What is this world if not an invention of our imagination? —Pater Prester Ioannes, Apocalypsis of Prester Ioannes (1:16). In the Ultraviolet Grasslands the civilised regions of the Circle Sea, the Rainbowlands, are only…Continue readingMonochrome Rainbow: Dekapolis
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ARC Discord Bot
For a while now I’ve been building a Discord Bot as a stretch goal to the ARC TTRPG kickstarter. Discord bots are a relatively new frontier in the TTRPG space, and I want to…Continue readingARC Discord Bot
Why roleplaying never works as written and why this is a good thing and how this excerpt is clickbait.Continue readingNever As Written
Roleplaying games are many things. One thing they can do particularly well is let us put on the shoes of other humans*1 (<-that’s an asterisk) in other situations. We can try to imagine what…Continue readingEmpathy Engines
… and the joyful play of collaborative creativity. Before we go further, the first Hexer’s Guide to the Anti-canons: Tales from the Gastro Zone, is available for free on itch.io. A baker’s dozen of…Continue readingTales from the Gastro Zone
First, the promotional stuff. In about a month we’re doing a second print run of the UVG, with nice, soft, bendy covers. The more preorders Exalted Funeral gets, the more gently we’ll sleep. It’s…Continue readingVery Promotional: UVG Softcovers, Reflecting on Ennies, Future Projects
In Seacat 3: Superbasics we looked at the core mechanics, including this basic bit of rpg toolkit: Test: d20 + Stat + Skill over Target. Now we’re going to look at stats and skills more closely. Stat…Continue readingSeacat 6: Stats and Skills
No, you didn’t get anything wrong, I just decided to start with the 3rd section for now to skip the prologue, the part with the roman numerals, the chapter that’s for those players who…Continue readingSeacat 3: Superbasics
A consistent problem I’ve always faced in role-playing games is how to quickly introduce new characters to the game, both non-player characters and player characters. Whether the player’s hero has died, or they need…Continue readingQuantum Characters and the Tabletop Role-playing Game
29 hours ago the UVG kickstarter launched. If you wanted to get onto the hype wagon before it made it big … uhh … it’s too late. We hit our funding goal and the…Continue readingUltraviolet Grasslands Are Kickstarted