a scrapbook of me • work & play & everything in-between
Originally posted to Google+ in 2014: Continuing my Star Trek: Fate of the Federation NPC portraits, I step away from my reoccurring Klingon secondary cast and take a jaunt into one-off (for now) characters. This doodle is Captain Carmella al-Hubari, an example of the elusive (in the canon at least) female starship captain.Captain al-Hubari commands … Continue reading Fate of the Federation Cast members
Originally posted to Google+ in September 2014: +Lex Starwalker asked me to talk about my Star Trek series that I'm running. So here's some info in general, on starships, on FAE, on crew, and scenarios.GeneralI'm taking a lot of inspiration from Fate of the Alpha Quadrant, a set of guidelines that have mysteriously vanished from the … Continue reading Redux: Fate of the Federation
Originally posted to Google+ in December 2014: I just wrapped up a Front now that my first game of Dungeon World has been played.Last we left our protagonists, they were fleeing into the Spirit Wood on druid-elkback to escape the Kobold/Lizard-folk legion that had taken Fort Ironwood on the Orc/Halfling border.FrontThe Scouring of the Spirit … Continue reading Redux: Scouring of the Spirit Wood, Front & Custom Moves
Originally posted to Google+ in February 2015: The Rivertowne Code: Supernatural peacekeepers conceal their community of displaced spirits, gods, and folk-figures from the modern world's scrutiny by enforcing The Code -- a centuries old covenant for maintaining peace, resolving disputes, and preventing harm -- amongst their neighbors in the low-profile ward of Rivertown. Their mission … Continue reading Redux: Rivertowne Code, Primetime Adventures
Originally posted to Google+ in December 2016: Inspirations: Nier Automata, Wall-E, 9, Battlestar Galactica's Final Five, Blade Runner's replicants, the Omnic Crisis of Overwatch, the survivor's guilt of the FreakAngels webcomicI'm jamming real hard right now on the idea of an Apocalypse World where rogue AIs have wiped out the majority of humanity, and our … Continue reading Redux: Inherit the Earth
Originally posted to Google+ in February 2017: Was going to be running an Apocalypse World: Dark Ages play-by-post with some friends. Then everyone got very busy with volunteering, protesting, representative-calling, attending city council meetings, and such and the verdict came down to me that -- given everything they're doing in their regular lives -- they … Continue reading Redux: Universal Princesses Dimension Drive!
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 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
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
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