Category Archives: Writing

Heroic Fantasy 2nd Edition

I have finished a first draft of Heroic Fantasy 2nd Edition, my High Fantasy Black Hack with many twiddles and doo dahs. Although recognisably the same game, it also has changes throughout for this new take. The dice ladder is … Continue reading

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Planning Ahead for 2023

Even now I’m considering which games will feature for me in 2023. Perhaps slightly early, but may represent how my mind works and is just the right side of embarrassing, rather like now seeing the red and green stocked Christmas … Continue reading

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Publishing a Book

 This year I wanted to push through and get myself to a point where I knew how to format text and images such tha I could publish a Print on Demand book, in my case specifically on DrivethruRPG. Although printing … Continue reading

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Published – Always Be Prepared

 Pleased to get ‘Always Be Prepared’, a Cepheus Deluxe Adventure, published on DrivethruRPG. Took some hoops a leaping, and learned a lot on the way. Maybe the next one will be easier?! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/399746/Always-Be-Prepared–a-Cepheus-Adventure

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Always Be Prepared

I’m zeroing in on finishing a small scenario book for Drivethru. It’s going to be print and PDF and gets some Cepheus Deluxe off my brain and out there.   In theory I now follow this up with the full … Continue reading

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Westlands

My Cepheus delight, which is a mere extension of my Traveller delight, is finding broader expression in the fantasy genre. I very much enjoyed ‘Sword of Cepheus’ from Stellagama Publishing, with its tempting open content approach for my own innovation … Continue reading

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Hinterspace Notes #5

 Just messing about with classic covers. Perhaps, If I can crack Publisher, I could get a small adventure out on Drivethru as a precursor to the subsector book?

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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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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 #3

I’m still working on the two page spread for each mainworld system in my Eventide subsector setting. The plan is to have two pages in a standard format per system, with just over thirty systems to record. That gives a … Continue reading

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