a scrapbook of me • work & play & everything in-between
The Hanging Tower, written and illustrated by Sam Bosma Years ago, at this point, I read Sam Bosma's excellent comic, The Hanging Tower. It's so very good that it has never left my mind, since - for real, go buy this. You absolutely won't regret it. The wild west-like setting excites me, especially as the … Continue reading Situation Burning: “Breaking of the Storm”
Originally posted to Google+ in July of 2017: I've got a story arc going on where public perception of the team is as complicated as its ever been and I'm having fun playing around with a custom move that emphasizes the caprice of popularity and the fragility of teenage egos.When you check your own hashtag … Continue reading Redux: Check your own Hashtag, Custom Move
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 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 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
Originally posted to Google+ on September 23 2017. At 81 plus-ones, this is probably my most interacted-with thing I ever contributed on G+: My players finally picked out a name for their crew, so it seemed appropriate to introduce that name in the fiction in a big way... and since they just got an Inspector … Continue reading Redux: The Devil’s Gentry of Glass Street
Originally posted on Google+ on June 30 2017: Another custom faction I needed to whip up for my Blades game. Not the best, but I like them.----------NIGHTMARKET CORSAIRS (Tier II)Pinch-pennies and confidence men to the New Elite of Nightmarket, selling them on cheap knock-offs of the aristocrat experience and pocketing the difference.Turf: hound track in … Continue reading Redux: Blades in the Dark, Nightmarket Corsairs
Originally published on Google+ on May 3 2017: I tried my hand at a Faction tonight! Specifically, I rolled at random to see what Factions should be at odds in my initial situation, and I got the Ink Rakes/Cyphers/Wraiths... but those first two don't have write-ups in the book. Rather than shrug and roll again, … Continue reading Redux: Blades in the Dark, Ink Rakes
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