Ahhh, that new campaign smell. I know, I know, you’re thinking “Dude, this is like the third one in as many months. What gives?” Well, what gives is pretty simple: If a campaign doesn’t spark for me I don’t force it. That way lies burnout for gaming period. My players mostly understand that. The DF […]
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Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – September 2019
Authorial Highlights Calypso-4 aka “Five Four Perilous Journeys” is done. We made our deadline and wrapped up the adventure path that’s led from the first to the fifth. Overall, I’m proud of this one. It turned out really great and let J. Edward Tremlett and myself get in more time as coauthors. That’s a bond that takes […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: How I Do Game Prep
Game prep is the thing all GMs fear to some degree or another. Whether it’s fear of not having enough time for prep or having no ideas for prep, that fear doesn’t go away as your GMing skills increase it just lessens. There are probably hundreds or even thousands of ways to game prep – […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Looking for New Players
I’m looking for new players for my B- and C-Teams. Currently, we’re going to be playing a modern day wuxia game with wainscoting. I’m looking for 2-3 long-term players that are willing to join both groups for weekly games (B-Team is 7:30pm to 11:30pm EST every Monday and C-Team is 4:00pm to 8:00pm every Sunday). […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: AEON Primer – Setting History I
Buckle up, kids. This is going to be a long post. Before the Black Sky Aeon was much like our world in the beginning, in fact, up until almost 30,000 years ago it was the same. Then something happened. An odd asteroid collided with Earth. As the meteor streaked across the sky, it drew the […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogeim: AEON Primer – Setting Assumptions
As I have discussed before the first thing I do when I start to build a campaign setting is decide what the setting assumptions are. That is, what is true, what is false (if needed), and what is thought to be true. This is an intensely important part of campaign building and I can take weeks just […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – August 2019
Authorial Highlights The work on Calypso-4 aka “Five Four Perilous Journeys” continues. J. Edward has sent me Adventure #4 to format, edit, and add my pieces and has moved onto the 5th and final adventure for this contract. It’s gonna be close, but I think we can make our October deadline. My submitted proposal was […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: AEON Primer – Introduction
I previously did a primer series on my Chronicles of Ceteri campaign setting and it was so well received I decided to do it again, but this time for my AEON universe. So first, here’s what my session recap page has to say (I’ve reprinted it here so you don’t have to go there): It’s […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogeim: My New Desktop
So my name machine is fully assembled, the kinks are (mostly) worked out, and I’ve begun working in earnest again. Thanks to all who donated to make this happen: Anders Starmark Christopher Hallquist David Fico and Sarah Hale David Pulver Elizabeth McCoy Emily Smirle Jason “PK” Levine Jeromy French [redacted at request of the doner] […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – July 2019
Authorial Highlights GURPS SNO-51 is not only out of the freezer it has been submitted. It’s out of my hands for now. The work on Calypso-4 aka “Five Four Perilous Journeys” continues. I really love the artwork Doug has gotten for it. The work on Adventure #4 continues and hopefully we’ll be done with that by […]
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