what's been happening in the other pokeverse
st_rev has reminded me that I should mirror stuff from lurkerablog over here - because after all I did ask the question some time ago, whether folks would like me to keep the gaming stuff here, and the answer was yes.
Therewith:
On the Carcosa Wacky Races/(Toxic) Tartary setting: 20 setting-defining questions, hazards on the plain of glass, inspirational art and photos, two psionic stabs, what does this mysterious weapon thing do? and what happened on Turn 4 (other turns available if anyone's interested). John Gorman also got me to realise that most of the crazy Masters of the Universe type elements of that setting are invaders, castaways, refugees, and fugitives from elsewhere:
That exactly describes the incursions into the weirdlands of my Tartary: the green martians are there because they chased some Githyanki through a gate that got shut behind them, the grease monkeys wound up there hiding out either from ultratech slavers or Butlerian jihadists, and the mi-go are there because mi-go are everywhere there's a large shiftless migrant population that can't count its missing. And then there are the refugees and fugitives from the overworld, who actually cause most of the trouble, indirectly.
On the Southeast Asian Pirates setting: portraits of character classes. This one's always on the backburner, so even seemingly unrelated posts like this one on ships as megadungeons might turn out to be SAP. Turns out I've also written up the Sulawesi Highlands Sky Men for that setting, which have been floating around my head ever since Ken Hite did the first Iron Ref contest, but they're not ready for prime time yet.
Aside from that, noodlings on coverting Pokemon to 0DnD, a Noah's Ark dungeon, and links to someone's thoughtful very-condensed list of DnD spells (I am tempted to add Ars Magica and Nephilim spells in the same format).
You should also be apprised: William Broom wrote this amazing bunch of "prestige class" ideas including cannibals and doomed paladins, Chris Kutalik wrote a diary of a wandering monster, Trey Causey offered a nice take on the Ukiyo-E Floating World as an RPG setting, John Stater shoehorned William Blake and DnD alignment roughly into the same conch shell.
Therewith:
On the Carcosa Wacky Races/(Toxic) Tartary setting: 20 setting-defining questions, hazards on the plain of glass, inspirational art and photos, two psionic stabs, what does this mysterious weapon thing do? and what happened on Turn 4 (other turns available if anyone's interested). John Gorman also got me to realise that most of the crazy Masters of the Universe type elements of that setting are invaders, castaways, refugees, and fugitives from elsewhere:
That exactly describes the incursions into the weirdlands of my Tartary: the green martians are there because they chased some Githyanki through a gate that got shut behind them, the grease monkeys wound up there hiding out either from ultratech slavers or Butlerian jihadists, and the mi-go are there because mi-go are everywhere there's a large shiftless migrant population that can't count its missing. And then there are the refugees and fugitives from the overworld, who actually cause most of the trouble, indirectly.
On the Southeast Asian Pirates setting: portraits of character classes. This one's always on the backburner, so even seemingly unrelated posts like this one on ships as megadungeons might turn out to be SAP. Turns out I've also written up the Sulawesi Highlands Sky Men for that setting, which have been floating around my head ever since Ken Hite did the first Iron Ref contest, but they're not ready for prime time yet.
Aside from that, noodlings on coverting Pokemon to 0DnD, a Noah's Ark dungeon, and links to someone's thoughtful very-condensed list of DnD spells (I am tempted to add Ars Magica and Nephilim spells in the same format).
You should also be apprised: William Broom wrote this amazing bunch of "prestige class" ideas including cannibals and doomed paladins, Chris Kutalik wrote a diary of a wandering monster, Trey Causey offered a nice take on the Ukiyo-E Floating World as an RPG setting, John Stater shoehorned William Blake and DnD alignment roughly into the same conch shell.