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Clandestyne: A Gaslight Intrigue
This year, my intention for GenCon Australia is to run an old freeform, originally written by myself and Ben Hilton in the late 1990s. I'm motivated by a steampunk LARP that was run at last year's convention, and the quality of costuming that some people put into that event. Folks like Victorian occult and steampunk games, and they'll go to ( Read more... ) -
Submitted for EYECON 2010
Radiance: BELLONA
An era of enlightenment and rediscovery began in the core worlds after the defeat of Terranen, the creation of the Assembly and Armistice, and the establishment of the Intedicted Technology Accords. But in the Periphery beyond the core worlds, humanity still languishes in the dark age of the previous civilisation's Collapse. ( Read more... ) -
GenCon Australia 2009
This is my GenCon Australia experience. It's a long, rambling entry, so ( I'll put most of it behind a cut. ) -
The Whispering Vault - some rules tweaks?
The Whispering Vault is among my old favourite roleplaying games. TWV was my first campaign when I started to run games at UNSW Gameplayers eight or nine years ago, and while we only played about six times or so, I have fond memories of those cold autumn Friday nights. This was some of the first gaming that I did with Lucy, Rachel, and Doug; ( Read more... ) -
Radiance: Roleplaying Game Rules
Radiance games use a dedicated game mechanic based on six-sided and eight-sided dice. Almost all actions and situations in a Radiance scenario are resolved using the same basic rules, described ( under the cut ) -
The Radiance setting
The past of the Radiance setting is deep and nebulous. The first age of humanity's exploration of the galaxy was a time of gradual progress across vast gulfs; the warpgates that allow convenient travel between stars would come much later. The generations that have passed since humanity was confined to a single world are so many that history has ( Read more... ) -
The Science of Radiance
Radiance is a far-future science fiction setting that I used for a linked tabletop scenario and freeform at Sydcon last year, and will revisit in RADIANCE: RELICS at Eye-Con over Easter.
For the most part, Radiance is Plausibly Hard SF, with futuristic science and technology that includes "things that may or may not be possible, but can ( Read more... ) -
Killer Theory
Darkly Dreaming Dexter was released in 2004, and instantly became a hit. Batman Began again the following year, making Warner Brothers another mountain of money. Dexter hit cable TV in 2006, and that's when I knew for sure that something had started swimming around in our collective unconscious. Why else would we suddenly be obsessing about dark ( Read more... ) -
Every Part of this Post is a Lie
A paradox can’t be true, and can’t be false, but has to be real, you understand? It has to be. Paradox is a necessity. You wouldn’t want to live in a world where everything is just true or false.
You know that story about people sealed in building foundations talking to each other late at night? I’ve got this… guy who swears he’s worked out ( Read more... )