Viva Le Roi!
Over the last decade the internet has collectively decided that any holiday celebrated by Christians or Americans should be marked with lots of snarky condescension and derision of the celebration. In that spirit, let’s take this Bastille Day to remember that the birth of the French Republic was accompanied...
Void Pirates Roster
After an interesting experience learning about stat priorities in Void Pirates I took a swing through the wilds of the net for a decent character roster and found a whole lot of nothing. So I built one myself, and now you have one too! It’s not great, but it’s...
Adventures of the Blackraven
The first game of the Adventures of the Blackraven has come and gone. In this project, I used the campaign tables from Five Parsecs from Home to generate the quartet of space faring ne’er-do-wells plying the shipping and smuggling routes way out on the fringes. Once I had personalities...
Wargaming Goulash
Going to start up a new mini-campaign using the excellent “Void Pirates” as the framework, then flesh things out with the “Five Parsecs From Home” flavor-book. My first stab at GoalSystem might be a little rough, so I’ve decided to run a four man scoundrel crew against a look...
The Absolute Madman
If your soul could use a little chicken soup, give A Man For All Seasons, a watch. When Robert Bolt used the words All Seasons in the title, he meant it. And thoughtful modern viewers will find themselves sympathizing and understanding the plight of Saint Thomas More as he stands...
On the Penultimate Men
Celebrate your independence from authors that hate you, the good, the beautiful, and the true. You should pick up your copy of The Penultimate Men today, and I’ll tell you why. For starters, it includes a new Morty and Kyrus story from Schuyler Hernstrom. If you have read any...
The Death of the American Conversation
Why are things so shrill now? We used to have big, sprawling conversation that roamed all over the place. We used to talk about politics a little bit, and the latest sporting event a little bit, and the latest big TV show event a little bit, and the weather,...
A Paladin in Sloretown
For the record, that was my uber-powered Paladin trashing the tracks of the Jeffro Pacific Express Freight to Funkytown. Before we get into the view from the player side of the screen, a confession: I used this generator to roll up a fighter type and got the stats for...
The Humanity
This is what the site of the Hindenberg disaster looks like these days. With just a simple plaque immortalizing the victims of the terrible accident. It’s on a military base, so it doesn’t get many visitors these days. I stopped to say a few Aves for thee, lads. Godspeed...
The Summer of The Crucible
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is now widely recognized among honest brokers as a flagrant bit of squid ink meant to protect his fellow Death Cultists. As Miller himself admits, “[The] power to stir fears… was not entirely based on illusion, of course; the paranoid, real or pretended, always secretes its...