Finding a player for a game you wish to run is hard – finding the right player is even harder. I’ve been pretty lucky for the most part and with my current player pool of 15 or so I’ve been even luckier. That said, I personally have a few criteria that I look for in players: […]
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Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – October/November 2017
Here’s the highlights for me from October and November 2017 (And yes, I know I’m beyond late – I try to do this at the beginning of the month. but stuff happened. So. Much. Stuff.) Authorial Highlights I submitted no articles in October or November and instead pulled from those I’d finished. I’m still writing a […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: GenCon 50 – Aftermath
Man. Coming back home I was out of it. I feel like I slept for a week yesterday. Today I’m a bit more rested, but still tired. I spent most of today unpacking and catching up on some stuff from home. My cat seems to have missed me, and basically hasn’t left my side since […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: GenCon 50 – Day 3
I’m writing this from home because Day 3 was just CRAZY and then the trip home was me mostly hallucinating from lack of sleep until I finally got home and passed out for 10 hours before waking up, eating, and passing out for another 12. So here is what happened Saturday August 19th, 2017 at […]
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Another day of “DEAR GOD WHAT AM I DOING AND WHY IS EVERYTHING EXPLODING.” Ok. First thing’s first – I got breakfast this morning at like 9am – I went to bed around 3am. Showered, shaved, and then headed to the Con via Uber. I headed toward the SJGames booth and lo and behold Sean […]
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Whew. Lot of stuff happened today. Let’s see. I wandered around the GenCon exhibition hall for about 5 hours. I got a chance to talk to numerous folks including Steve Jackson, Michael Stackpoole, Andrew Hackard, and a dozen others. It was pretty damn amazing. I snagged up a good half-dozen folks I knew were coming […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: GenCon 50 – Day 0
Whew. I’m in Indianapolis at GenCon 50. Finally. SO MUCH STRESS OVER STUPID THINGS THAT TURNED OUT NOT TO MATTER. But I’m here now and that is all that matters. Some notes from today: Traveling ManI got to Norfolk Airport about 1255 hours and I was through the TSA checkpoint by 1310 hours. Seriously. It was […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: All Hail The Line Editor
Sean “Dr. Kromm” Punch is celebrating a birthday this week and seeing that he’s the architect of my favorite game engine and my oft-times boss I thought I’d talk about some of the things he’s done that I’ve enjoyed or just random anecdotes. AnecdotesHere comes the random When I was writing GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 19: […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: A New Chronicle Part I
My GURPS campaign has ended, long-live my GURPS campaign! Aeon came to a final close about 6-8 weeks ago. I answered some questions and left more questions unanswered. That’s usually a good way to leave things I’ve found. So what’s next? Returning to a previous campaign is what’s next. I’ve talked about my urban fantasy […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Aeon Campaign Arc 1, Post Mortem
Ok, folks. Buckle up. This is going to be a slightly long post. First, if you don’t know about my Aeon campaign here’s the gist from my Session Recap page. It’s 2016 and superpowers are real. They appear to have been born out of a strange energy pulse that hit the middle of the Atlantic […]
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