GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale was not the first collaboration I’d done with J. (and it wasn’t the last). It was however a situation where I felt we’d both shine. J. has a singularly gifted ability with horror and the unknown. One that has shown up often in his works. When Steven came to me […]
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Carpe Blogiem: Upcoming Vacation Notice
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 […]
Continue readingCarpe 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: 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: 2019 – A Year In Review
Here are how things went for me in 2019: The Good (What I did well or that went well) GURPS Realm Management (aka “SNO-51”) was written, revised, and is currently in playtest. The playtest is likely to be extended and as of this writing there have been over 1,000 emails traded back and forth between […]
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