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Hinterspace Notes #4
I’m continuing to enjoy the background process of shapng the Hinterspace setting for Cepheus Deluxe. To keep me motivated, I’m using the notes and images I have created as the setting for a convention game this year. I’ve taken one … Continue reading
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Cepheus Deluxe Characters
I’ve started creating Cepheus Deluxe characters for the convention games to come this year. The character generation is very simple and quick, but the thought processes around the procedure are longer and require more invention. That’s pretty much how it … Continue reading
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Wayfarer – Hope in the Darkness
Wayfarer is a working title for an RPG based on a blend of the Open Content in Sword of Cepheus, Cepheus Deluxe, and Of Realms Unbounded. A hopepunk fantasy of heroes that bring change for the better, saving, preserving and … Continue reading
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Hinterspace Notes #1
Holiday Tuesday and I’m scribbling for my Hinterspace Cepheus Deluxe setting. Seem to have dallied on how longevity is managed, including newly available life extension treatments in the Empire of Stars (EOS), and unsuccessful attempts at sentience syphoning to quantum … Continue reading
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Looking Back and Forward to 2022
This is a gaming review and some thoughts on what 2022 might bring for me. For context, I retire at the end of March 2022, so I will have much more time for everything, includng the gaming hobby. We head … Continue reading
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Character Premise
Player characters with a premise are easier to play as distinct and deeper personas, with a story to tell in the game you are playing. A premise is a prior set of statements from which a plot develops and has … Continue reading
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Eventide
I’m having some innocent fun with Traveller setting building, just as a thought exercise and to squeeze some creative juices. This was precipitated by the acquisition of the new Cepheus Deluxe, a really wonderful version of Traveller. I talk about … Continue reading
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Starships Riding Fire Across The Sky
Starships riding fire across the sky. Heroes and villains exchanging laser fire. Desperate spacers struggling against an alien monstrosity. Vast planetary vistas, flying cities, moonscapes, mad robots, and first encounters. In short: high-action science-fiction adventure that stimulates your sense of … Continue reading
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Some Like It Temperate
As enthralled as I am by the Fantasy D20 thing, I have gaming space for other things, and North Star has got me back into space via Traveller, a foundational RPG that I reminisced about last year on the Podcast. … Continue reading
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A light brush with physics
Or… back to some Traveller. Back in the day, the Traveller starter set, my introduction to the game, had the most useful starship system travel formulae in the main book, but these have been removed by Mongoose from their versions. … Continue reading
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