Help me Plan future Kickstarters

Here's a link to a Google Form. I'm looking to get some idea on the sorts of stuff people would like as their stuff and loot for Kickstarters. There's not much point in me blowing a week of my life going around gathering specialist information about prices of this or that, if nobody actually wants …

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Project 39 – A Playtest Episode for Beta Maxx X

I've been smashing out stuff for Beta Maxx X, if you haven't seen anything about it yet, you can find things here, here, here, and some other posts you can find. To get it to the next stage, I've got a testing Character Sheet for Roll20 which is mostly functional rather than sexy sexy sexy. …

Undead are Fears – Mental Loss

The horde just drudge forward, a great mass of them that seem to only want to eat the minds of the living. There are a number of undead which are obviously there to represent various forms of 'losing your ability to think'. Whether they are because they will 'eat your brains', because they mentally numb …

Not a Top 10 List of Anything

I previously gave you my Top 10 of things I found four seconds ago… in response to a media article about the Top 10 List of people that you "had" to follow in terms of D&D. It was in April, and already in the last few months, I've gotten a bunch of people you should probably consider …

Undead are Fears – Abusive Relationships

As a little public service announcement, if you're in or not comfortable talking about features of abusive relationships, then this blog post may not be for you. I'm not going into nitty gritty details, but that doesn't mean it might not hit you places you don't want to be hurt. Maybe come back for the …

Undead are Fears – Starvation

They rise from their graves, filled with a hunger to feed that will never leave them satisfied. They crave for... This is the starting description for many things from Horror Film, D&D Monster books, computer games and more. They give you a great starting point for how to make the past 'spawn' undead that make …

Undead are Fears

Undead are a feature of so many stories, and not just from traditional fantasy or fairy tales. You've had TV series such as True Blood, Vampire Diaries, and The Walking Dead. You've got the whole Resident Evil series, the Blade series, and the whole genre of Zombie Slasher. They are staples of horror movies, and …

Crafting Fishhooks – The Plot Twist Edition

Two broad methods of GM-Driven Plot Twist Here is a bunch of orcs, and over here is an evil Mummy Lord hellbent on rebuilding the empire they were from that is now a thousand years old *mash bang hammer glue Homer Simpson building a barbecue* PLOT TWIST!!! Or there is a mastermind that the players …

Beta Maxx X – an Update

So I've let a number of effectively Strangers look at Beta Maxx X. Some of the feedback has been great. I am getting a stronger handle on what is missing from it, more because I think it's stuff lodged in my head and not on the page. Version 1.4 is being done. Lots of chunks …

Rest easy Anthony Bourdain

It's been hitting me harder. I cant tell you why especially. He liked the ordinary done extraordinarily. Maybe it was that. A guy who knew fancy food and didn't turn his nose at a 100y old recipe just because it was old. Maybe it's just sentimentalism. He struck me as a sentimental sort of guy, …

A Little Update

I've been tinkering away with other writing work of late. Not so much here with the blog and ideas like that. Beta Maxx X has been not doing heaps mostly because I'm hoping to hear back from those that have been reading it for me. In the meantime I've released Everburning Forge on DTRPG, Waylaid …