Folks, Starting around the 5th of August 2020 I’m going to be going on a month to two month vacation. I won’t be posting blog posts or be here and will likely not be on the forums either. Contact in general will be kind of ignored (unless urgent) as I vegg out. I REALLY need […]
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Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – July 2020
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: ??? aka Marl Ankh-3 remains in the hands of SJ Games. It needs its first editorial review. GURPS Realm Management aka SNO-51 is in the hands of SJGames. It awaits final editorial review. Nordland Nibelung aka Nordland Magic Items – is finished and with Douglas Cole for editorial review. […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – June 2020
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: ??? aka Marl Ankh-3 remains in the hands of SJ Games. It needs its first editorial review. GURPS Realm Management aka SNO-51 is in the hands of SJGames. It awaits final editorial review. Nordland Nibelung aka Nordland Magic Items – is finished and 75% of the way through editing […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – April and May 2020
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: ??? aka Marl Ankh-3 remains in the hands of SJ Games. GURPS Realm Management aka SNO-51 is in the hands of SJGames. Nordland Nibelung (a DFRPG book) – the query I sent Doug in April – is 54% of the way complete for its first draft and I continue […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Ruminations on a Wuxia Campaign, Revisited
You might recall me working up a wuxia campaign later last year. You might also remember how it crashed and burned after only four sessions. It happens. You can prepare, plan, and propel a campaign and it can still crash. It sucks. This one died because I lost players. When I lose players I tend […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Call for Players for Wuxia Campaign
So I’m going to be looking for a few players in the coming weeks for a wuxia game that I’m going to run. The campaign details aren’t quite gelled yet, but I will be looking at using the chambara rules from GURPS Martial Arts. It will be using powers-based abilities for chi powers, have a custom realm-based […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – March 2020
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: ??? aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of SJ Games. GURPS Realm Management aka SNO-51 out of playtest and in my hands for final revisions. It’s due at the end of the month The query I sent Doug was sent back to me. It’s not a no, but […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – February 2020
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: ??? aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of SJ Games. GURPS Realm Management aka SNO-51 is in playtest. So far the playtest has reached 1,634 separate emails as of this post. We’re in the endgame for this. My extension for the playtest was granted and my playtesters are […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – January 2020
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: ??? aka Marl Ankh-3 has had its first draft submitted to Steve Jackson Games. Given that GURPS Girl Genius is in house and with Kromm I doubt I will see feedback on this any time soon. My current version is sitting at about 26,000 words and has only two […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Dungeon Grappling Review
I want to preface this product reveiw with the following: I’ve not yet played Pathfinder or Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition, but have read both and have a good understanding of the rules therein. I’ve played many games with the original Dungeons and Dragons game engine (aka “OSR” aka “Swords and Wizardry”). Additionally, I worked as […]
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