fantasy
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At about 100 pages and 16,000 words, I think I’m at what might be described as the minimum viable product, which is to say that I believe the game is now playable. The problem is that now I need to get this all formatted using a program called Affinity, and I gots to tell ya…
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All about durability, harvesting, crafting, and poison. The Pink Moon Hack describes a broken, postapocalyptic kind of world. The war with the gods spread wastelands but also led to the loss of usable metals on the planet. Because weapons are made of bone, of wood, of chitin, of stone, they have a tendency to break…
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Limitation is a big part of this world, as you may be able to tell from the post about the worldbuilding. It’s a world in decay, devastated by centuries of war with the gods. A history of dead gods, of gods who abandoned humanity, and so on. This is the world that the magic entered.…
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Going to do something simple today and just lay out a bunch of the worldbuilding background to the game here. Most of this is still subject to change, but it will give you an idea of the type of game you’re getting into. This will come in two parts. First will be the opening to…
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I kept thinking and noodling over the dice pool mechanics and have decided to just lean into simplicity. As much as I love the mechanical elegance of dice pools from Dogs in the Vineyard and how you can turn every interaction into a conflict with mechanical elements, there’s something clean and easy about just rolling…
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Because I have other projects I’m working on, I haven’t been working as hard or fast on this as my wife would like, but I jumped back into it last night and now again today. We got some interesting feedback from my sister in law, though. While I was aiming for lush, evocative prose, trying…
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I think I’ve figured out an interesting little structure for this novel. Since the series is made up of a lot of bitesized chapters, I’m going to play with that a bit here. It starts with these same kind of short, punchy chapters, but I think I’m going to make the meat of this novel…
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The prologue has changed dramatically since posting it in here, which will someday make for an interesting point of contrast. I dropped a character from the novel, exchanged him with one who will be central to the rest of the book, and also beefed up most of what was there. The original prologue was about…
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What’s this? Am I not already writing a novel? Well, yes, but I want to tell you a bit about this new novel. I suppose you could say this blog is an attempt at transparency, at explicating what it means to be a writer, at what goes into writing books. My wife is not a…
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We’re leaping forward! Had a bit of inspiration last night on how to make this whole thing move and groove and so now I’m running forward on Goblin Fire, the final book in this Arc. It’ll all be included and packaged together in the Broken Katana omnibus that’s heading to Kickstarter next month. My goal…