This month’s theme for the Brotherhood of Bloggers Who Blog Too Much is all about powers systems we’ve used in our games. What we used “out of the box”, what we’ve adapted to suit the campaign, and what we changed because we didn’t like it. Instead of giving you specifics for what I did dear […]
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Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – May 2022
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. I finished the novel. I. Finished. The. Novel. It’s done. It’s with some alpha reviewers. I’m a terrible judge of my own work and I rely on others to tell me if something is good or […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Rules I Don’t Use, Replace, or Revise
GURPS 4th edition is a very well put together system and one that I deeply enjoy using and writing for… but there are things about it that I rather don’t like and have either ignored or houseruled away. Now, as any of my players can tell you I really don’t have a lot of after-character creation […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – March & April 2022
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. Still working on that novel. The ending is proving hard – I know what I want it to be but getting there and doing it right is eating time. I currently have one outstanding contract: GURPS Dungeon […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – February 2022
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. Still working on that novel. Gonna finish it this month I currently have one outstanding contract: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves. I have submitted the proposal for a GURPS book I want to write. I have been advised […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – January 2022
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. Never did get to finish up my novel – but that’s on the list to do this month. Still really like what I wrote there. I currently have one outstanding contract: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves. I […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: 2021 – A Year In Review
Here are how things went for me in 2021: The Good (What I did well or that went well) GURPS Realm Management was published at the beginning of the first quarter. It sold pretty well and I’m looking at doing a follow-up or three. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves was turned in after a good playtest […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – December 2021
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. I I need to do some finishing up of that novel I wrote and then fridge it for a few months before going back to it and revise/edit it. We’ll see how I feel about it […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – October and November 2021
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. I wrote a novel (which is why I missed updating in November) for National Novel Writing Month. You can and should write at any time. But 30 days for 50,000 words? That’s a nice challenge. One […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – October 2021
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is out of playtest, revised, and sent in. Thanks for my final checkers who made sure everything was golden after the playtest. Y’all were awesome. I currently have one outstanding contract: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves. I haven’t submitted the proposal for a GURPS book I […]
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