Scrum in Miniature

I was fortunate to make Patrick Todoroff's acquaintance when we were both simply avid gamers who haunted some of the same online gaming forums. We found each other quite companionable in terms of the games we both enjoyed and our approaches to making them fun for ourselves and our respective game groups. Within a couple of years, though, all of that changed. Now Mr. Todoroff is a game designing maverick, churning out three games and multiple supplements for them in the past two to three years. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised given that he was a disciplined, prolific novelist before ever turning his pen to game design. That facility with narrative is likely one of the things that made us so simpatico in the gaming discussions we had online over the years. I was excited for Patrick when Osprey published his great Stalker -inspired Zona Alfa rules, and it seemed like it was no time at all before he'd published Exploit Zero (renamed from the original Hardwired as a resul...