I know that I haven't posted anything in ages. I'm just going to pretend it isn't like this ^^

Guess what: The next Heidelcon starts on the 25th with yours truly trying to get their butt out of the swamp of the same-old roleplaying swamp. I am trying to gm GURPS Technomancer for the first time. That means a pretty much straight-out-of-the-box magic ( Read more... )

We (i.e. the Creative Writing Group Heidelberg) have published For a Fistful of Stories and are doing a Western reading this Thursday. I know, everybody who reads this blog already knows about this, but I just couldn't not make a post about it. So, if nothing else I present you our nifty flier:


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In an astonishing move the good voters of our nations voted in a conservative-liberal government despite the current crisis that has been precipitated by those very same elements in the US. One might call this an unusual case of surrogate Stockholm Syndrome, but I rather stick to the old adage from the last Weimar elections: "Nur die allerdümmsten ( Read more... )

He was panting. His pursuers were running him ragged. He wondered, if they would ever give up. He must have crossed half the city already. The stabbing pain in his lungs told him that he wouldn't be able to keep running much longer, but for now there wasn't anything else he could do. Looking frantically for a place to hide, he ducked behind a ( Read more... )

The BBC had one over the TAZ on this:

Lithuania backs child censor bill

Seems like the censors are a on the march again. Protection of children from any danger has been used as a good enough excuse for limiting civil rights time and again. Lately that seems to include protection from any material that conservatives* deem inappropriate. While I'm not ( Read more... )

A map of an underused region in the Forgotten Realms. I made it using Campaign Cartographer 3 and Cartographer Annual 3. I had to tweak the template quite a bit and redo some of the bitmaps to get the classic FR look. The original presets are much to garish ( Read more... )

Uh yeah, I love my first post anywhere, so I'm not going to say much. This is going to be a place for my maps and stories. Hopefully there'll be a bit more (read: any) activity than over at DA.