Moe Lane's Blog, page 94
January 25, 2025
01/25/2025 Snippet, IRONGHOST.
I absolutely need to buckle down on this. Or maybe break it in half.
It took ten blocks and one hour for Nat to start feeling the thuds coming up from the ground, too. They were too irregular for machinery, and too powerful to be natural, which made both men automatically cautious and careful in their movements. Nat in particular knew that the Old Americans supposedly once said, If you don’t understand it, it’s dangerous. He had always privately thought that far too realistic to have really come from such a happy-go-lucky people, but truth was truth.
They also instinctively knew to be quiet. As they grew closer, the thudding from the ground had become a rattling in the walls, and the rattling was now a shivering of the earth. Whatever was here was not treading lightly.
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Book of the Week: The Sky People.
We’re finally getting the third volume of SM Stirling’s The Lords of Creation in June, so it’s time to revisit the series, starting with The Sky People. This is the Venus one. I’m not going to lie: it’s good, but In the Courts of the Crimson Kings (the Mars one) is better.
#commissionearned
Aiming for 125 followers on the FERMI RESOLUTION WORLDBOOK Backerkit by the launch date!
Obviously I want considerably more – five hundred would make for an excellent start, but right now I am at ninety-six, including me. If I get a good enough follower count on the Fermi Resolution Worldbook Backerkit, the company will consider helping to boost my signal, which would be awesome. Everybody who buys the game is a potential customer for my novels, after all. And vice versa.
So we’re plugging! Sign up to follow the project here. Back it on February 4th. Tell all your friends!
Tweet of the Day, …STOP IT. edition.
Stop it, or I’ll bury you alive in a BOX!
Today in manmade horrors beyond our comprehension: pic.twitter.com/XnyWyN5a0u
— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) January 25, 2025
January 24, 2025
I have the Sleep Madness.
I just… hit a brick wall. I blame the kids’ midterms, mixed with the weather. Everybody’s sleep patterns is for the birds. See you in the morning…
Map for the Fermi Resolution Worldbook adventure!
This actually… doesn’t look too bad, really. I’m using Campaign Cartographer 3 for this, because it has a black and white map option. It’ll honestly do for what I need it for, and I paid for the program years ago.
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January 23, 2025
‘This Too Shall Pass.’
This song lives in my head, but fortunately it’s a really good tenant.
This Too Shall Pass, OK Go
Somebody tell me I don’t need to spend the weekend…
…putting together a PDF of a campaign concept from a third-party RPG setting that nobody plays anymore. Especially since I don’t have the rights to do anything commercial with it, which means I cannot sell it. And I cannot in fact go get the rights, because I don’t have the money and would feel the need to ask yet more unwelcome questions that would be very ill-received. Tell me the smart idea is to work on something else.
Because I’ve been thinking about doing it anyway this evening. Like, a lot.
Shooting starts on James Gunn’s SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW.
More here. I actually picked up the complete SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW graphic novel, and I enjoyed it a great deal. Specifically, the aesthetic of it pushes my buttons: the artistic style evokes Flash Gordon / Art Nouveau in a way that I look at, and think ‘High Romance.’ I am very much looking forward to seeing if James Gunn saw the same things that I did, and if he can put it on the screen.
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PS: Seriously, the art is amazing. I kind of want to grab the book and stay up late to read it again.
Check out “The Wolfman of Westhaven” and my Fermi Resolution Worldbook Backerkit! Free!
All very cross-promotional, sure. I turned “The Wolfman of Westhaven” into a playtest adventure when I was working on the Fermi Resolution Worldbook, so it’ll do just as well as a stretch goal adventure. Thanks to the vagaries of what can be posted where, the story went up as a PDF on Patreon. Check it out! Check it all out.
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