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A Realist’s Guide to the Fantastical World

About

Long Ago and Far Away was an old PBS show hosted by James Earl Jones. With a brief introduction, the show was a vehicle for children’s stories, oftentimes from foreign countries or based on old folk-tales.

I had an old VHS with several of the shows recorded on it, and I watched it regularly. One of the introductions had James Earl Jones reading an atlas, looking at maps of far-off lands including “The Cheese Palace of Pushka, capital of Brotzt,” “the Kingdom of Zeep,” and the “Outer Minor Mutaan Islands.”

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

Cemetery of Swords

This poem was made using the solo RPG Cemetery of Swords, by Efarrisgames.

• The Poem
• The Game Moves

Gentleman Bandit

This poem was made using the solo RPG Gentleman Bandit, by Allison Arth. I used the Mode variant, and played three times, rolling on the Poker Play table after each.

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.

NOTE: All references to games and RPG systems are to be considered “as of writing.” New versions of games might render some of my comments inaccurate.

Here is a collection of all my short stories:

Caveat Emptor

This story was made using the solo RPG Caveat Emptor, by Exeunt Press.

• The First Customer
• The Second Customer
• The Third Customer
• The Fourth and Fifth Customer
• The Sixth Customer
• The Last Day
• The Game Moves

Grimdark Future

• My thoughts on Fan Fiction

Translation

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Freedom

• Part 1
• Part 2

Reborn

• Part 1
• Part 2

Monster Hunter

This story was made using the solo RPG Monster Hunter, by La esquina del rol.

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.

Short Stories

When I worked downtown, I spent my train commute writing. This resulted in a lot of short stories of varying quality. Add to this the short-stories I’ve written since, and it’s become quite a list. Rather than over-work my brain sorting the wheat from the chaff, I will upload every short story here, and make you sort through it all.

RPG Errata

I found some more interesting things to say about RPGs! An addendum to my original Treatise, with some more games and rambling thoughts. Uploads whenever I think of something more to say.

Stormcallers

A flawed work that I think still has some good points worth exploring. I’ll probably re-address this work in the future, but for now it’s going to serve as a marker for how far I’ve come.

Personal Posts

Anything else that pops into my head. Feel free to skip these if you’re not in the mood…