Authorial Highlights I ended up asking for (another) extension for GURPS SNO-51. This was done because I wasn’t entirely sure my editing/revision would be finished in the time I’d been allotted. Currently, my editing mark is at 64%. I still need two more examples for the appendix, but I’ve been saving that for last […]
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Designer’s Notes Merlin’s Magnificent Menagerie
This one was fun to write. I want to just get that out of the way. Not all articles are fun to write – many of them (for me) are Dungeon Fantasy since I get to crank up the silliness a bit. This was fun for a different reason – because it was GURPS Technomancer. […]
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The Fifth Attribute began life in my campaign “The Awakening” in mid-2014. I wanted a way to tie in all the supernatural powers of that campaign setting along with a few campaign features to make a working cohesive framework. It took me the better part of a month to write it and I began with […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – April 2019
Authorial Highlights I reorganized GURPS SNO-51 and added several missing things reviewers noted. I also added a running example that seems to be working quite well for reviewers. The reorg took me about a week to do right and the example helped a LOT there. I’m almost at wordcount – which isn’t great because […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – March 2019
Authorial Highlights I finished GURPS SNO-51 – the first draft anyways. The second chapter was much lighter than I outlined it to be, so I’ve got to find something to do with that space. I also am going to need to reorganize the whole thing, add a glossary, and a running example. It’s that […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – February 2019
Authorial Highlights Work continued on GURPS SNO-51. It’s all coming together in a really great way. I upped my required word count per day to 1,000 and if all goes according to plan I’ll finish sometimes mid-month in March with the first draft. (A 1,000 words the mechanically intensive or research required projects is […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – January 2019
Authorial Highlights Work began in earnest on project SNO-51. No more dribs. No more drabs. I’ve set myself a work schedule and so far I’ve stuck to it. There have been difficult problems here and there, but I’mve averaging about a 1,000 words per day just on this alone. There are some things I’m […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: 2018 – A Year In Review
Here are how things went for me in 2018: The Good (What I did well or that went well) I got contracted for a small item (which was published in GURPS Monster Hunters 6: Holy Hunters and in Pyramid #3/122: All Good Things). That was novel and very cool I was among the privileged few […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – December 2018
Authorial Highlights My Pyramid article “Chevaliers and Commanders” (originally titled Cavaliers and Commanders”) was published in Pyramid #3/122: All Good Things. My other Pyramid article “Native American Crusaders” was published in the same issue. This, along with the small box in GURPS Monster Hunters 6: Holy Hunters was part of my short contract I hinted […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – November 2018
Authorial Highlights My Pyramid article “Merlin’s Magnificent Menagerie” was published in Pyramid #3/120: Travels and Tribulations. I sent back comments on that short GURPS item along with a bit more material. That’s done. I hope. My non-GURPS project stalled got some headway and there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel. And none to […]
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