The Rule of the Jungle and the self-invasive species

The Rule of the Jungle and the self-invasive species

This just squeaks in as my contribution to this month's Blog Carnival, hosted this time round at Hereticwerks with the theme Invasive Species.It's partly inspired by the recent release of sixth seventh edition 40K and rerelease of past fifth editions of D&D, and...
Digging the Gravelands

Digging the Gravelands

Have you seen this? While I was in stasis, Hereticwerks released a first shortform module, GL-1, Taglar's Tomb.It's a revised and expanded take on a site they posted for Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day last year. If you're a regular reader, you know what I...
Weapon patterns, marks and mods, and the squearoll

Weapon patterns, marks and mods, and the squearoll

This has been on the list a while. It was sparked off by a discussion on weapons in 40K at an old Outside the Box, but could work for all kinds of games using dice to resolve success and failure.The starting point was the fact 40K is nearly 27 years old now, in which...
Near future wor*fare

Near future wor*fare

When mum came back from the war her skin was on inside out and she was crapping through a hatch in her belly button. That was nothing. Last time she'd coughed her lungs up and if not for the nanopills we'd have needed to stuff them back in ourselves. Like we did with...

Status report – 2013

Before I start posting again proper, here's a second annual status report, to follow last year's. It's the subset of the material I posted here in 2013 that I think is the most useful.There were 73 posts in all, well off earlier years, which is partly because there...