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 […]
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Carpe 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 […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – December 2019
Authorial Highlights Marl Ankh-3’s first draft is done. I will still do a final once over before submission but I still have about a month of time left so there is plenty of room for that. GURPS Realm Management aka SNO-51 is in playtest. I handpicked about 21 applicants (originally 20, but Peter Dell’Orto wanted in […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – November 2019
Authorial Highlights Marl Ankh-3 is being edited/revised and I’m currently at the 77% mark. My January deadline is well within reach as I continue working on this one. SNO-51 should be hitting playtest soon. Be on the lookout for it! It’ll be of great interest to worldbuilders I think. I didn’t write a single […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: The Chronicles of Ceteri Primer – Schwarzgerät
For the most part the universe of Ceteri is TL8 (or less in some areas). It’s a contemporary campaign set in the modern world – but that doesn’t mean weird technology doesn’t exist. Schwarzgerät is a word that means “black device” and has come to mean any sort of science or technology that uses variant, unknown, […]
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