Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
Is mental health as important as physical health? Not yet. But will it be? Is overall societal well-being as important as the greater physical well-being? Who knows? Maybe one day. Recent reports have said that founders of some social networking platforms have said that they are “ripping apart society.” Not only that but some have…
I have resurrected my interest in Niven-Known Space setting, starting with the Ringworld setting. I am going to re-read the Ringworld books and use the resources I have at hand to come up with a trilogy of adventures for conventions. The real question is can Savage Worlds capture the essence of Niven’s vision. I see Known Space…
I watched The Motion Picture again yesterday. It was the first time in a very long time. I was trying to get a better understanding of the disappointment in that movie. I was disappointed but not as viscerally as some of my older ST:TOS fan friends. There are some subtleties that I saw that might…
This is the first time I played this game with the new expansions. Both were played with a 4 player game, leaving the Romulans out. I think most of the players played conservatively at the beginning. That tends to make the game go longer. I was the Feds and I purposely tried to always find…
My Savage Blood & Suns game at MACE 2017. Ice Station Schatzgräber. The crafts included the ruined New York City block (New York was nuked in 1942 in this timeline), the initiative Savage Skulls in use, and the pièce de résistance – the Ice Station V2 Launch Bay where the final battle occurred. A two table…
Some crafts I used in my Shatterzone RPG at MACE 2017 – billowing fires (explosions), and body markers. Inspired by many crafts from here. This game went well but took too long. I decided to do a random encounter en-route from Point A to point B and while fun, it took too long. I did…
Fri 8 pm – 12 am: Shatterzone Xenos Alpha I play tested this at RonCon. I am not sure how well this is going to go. I never ran SZ at a Con because of its complexities. I am going to try my best to nail those down and avoid book diving, but it may be…
This is an award winning UK sci-fi space short film made Backyard Productions UK as part of the “Darkwave universe.” Set in a world where rare crystals – called Starlight Crystals – make FTL flight possible, it shows that even with a low budget and actors working for free, you can still tell a damn good story. I write about this because I really feel that this Darkwave setting REALLY needs to be written up as an RPG setting. Someone really needs to approach these guys with the idea.
This guy has a lot to say about Star Trek, and I largely agree. He hits on an important point about old and new Star Trek that can be applied broadly. Star Trek, however, illustrates it more poignantly because it has a considerable amount of history, as well as intelligence built into it. It also had a single man behind it…
How about that for a tag line! That’ll get the snowflakes a-fluttering. I only write the occasional rant because I have a thought and the only way I can completely flesh it out is write it down. I imagine in my head, if I were to call into a certain conservative radio talk show, what…