Month: August 2017

Ride the Star Wind available for preorder!

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Hey, look at that:  The forthcoming Broken Eye Books anthology Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird (edited by ​Scott Gable & C. Dombrowski) is available for preorders now, over on Amazon.com! It will contain a story of mine titled “Vol de Nuit” that is, well, kind of existential Lovecraftian space horropera. Imagine a raw, bloody Space: 1999 steak mashed into a big plate of Lovecraft  I know, I know, I don’t usually write about spaceship fighter pilots blasting their weapons off into the silent void against implacable, inhuman enemies, though, well… when it’s a Great Old One …

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Cover Me! (#RPGaDay 2017, Day 5)

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: Which RPG cover best captures the spirit of the game? I’m not sure my response is particularly useful or interesting, though I find it interesting to think about what I came up with. Here’s a shot at answering it.

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Grapevines & Geeksites (#RPGaDay 2017, Day 3)

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: How do you find out about new RPGs? I imagine I do it the way most people do now, if they don’t live in a city with an active gamer community.  That is, I have two sources of information: fellow gamers buddies, and the internet.  To be more specific, I have a couple of good friends who’re also RPGers, and who were more firmly ensconced in the hobby when I’d just come back to it. One of them actually suggested I submit …

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The Computer Is Your Friendly Lovecraftian Letter Carrier Who is a Bullshitting Baron in Disguise (#RPGaDay 2017, Day 1)

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Note: Yeah, this is a day late. I’d written it a few days ago and scheduled it for yesterday at noon, but somehow scheduling’s broken on my WordPress installation. I’ll be publishing today’s post (#2) in a few hours. August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: What published RPG do you wish you were playing right now? I’m going to say it’s a toss-up between three: Paranoia (the XP edition) and Michal Oracz’s De Profundis, and James Wallis’ The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Here’s why:

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