Here's a first annual status report, to go with the monthly reports since August. Just like them, it's a selection of the posts, discussions and news here I think is the most useful.
Given there were 298 posts in total, it's a fairly narrow selection. If you're interested in a specific subject, have a look at the label block and the lists lower down the right sidebar.
More popular general labels could be wargaming, roleplaying, 40K and DnD, with some less obvious choices being propluristemic content (gaming material for no one system), community, SNW (posts linking to material at blogs in the top two rolls) and philosophy.
So here we go then, my pick of the posts at the Expanse for the 12 months just gone.
Given there were 298 posts in total, it's a fairly narrow selection. If you're interested in a specific subject, have a look at the label block and the lists lower down the right sidebar.
More popular general labels could be wargaming, roleplaying, 40K and DnD, with some less obvious choices being propluristemic content (gaming material for no one system), community, SNW (posts linking to material at blogs in the top two rolls) and philosophy.
So here we go then, my pick of the posts at the Expanse for the 12 months just gone.
- The 26 possible new genres - an A-Z running from archeopunk through to zombie derival - as well as a definition and plenty of starting ideas for sly-fi
- The first ten cards in a 'GM-substitute' deck, designed mainly for wargames
- A community project for paths among settings - The Ends - with the list so far and a look at an aspect of portals between IPs: Star Trek meets 40K
- Thoughts on dice, as fate particles or networked, and ambient random
- Two discussions with James S, the first on people in fiction and creating mythology, the second on the quality and essence of sci-fi and fantasy
- Modified Vancian magic and the idea of fighter schools for OD&D-likes, plus a one-page adventure, In Search of the City of the Serpent Queen
- Various random tables, including failed dungeons, rumour accuracy, stray thoughts, bio-fortifications and 100 items lost and found on a Rogue Spacer
- Plenty more homebrew for Rogue Space, especially item availability and pricing and three factions: the Empyric Citiʒants, the Trippies and the Orəq.
- Circles Turn, a write-up of a trip to Zilgor's Repose, a Hereticwerks creation
- SinSynn's table for six Imperial citizen types and 40K rules not yet seen
- The 'AltHammer' idea for mixed 40K timelines proposed by garrisonjames
- That braner idea - the noö-braner, six aspects to blend and two weapons
- A third Transpluristemic, the information system calling itself the Interknut
- Four more unusual forms for life - the commerve, the Lobian sheetworm, the ceramic monitor commune and, for Monstrous Monday, the Betwixt
- Inspiration for more lifeforms in three video interviews, covering emergence with Lynn Margulis, the limits with Brian May and yeast with Frank Zappa
- A few thoughts on a more radical consistency in fantasy worldbuilding
- The bionik head and torso of the second Ork for the Porky models series
- Speculation as to who might own GW's IP, musings on the company in the mainstream media and 1, 2 brief updates on the Chaperhouse action
- An introduction and 11 hexes in Sector V3 on the shared world Kepler 22-B
- An alternative approach to celestial body classification, with two d4 tables
- A first post on apocalypses - for world-eating - plus thoughts on surviving
- More short flash fiction, including pieces on the dice rolling their players, a possible source of control, the hungers of the flesh and discovering the self
- Rules for an off-the-tabletop game to be played at events like conventions
- The first two entries in a series of chess scenarios, Cat's Away and Viva La
- Two entries in an Appendix OSR, on unusual economies and Marcia Lucas
- And, re the Expanse, preventing spam (still none) and spam as rogue AI
I won an award too and listed 10 blogs that were dormant but worth reading still, and if you want to know more about this blog, I got tagged and answered 11 questions here.
I also published a gaming tool - Triffles: Abandoned Space - for developing narratives.
Finally then, to follow the lead of the monthly reports, a video to sum up the mood for the whole year. Finding one for all of this was tricky; it comes from Altered States. Be aware before clicking - it has a strobe-like effect and a mild nakedness, and may be unsettling.
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