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
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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)
While I’m working on wrapping up the UVG, I’ve also been working on an adjacent project. It’s still only a codename and hints of pictures I’ve released in the past on G+ and other…Continue readingLong long ago, before the UVG (post 60)
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 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
Because I’m sometimes pre-occupied, my posts are sometimes slow. My second post on long-distance D&D (3 months ago) dealt with supplies, the first dealt with time. This one still isn’t touching on space, but instead attacking…Continue reading42 Long-distance Gritty Realism III: Inventory