have the option to play either version of the rules they desire.

I feel sad though that locally, no one has really taken notice as far as local bloggers are concerned of this success.  One would think there would be some joy in seeing a local game designer being part of a game that's gaining some notice, but I guess everyone's just focused on other geek stuff - there are a lot of news coming out after all with the San Diego Comic Con and all that jazz.   I wouldn't like to think no one thought to celebrate it.  I first noticed the silence after landing a gig writing for 7th Sea, 2nd edition.  But I took it as merely a matter of the word not spreading out as much yet.  Now, I'm not quite sure anymore.  Maybe there are other elements involved.  Or maybe people just don't like me.

Anyway, I guess things will just be clearer upon reflection.   As far as I'm concerned, I'm celebrating.  My friend Meloy put it nicely when she reminded me to just celebrate and be proud of what I've achieved.  In the end, I'm celebrating facts.

Reflections has Funded!

Congratulations to Third Act Publishing for the successful Kickstarter launch.  The game has now funded and it can only get more awesome!  Here's hoping more people support the project to unlock the bonus stuff to be done by Kenneth Hite, John Wick and Ben Woerner!

WOOT!
For those interested in further supporting this game, do head on to the Kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/496783700/reflections-a-game-of-dueling-samurai

REFLECTIONS is live!

Third Act Publishing has launched the Kickstarter for Reflections, a two-player RPG about samurai that will duel to the death.    If that sounds familiar, that's because Jim McClure's passion for samurai games is taking my tiny work called A Single Moment to a whole new direction and evolution.

The project has already hit 40% in barely a few hours since the launch.  And I'm excited to see if it hits the higher tiers where gaming idols of mine such as John Wick, Kenneth Hite, and Ben Woerner take a stab and write for the game too.  Who would have thought people I looked up to in the gaming industry would someday be possibly writing for something that got inspired by my own work?

So yeah, if you want to support the project please head on down to Kickstarter and do so today!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/496783700/reflections-a-game-of-dueling-samurai

Third Act Games: Reflections Announcement!

The word is out!  Read about the upcoming game, Reflections, here.
Third Act Publishing is launching its Kickstarter on the 19th of July!
Hope you all will be willing to support it.

What is my role in this project? How does it relate to A Single Moment?
I'll leave it for you guys to find out.  Check out the podcasts for some idea of it.

You can also listen to Second Watch and he excitedly talks about it as well around the 1:13:00 mark.
I'll leave it at that for now