a scrapbook of me • work & play & everything in-between
Originally posted on Google+ in July 2016: #5. Schnozzer (Electric, Dog, Trunk)Schnozzers eyes never see the light of day, hidden as they are beneath thick, silly fur from the day they're born. Instead, they navigate using their oversized muzzles which are sensitive enough to detect disturbances in the earth's electromagnetic field. Schnozzers love to play … Continue reading Redux: Tiny Monsters, Go! Schnozzer
Originally posted to Google+ in April of 2018: I've begun watching the new Lost in Space on Netflix, and I have to say that a few episodes in I am loving how the show is handling making the environment antagonistic to the characters. Not just that, but also how it is highlighting their resourcefulness beyond … Continue reading Redux: Uncharted Worlds & Lost in Space
Originally posted to Google+ in February 2015: Basically, the DM wanted a fight that forced some choices: there's going to be a hellhound, a zealot bad guy, and the scene is going to be on fire. It's going to make the PCs have to decide whether to turn and flee or fight on, and the … Continue reading Redux: Fire in D&D
This week I finished reading The Sword, The Ring, and The Chalice, a fantasy trilogy penned by author Deborah Chester; it forms the smaller part of her Mandria/Nether cycle, alongside the four Queen's Gambit novels. I enjoyed this series quite a bit! The lead character, Dain, is the elven heir to the throne of Nether, … Continue reading Tome to Table: Godsteel in “The Chalice”
Originally posted to Google+ in December 2014. I really enjoyed putting this together! I love the Codex's guide to assembling a dungeon on the fly, and I want to use it for pretty much everything, every chance I get... derelict spaceships, dramatic and complicated social interactions at parties, whatever. Love it. This was my answer … Continue reading Redux: Beneath the Bathhouse, a Planarch Codex Dungeon Example
I love the John Carter of Mars series of books. Read them to bits when I first discovered them; I found them online, but couldn't find them in stores or my local library, so I printed out a copy of the first book I found online and for a week I read it on the bus to … Continue reading Redux: Asha & Beletsunu
Originally posted to Google+ in July of 2018 for a Legacy: Life Among the Ruins play by post: So, the wardrobe of the Druids is kind of a cyberpunk throwback -- the stuff on the left, but made out of the cyberpunky materials in the center. And the Druids have got implants that develop naturally in … Continue reading Redux: Isis, the Hunter
Originally posted on Google+ in July 2016: #4 Amplisaur (Electric, Lizard, Shell)The metal ornament on its tail is small when born, and grows larger and more elaborate as the Amplisaur ages and its tail lengthens. Powerful tail muscles hold this lightning rod aloft in lightning storms, channeling the electricity into this TinyMon's battery-like shell. When fully … Continue reading Redux: Tiny Monsters, Go! Amplisaur
Originally posted on Google+ in October of 2018: I don't recall how exactly I came across this -- I think while googling Burning Wheel stuff, honestly -- but I have been swept up in it. A village suffering under ill omens enlists witch-hunters to root out who among them is practicing the dark arts; it's … Continue reading Redux: Witchburner
Originally posted to Google+ in September 2017: Trying out a one-on-one game of Legacy with a friend of mine! Pretty excited about it!We've created an alien world that in the Before was terraformed into something livable and earth-like, until "The Stars of the Creators" made planetfall (aka ancient space stations and satellites fell out of … Continue reading Redux: Legacy – Starfall
