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When I was writing Watchtower Report, one of my most useful brainstorming techniques was thinking about other shows, movies, and properties that I'd like to run using the Smallville RPG. Starship Troopers was one of these, and part of developing the ideas in the book was putting ( Read more... )

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Void Vultures, a scrappy little game about badass space marines looting derelict space stations (and the things that live on them), has been more than fully funded… we've reached five hundred percent funding.

Here's the skinny:

The game's corebook, Rüls of the Void, will be ( Read more... )

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The Void Vultures kickstarter has reached its initial goal of $750! We'll be able to get some awesome art from awesome artists (details coming soon) and make both Rüls of the Void and Derelicts of the Void into great PDFs.

But if we can get the kickstarter to go further, we'll ( Read more... )

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I went looking on the Internet for a list of adjectives to describe skin tones. I was thoroughly defeated. So I put this together, trying to avoid those with the worst connotations (although see note). These aren’t ethnology or sociology terms, but descriptive words. The color ( Read more... )

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This week is Speak Out with your Geek Out, and I'm going to speak out about how I geek out with writing.

Except… I'm on a roll writing Rooksbridge #10, so. Maybe later this week?

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Hearts True and False - Stories from Rooksbridge #9


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For the Atlantis Risen project, I've been doing a lot of reading and watching (more reading than watching) trying to get to the bottom of the steampunk genre. I've done a steampunk game before in Full Light, Full Steam, but that was when I was young and stupid. This time, I ( Read more... )

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If you got Requiem for the Wicked's digital edition, the iPhone version apparently dropped the last paragraph. Whoops! This has since been fixed; you can download the updated version from your downloads page.

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Here's the first draft of the flavor text that opens up Void Vultures. It's since been polished and improved, but you can take a peek here to see where it started:

Ten years ago, the powers of Earth and their many solar colonies erupted into violence in a system-wide war. With ( Read more... )