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May 31, 2017
Boldly Go Character Art: Part 3
Four crewmembers down. Five to go. Let's talk about two more of them here, shall we?
For those of you who forgot, all of the art in Boldly Go! is being drawn and inked by the fabulous Dave Woodward of Badgerlord Studios. I am sure that Dave would be happy to take your money and draw for you, so drop him a message or something if you are so inclined.
Character number five is none other than
For those of you who forgot, all of the art in Boldly Go! is being drawn and inked by the fabulous Dave Woodward of Badgerlord Studios. I am sure that Dave would be happy to take your money and draw for you, so drop him a message or something if you are so inclined.
Character number five is none other than
May 11, 2017
The RPG Character Library: Gamma World 3rd Edition
At least, I think it's 3rd Edition.
I decided to jump from the earliest edition of this game (Metamorphosis Alpha) to the most recent version of the game that I own (and also, the only other version of the game that I own), to see what had changed and what had remained the same.
The short-short version is: The rules are better. It feels like it's a much better thought out game and game world. A
I decided to jump from the earliest edition of this game (Metamorphosis Alpha) to the most recent version of the game that I own (and also, the only other version of the game that I own), to see what had changed and what had remained the same.
The short-short version is: The rules are better. It feels like it's a much better thought out game and game world. A
May 1, 2017
Boldly Go Character Art: Part 2
As previously mentioned, Dave Woodward; from Badgerlord Studios, is slaving away over a hot Bristol board to finish up some high-quality art for Boldly Go.
In this installment of the art-o-blog, we have two more portraits of the crew of the SFS Oswego.
Our third crewmember is Mott'trog, a mordon from Gajwanbex II, an extremely dense planet that orbits a dying, red giant star. Because they
In this installment of the art-o-blog, we have two more portraits of the crew of the SFS Oswego.
Our third crewmember is Mott'trog, a mordon from Gajwanbex II, an extremely dense planet that orbits a dying, red giant star. Because they
April 17, 2017
The RPG Character Library: Metamorphosis Alpha
I've always been a fan of the genre in which an apocalypse turns a far-future society into post-apocalyptic fantasy. There's just something about it that seems really cool and interesting. I had high hopes that the Covenant LARP (a game explicitly set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world) would turn into Gamma World. Or, at least, Metamorphosis Alpha.
You've been on a giant worldship this entire
You've been on a giant worldship this entire
April 13, 2017
The RPG Character Library: Powers & Perils
Spoilers for the following post: Remember how much trouble I had with FASA Star Trek? This game was at least an order of magnitude worse. This game broke me. I didn't finish character creation.
Powers & Perils is a game by Avalon Hill. It reads like a tax form. I would imagine that you could create very diverse, unique characters with this game, but the granularity that the average player is
Powers & Perils is a game by Avalon Hill. It reads like a tax form. I would imagine that you could create very diverse, unique characters with this game, but the granularity that the average player is
April 5, 2017
Chaos Eclipse: Part Three
The third and final installment of the Twilight/Beautiful Creatures/NCAA 2017 fanfic requested by Meg.
This was fun! Hooray!
It was Edward's hardest basketball game ever, and, in a way, it was also the most fun.
He had no
idea what the crowd, or what the people watching the game at home on TV, were
seeing, but he guessed it wasn’t anything like what was actually
This was fun! Hooray!
It was Edward's hardest basketball game ever, and, in a way, it was also the most fun.
He had no
idea what the crowd, or what the people watching the game at home on TV, were
seeing, but he guessed it wasn’t anything like what was actually
April 4, 2017
New Darkness: Part Two
In which the fan-fiction on Meg's behalf continues...
Edward had
played baseball for almost as long as the game had existed. Okay, that was an
exaggeration, but still, he’d played a lot of baseball. Unfortunately, the
baseball tryouts weren’t until spring, and Edward couldn’t imagine playing the
game with anyone other than his family.
He didn’t
quite know why he
Edward had
played baseball for almost as long as the game had existed. Okay, that was an
exaggeration, but still, he’d played a lot of baseball. Unfortunately, the
baseball tryouts weren’t until spring, and Edward couldn’t imagine playing the
game with anyone other than his family.
He didn’t
quite know why he
New Darkness: Part 2
In which the fan-fiction on Meg's behalf continues...
Edward had
played baseball for almost as long as the game had existed. Okay, that was an
exaggeration, but still, he’d played a lot of baseball. Unfortunately, the
baseball tryouts weren’t until spring, and Edward couldn’t imagine playing the
game with anyone other than his family.
He didn’t
quite know why he tried
Edward had
played baseball for almost as long as the game had existed. Okay, that was an
exaggeration, but still, he’d played a lot of baseball. Unfortunately, the
baseball tryouts weren’t until spring, and Edward couldn’t imagine playing the
game with anyone other than his family.
He didn’t
quite know why he tried
April 3, 2017
Beautiful Twilight: Part One
This is a fan-fiction post for my friend Meg, who recently posted on her Facebook wall:
The NCAA Final Four is the Carolinas vs. the Pacific Northwest. How bad is it if I'm imagining a Beautiful Creatures / Twilight crossover with college basketball? #thisiswhymybracketbursts
One of my other friends responded, "this sounds like fan-fiction in the making," to which Meg replied, "Geoff Bottone!
The NCAA Final Four is the Carolinas vs. the Pacific Northwest. How bad is it if I'm imagining a Beautiful Creatures / Twilight crossover with college basketball? #thisiswhymybracketbursts
One of my other friends responded, "this sounds like fan-fiction in the making," to which Meg replied, "Geoff Bottone!
March 27, 2017
Grey the Mercenary: The Rules
I recently came across Chuck Jones' Rules for his Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons. It's an impressive list, and it really works to both define the characters and focus in on the types of stories that he wanted to tell.
I realized, while reading it, that I had cultivated my own rules for the Grey the Mercenary stories, even though I hadn't been consciously aware of doing it. Because I
I realized, while reading it, that I had cultivated my own rules for the Grey the Mercenary stories, even though I hadn't been consciously aware of doing it. Because I
