I am forever a GM by choice. I have very high standards when it comes to the sorts of games I’ll play in for protracted periods of time. If I’m in your game more than four sessions it means you met my standards and are continuing to meet them. Now that doesn’t mean a hill of […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – April and May 2024
Authorial Highlights I have settled on what form of fiction I want to write. Outlining is mostly done. I keep going back to it and revising it though. “GURPS Meta-Tech” aka GURPS Whatchamacallit is staged and ready for release in June 2024. No, I don’t have a specific time – when it shows up […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – March 2024
Authorial Highlights I have settled on what form of fiction I want to write. Outlining is mostly done. I keep going back to it and revising it though. “GURPS Meta-Tech” aka GURPS Whatchamacallit is in the hands of Sean Punch aka Dr. Kromm. I turned it in on the 25th of March. Just over […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: 2023 – A Year In Review
Here are how things went for me in 2023: The Good (What I did well or that went well) My Patreon continues to grow and remains most of my monthly (steady) income. I’m sitting at 102 patrons right now and 12 followers (free members – something Patreon changed that I actually liked). I ended up back […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – February 2024
Authorial Highlights I have settled on what form of fiction I want to write, but I need to consider it some and do some preliminary outlining. “GURPS Meta-Tech” aka GURPS Whatchamacallit is out of playtest and now in revision. There were about 1300 emails total for the book which is looking to be about […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – January 2023
Authorial Highlights I have settled on what form of fiction I want to write, but I need to consider it some and do some preliminary outlining. “GURPS Meta-Tech” aka GURPS Whatchamacallit is still in playtest and there has been a LOT of emails back and forth: 1,203 emails so far. That is a LOT […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Ten Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Out as a Gamemaster
There are things that I wish someone had told me when I first started out being a gamemaster. Stuff you only get told by someone who knows (assuming you listen) or things which you learn at the school of hard knocks. Occasionally, you can read about them if some wise and learned master (*cough*) writes […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – December 2023
Authorial Highlights I have settled on what form of fiction I want to write, but I need to consider it some and do some preliminary outlining. “GURPS Meta-Tech” aka GURPS Whatchamacallit is back with Steve Jackson Games to get ready for the playtest that starts this week. I personally handpicked my playtesters and had […]
Continue readingAEON B2-Team: Season 7, Session 1 – At the Beginning
Dramatis Personae Amar Gupta aka The Iron Sikh (played by Christian): Brick. Taxi Driver. Ass-Kicker. Sikh. Tagline: “Being a man of faith means to live it.” Amie-Belle T. W. Lee aka Whisper (Played by Curtis): Cold War era super-soldier/spy that got put in the Freezer, because she got poisoned. After getting thawed out and cured she tried to […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: On The Care And Feeding of Players
GMs can’t run games without players and players can’t play games without GMs. It’s a paradox of collaborative storytelling. But players can be finicky creatures and not all GMs know how to heard cats. Here’s a few tips to keep your players happy without giving into them all the time. Agency of Choices Players do […]
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