One of my favorite parts of the UVG project was (is) the digital referee screen made by Saker Tarsos. It’s a standalone html generator that covers all the tables in the UVG. Because it’s…Continue readingUVG Digital Referee Screen + Zoa Tables
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Penglings, of the
• VotBO • UVG • Penglings • Faction • “I first heard of towns of ice sailing the All-sea, the Panthalassa, at the Bloodsac Bar in Free Golf. I was looking for new anorganics…Continue readingPenglings, of the
The player’s guide to the award-winning Ultraviolet Grasslands is revamped, cleaned up, and as mind-bent as before. It’s now available in full 70-page glory on itch.io and drivethrurpg.com for your gaming pleasure. What’s new…Continue readingUVG Free Player Guide 2.0
A solid half-year late the UVG hardcovers are finally reaching their backers. This has been an incredible project for me. Hard, yet fulfilling. Grueling, yet often fun. Exhausting, but also somehow inspiring. I drew…Continue readingReflections on Completing the Ultraviolet Grasslands
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No Masters, Only Dungeons
A few weeks ago, VintageRPG posted about the Dungeon Master’s Guide and mentioned how they’ve “kind of doubted the utility of DMGs for a long time. The only one that holds genuine, continued interest…Continue readingNo Masters, Only Dungeons
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Roleplaytime
To be clear: what follows are my thoughts, not the pronouncement of some authority on high. I am convinced mistaking words for truths is the root of many mistakes. I hope we all avoid…Continue readingRoleplaytime
Thirty months after I published the first chapter of an initial eight-chapter Ultraviolet Grasslands on my patreon (the stratometaship), the 32-chapter UVG + 60-page rules appendix is complete. The wildly successful kickstarter is nearly…Continue readingAnd The Book Is Done
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Anti Canon Worlds and the UVG
Or why you can relax about getting things ‘wrong’. Against Canon Sometime in the early-to-mid 1990s I discovered the Discworld of Terry Pratchett. I was blown away. I loved the dry humor, the terrible…Continue readingAnti Canon Worlds and the UVG
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
In Witchburner I use three tools to help create the intimate, paranoid atmosphere of a small mountain town beset by witchcraft: alcohol, love, and fear … and their end result: the mob. These are excerpts…Continue readingAlcohol, Love, Fear, and the Mob in Witchburner (65)