Dungeons & Dragons, as you may know, is an RPG. No, that’s doing it a disservice. D&D is the RPG. Arguably the first of its kind, D&D certainly became the definitive example of the medium. It has dominated the cultural dialogue about RPGs to the point that even if you know nothing about RPGs, you’ve still heard of Dungeons & Dragons. It’s difficult to explain how ubiquitous D&D is as a concept, not just a game in and of itself: It has spawned books, clones, parodies, movies, and even a children’s cartoon show, although we can probably blame that last one on the ethos of the 80s more than any inherent merit.

You probably have an image in your head about what Tabletop Role-playing Games “are.” Even if you’ve never played one, you have a shape in your head, defined enough that you can see a group sitting around a table with dice, paper, pencils, and a cardboard screen and say “ah yes, that is an RPG. I saw it on Stranger Things.”

Noriama About Hard-Sci-Fi has always interested me as a genre. It’s that same strange mix of education and indulgence that was sprinkled through 80s-90s public television; an adult version of Bill Nye or Sesame Street. It’s also a clever assertion that both fantasy and active-imagination are not necessarily required to create engaging stories. It is, in a sort of way, historical revisionism of the future. You can err on the side of education, such as with A City on Mars, or with entertainment, such as Project Hail Mary, but the goal of Hard Science Fiction is to not only be narratively “true,” but factually as well.

With Kindness With a knife I have cut the cake into slices. Little slices, big slices, some get the flowers. Here is your slice, here is mine. You cannot have my slice. It is for me. That one is yours. Aren’t you grateful to me? And my knife? Original Post With Kindness

Manifest RPG Design Blog About After reading so many RPGs, playing so many RPGs, and thinking about everything that is the medium of RPG, I decided I needed to put my money where my mouth is, and actually create an RPG. The following are the posts of me detailing my thought processes. Posts Introduction First Steps Setting Manifestations Emotions Bond and Tier Static Versus Dynamic Dice Sync Special Effects Conditions Death Agents Abilities A Complete Rework Ruleset 0.

Here is a collection of all my short stories: Last Tea Shop This story was made using the solo RPG Last Tea Shop (Classic), by Spring Villager. The Stablehand The Tailor Rat Queen This story was made using the solo Neuroqueer RPG Rattenkönigin, by Abbax. Rat Queen The Game Moves Lighthouse at the End of the World This short story was created through playing Lighthouse at the End of the World, a solo journaling RPG by Bannerless Games.

Welcome one and all, to my collection of all my books, short stories, posts, musings, and other little oddscrawls that crawled across my brain. This website may change format semi-regularly as I experiment with format and schedule; I appreciate your patience as this repository evolves. Currently, I am involved in uploading the following projects: My RPG A bit of an experiment, I’m making my own RPG. Putting some of my studies to use, I’m looking to make a new kind of strategic RPG that is both simple to learn/play and strategically deep.