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New live Discord link + status update

The old Discord link has, for some reason, stopped working, so here's a new one. Additionally, I've just gotten out of the hospital-- farewell, gall bladder. While recovering, I'm working on the View Post

City of the Bull God

Over the last few months I've been recording Exalted vs World of Darkness sessions for an upcoming Sponso...

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I YET LIVE (General update)

This place hasn't gotten an update in quite a while, because, well, most everything is going on in the Discord channel these days, and because most of what I'm working on I can't TECHNICALLY active...

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Children of Babylon, and a general update

Holy hell it's been a while. Two things to cover here: First, a general "what's up," and then, delicious content.

First of all, I'm not dead, I've just been drowned lately in various sorts of...

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Exalted vs World of Darkness Companion

Response to the release of Exalted vs the World of Darkness has been tremendously gratifying. I had wondered, while working on the project, if it was something that would resonate ...

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Join us on Discord!

My Patreon discord is an active community where you're welcome to yada yada I figured out why I only seem to see a surge of new people in the Discord immediately after I make one of these posts and...

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Riot of the Flesh

Didn't quite expect to get this up today, but here we are. This is one of those things I mentioned that I was working on but couldn't toss up previews of behind a paywall, since it's not my IP.

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Behind behind behind

Currently all tangled up in writing to bring in some income-- writing I can't put behind the Patreon wall as previews, unfortunately-- so I'm behind on updates here and will remain so for a couple ...

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Come see us on Discord

Hello to new patrons, or not-so-new patrons who've been busy or shy or whatever else. The Discord server is still jumping, and if you can see this message then you-- yes, you, personally-- are very...

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Exalted vs the World of Darkness

It’s a world of rain-slick streets screaming neon up at the uncaring stars. A world of smog and industry that chokes lungs and souls with equal glee. A world where vampires hunt the living across...

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Holidaze

Christmas week kicked my ass very, very, very thoroughly. Tonight I'm recovering. I'll have an essay up tomorrow or the day after.

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A note

Update pushed back to tomorrow. Spoon supply very low tonight.

Be good to one another and enjoy the holidays as best you can.

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The Renfield Diaries - Chapter Five complete (?)

Wednesday update, ON Wednesday for a change! Today it's the rest of the Shadow moves for The Renfield Diaries, or at least, a reasonably complete list-- I'd like to get a couple more ...

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The Renfield Diaries - Chapter Five Preview

This week, it's more of The Renfield Diaries. Chapter Five is coming along nicely: this preview has full character creation rules, all role playbooks, and three Shadow move l...

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The Renfield Diaries - Playbooks!

EDIT: Playbooks PDF has been re-uploaded to fix a copy-paste error that was present in the initial version.

A day late update, but an update nonetheless! Fell asleep last night whil...

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Some Thoughts on Fiction in Roleplaying Games

For this week's update, a small gamedev essay.

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Eight or so years ago, some guy on a forum I frequented opined that you can find fiction in roleplaying games because RPG authors are fa...

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The Renfield Diaries - Chapter Four + The Driver

Still working on that a game dev essay as mentioned last week, will have it done in a couple days-- it's grown a bit since I first conceived it. Instead, today we've got a new Renfield Diaries...

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Ironside Express: The Mirror

Apologies for the missed update last week. Had a house guest who I see once a year at best, and between that, Halloween stuff, and midterm jitters... well. We're back, anyway, with another Iro...

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Ironside Express: The Traitor

Good news: Managed to see a doctor and get some antibiotics, feeling a lot better this week. Further good news: we're now into Part Three of Ironside.  As with previous updates, ...

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The Ironside Express: The Ducts

Apologies for the lack of update last week: shenanigans intensified and formed a tag-team with infected lymph nodes. A fun time was not had and continues to not be had.

Today, though, we have a new ...

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D'oh

This week's update is gonna be a couple days late due to shenanigans-- sorry everyone.

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The Renfield Diaries (PDF preview)

Something a little different today-- a rough/beta mockup of the already-previewed sections of The Renfield Diaries. This is of course subject to change, especially if a real art budge...

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The Ironside Express: The Long Watch

Next week I expect to have more game material ready to share, but for today, we've got another Ironside chapter. As with previous updates, this PDF contains the entire story to date, so if yo...

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The Ironside Express: Deeper Into the Night

It's Wednesday, it's update day, it's a new chapter of The Ironside Express. As with previous updates, this PDF contains the entire story to date, so if you haven't read any of it yet, or you...

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The Ironside Express: Questions Over Dinner

Wednesday comes again, and with it a new chapter of The Ironside Express. As with previous updates, this PDF contains the entire story to date, so if you haven't read any of it yet, or you've...

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The Renfield Diaries: Chapter Three (Complete)

Happy Wednesday! For today's update, we've got a completed version of Chapter Three of The Renfield Diaries. This includes not only the remainder of the chapter, but also some touch-u...

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The Renfield Diaries: Chapter Three

Welcome to another Wednesday and another preview. Today we've got a substantial (but not yet complete) chunk of Chapter Three of The Renfield Diaries, covering the setting and its vam...

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The Ironside Express: The Kingdom of Suicide

It's Wednesday here on the East Coast, I've finally got my lungs back in something like working order, and here's a new chapter of Ironside Express! As with previous updates, this PDF contain...

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This August never ends

As I type this I am rolling into day four (?) of "physically unable to stay asleep for more than 20 minutes thanks to coughing" (pneumonia is fun). You have my word that once I've gotten seve...

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The Ironside Express: Sundown in the Wastes

It's Saturday, that's basically the same thing as Friday, right? 

So yeah, after getting back from the vet's yesterday I basically passed out for most of the day as (checks calendar) 15 days of...

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