Dan Sumption's Blog, page 9

Peakrill on Facebook

 Just a quick post to say (a) I'm still alive (b) Peakrill now has a Facebook page - please give us a like - and (c) the Kickstarter for Mostly Harmless Meetings has just over a week left to run, please check it out and, if you like it, share it.

Got any questions about Mostly Harmless Meetings? Leave me a comment here.

Look Mum, I'm on Kickstarter!

 

Who's afraid of a toad?

I have just launched my first ever Kickstarter project, Mostly Harnless Meetings. It's a zine full of whimsical random encounters in the countryside, inspired by English flora, fauna and folklore. Here's a an example:

Oak: A circle of twisted, ancient oaks. The ground inside the circle, and the bottom halves of the tree, are covered in soft, thick moss an almost unnaturally bright green. This place has a good feeling about it, and would be an ideal spot to camp for the nig...

What We Have Left

Some time ago I wrote a series of short stories. Here is one of them. They will be published as a book, once they are edited. That should be some time before 2030.

If you would prefer to listen to the story (and I recommend that you do) you can hear me reading a slightly older version of it on my Soundcloud.

Here is What We Have Left:

And the forest, that never had been there before the night before, was all at once that morning there.

And they emerged, eleven women, eleven men, and Ash, and dropped...

FTFA*

* Fuck The Fucking Acronyms**
** Yes pedants, <whiny voice>it's an intialism not an acronym</whiny voice>. That's not how English works. My spell checker doesn't even recognise the word "initialism" and neither does 99% of the population

TL;DR - Old Man Shouts at Clouds

Ever since I rediscovered gaming and the OSR (which I always assume stands for Old School Rules, except it doesn't, but I can't grok*** what it does stand for because it seems folks can't agree on the R) there has been one aspect of...

When is a Coin not a Coin?

 

I just bought Luke Gearing's Wolves Upon The Coast campaign which includes a draft of his forthcoming supplement  &&&&& Treasure . This is a series of tables for generating treasure hordes, and alongside the expected entries for potions, wands, artefacts, etc, there is a "coins" table. I've written before about my dissatisfaction with the way money is conceived of in RPGs. So Luke's table brought a smile to my face, as it presents coinage as something much more than just some ubiquitous anonymous...