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Failure Tolerated is a blog by Sean McCoy, co-founder of Tuesday Knight Games, co-designer of Two Rooms and a Boom, and designer of Mothership.
Why Setting High Stakes Matters
Stop Worrying About Layout Software
Can We Make This An Image? Designing Better Tables
A Small Rant About Investigation in RPGs
10 November 2021 - The Lost Bay Podcast interview with Sean McCoy
2 February 2021 - Thought Eater Humpday RPG Show with Special Guest Sean McCoy
17 June 2020 - DnDnQnA Ep 05 - Chris McDowall & Sean McCoy
8 June 2020 - Electric Bastionland Actual Play - The Droner House
18 May 2020 - Appendix N Podcast: Jack Vance’s “Star King” with special guest Sean McCoy
6 May 2020 - Electric Bastionland Commentary: Setting with Sean McCoy
27 April 2020 - Off the Shelf: Mothership's Sean McCoy
2 March 2020 - Game Mechanics: Sean McCoy, Meeting Players Where They Are
2 Feb 2020 - Mud & Blood #71: Sean McCoy Interview
8 May 2021 - Violent Encounters
4 August 2020 - Leveling Down
1 August 2020 - Heating Up
24 June 2020 - Learning to Crawl
16 December 2019 - Mawbreakers, Resource Management, and Combat Centric Gaming
31 October 2019 - A Crash Course on Marketing Your Indie RPG
26 August 2019 - Getting Better At RPG Twitter
6 August 2019 - Where Do We Go From Here?
19 July 2019 - Mothership, the ENnies, and A Pound of Flesh
16 March 2019 - Eleven Questions about Layout in RPGs
26 February 2019 - Mawbreakers: A Weird WW2 Para-shooter RPG
27 January 2019 - Building Custom Backgrounds for Mothership
23 January 2019 - My First Shootout
21 January 2019 - Stop Worrying About Layout Software
20 January 2019 - Painless Character Creation for a Painful Game
14 January 2019 - Why Setting High Stakes Matters
27 December 2018 - How to Create a Criminal
17 December 2018 - Rey Burtnolds Debriefing Communicades: Session Archive [Mothership]
13 December 2018 - A Small Rant about Investigation in RPGs
7 December 2018 - Better Crits for Mothership
6 December 2018 - Carousing & Stress in Mothership
9 November 2018 - Critical Hit Tables for Mothership
31 August 2018 - Divine Right: Minaria as a D&D Setting
29 July 2018 - How We Designed Dead Planet
8 May 2018 - Build a Dungeon, Level Up
23 April 2018 - Can We Make This an Image? Designing Better Tables
8 April 2018 - Mothership: Ship Creation Sheet
27 March 2018 - Lessons I Learned Designing the Mothership Character Sheet
5 March 2018 - The Hall of Sweet Mourning
1 March 2018 - Designing Heartbreaker, My Tactical Card Game
26 February 2018 - Urban Geomorphs for Cyberpunk Games
25 February 2018 - Equipment As Prestige Classes
24 February 2018 - Designing a Character Sheet for Castlevania
21 February 2018 - Simple Poison Rules for Old School Games
20 February 2018 - My House Rules for Weapons in OD&D
8 January 2018 - Heist: A Smash & Grab RPG
21 December 2017 - Isaac’s Basement
14 December 2017 - What Do The Monsters Want?
13 December 2017 - d20 Quick Cleric Religions
5 December 2017 - Building Better Magical Components
1 December 2017 - What Are the Guards Doing?
28 November 2017 - How to Make Treasure Interesting
22 August 2017 - The First Time We Played Mothership
21 August 2017 - Mistakes We Made at Gen Con 50
6 June 2017 - Survive, Solve, or Save: Pick Two
19 May 2017 - Removing Agency in Horror Games
10 March 2017 - Why Buc-ee’s Made Their Bathrooms Their Core Business Offering
24 February 2017 - Why We Tolerate Failure
8 June 2020 - Electric Bastionland Actual Play - The Droner House
18 May 2020 - Appendix N Podcast: Jack Vance’s “Star King” with special guest Sean McCoy
6 May 2020 - Electric Bastionland Commentary: Setting with Sean McCoy
27 April 2020 - Off the Shelf: Mothership's Sean McCoy
2 March 2020 - Game Mechanics: Sean McCoy, Meeting Players Where They Are
2 Feb 2020 - Mud & Blood #71: Sean McCoy Interview
4 March 2019 - Interview: Sean McCoy Talks Mothership, Dead Planet, Game Design and More!
7 June 2018 - Board With Life Adventures Plays Mothership
5 April 2018 - Board With Life Adventures Plays Heist
17 April 2017 - Pixels & Pieces: Production and Logistics with Sean McCoy
11 February 2016 - Pixels & Pieces: Prototyping and Design with Sean McCoy