a scrapbook of me • work & play & everything in-between
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
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 July 24 2016: Did some chores today to get prepped for my Star Trek Fate game! That gave me the chance to catch two more Tiny Monsters! #3 Lapacoals (Fire, Turtle, Spikes)It is said that Lapacoals are naturally cold-blooded and that they keep a fire burning inside their shells to … Continue reading Redux: Tiny Monsters, Go! Lapacoals
Originally posted on Google+ on July 24 2016: Did some chores today to get prepped for my Star Trek Fate game! That gave me the chance to catch two more Tiny Monsters! #2 Spidew (Water, Bug, Tentacles)The gelatinous body of a Spidew is malleable, and can be shaped into legs that it uses to scuttle … Continue reading Redux: Tiny Monsters, Go! Spidew
Originally posted on Google+ on July 24 2016: Like +Tim Franzke, I started using +Ben Wray's and +Chris Stone-Bush's Tiny Monsters Go! game. I'm playing the Blue Version, specifically! Right now I've got it synced up to game prep and game design stuff -- things I enjoy but get overwhelmed by easily. I sat down … Continue reading Redux: Tiny Monsters, Go! Salamandrip
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
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