Would it be fair to say that Gary Gygax, a founder of the modern role-playing hobby, was an accountant with a love of war-gaming? It would. As I completed the Ultraviolet Grasslands manuscript in August, finished…Continue readingNatural Language Roleplaying Games
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Last night a crew of unlikely heroes destroyed the scourge of the six levels: Orcagorgon. With the application of guile, lion millipedes, stone giants, marbles, explosives, a rocket wheelchair, meatshields, archery, magic, a tragic…Continue readingThe Incredible Adventuring Wheelbarrow (61)
The 14th Update of the UVG has just gone live on Patreon. It continues threading Ultraviolet Grasslands westward, finally reaching the Chasm that divides the great steppe from the western ridges and that locus of…Continue readingWho are the heroes of the UVG? (post 59)
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The Neon Ziggurat (post 57)
In the wasted hills north of the Spectrum Palace local ecstatics talk in angry tones of the heresies of the Neon Ziggurat. “Gaslights!” they spit, “Not the true Spectrum of Heaven that the satraps…Continue readingThe Neon Ziggurat (post 57)
I’ve been taking part in the One Page Dungeon contest on and off since 2012, and this year is the tenth anniversary! As you might know (or not) the 1PD is a contest to…Continue reading54 One Page Dungeon Contest 2018 – Illustration Prize
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52 Other Crossings of the River
The Moon-facing Ford was lost behind the grass-knit dunes. Poncho shivered, the wan purple light of the sun behind the haze layer no consolation in this desolate land under the gaze of the Near…Continue reading52 Other Crossings of the River
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51 UVG VIIIa: Fallen Umber
Are you supporting the Ultraviolet Grasslands on Patreon? You could be! Give it a try, and my arting writing self will approve. Now with 8 updates and over 50 pages of weird grassland. Browsing…Continue reading51 UVG VIIIa: Fallen Umber
I have published installment six of the Ultraviolet Grasslands. New this time: The Last Serai, a trading outpost where a tense equilibrium reigns between three powerful factions. A side-on map of the Last Serai…Continue reading48 UVG 6 and One Hundred Patreon Dollars
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47 Demiwarlock’s d100 Magical Tomes
Another necro-retro-post from the past! The d100 pseudo-magical tomes was one of my first posts on my old blog, Cauldrons & Clerics, and here I’m bringing it to expanded un-life! From the old post:…Continue reading47 Demiwarlock’s d100 Magical Tomes
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46 d100 Magic Prosthetics
This is a repost from two blogs and four years ago, when I set up my first rpg blog: Cauldrons and Clerics. I thought it would be funny to talk about cooking and religion and…Continue reading46 d100 Magic Prosthetics