What should marmotfolk look like?
The marmotfolk live in the bone mountains called The Ribs of the Father, in an uneasy equilibrium with the pow...
2018-07-12 00:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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Teaser: what comes after came before
While I'm working on wrapping up the UVG, I've also been working on an adjacent project. It's still only a codename and hints of pictures I've released in the past on G+ and other social media, but wh...
2018-07-05 02:14:25 +0000 UTC View PostUVG Update 14 - The Dead Bridge and the Dark Light Passage
The Ultraviolet Grasslands continue, with voyagers reaching the Chasm that divides the great steppe from the western ridges and finally, that locus of the imagination, the Black City.
T...
Writing Continues and an Interlude
Hello everybody, patrons, followers, and casual visitors. Writing continues on Update 14 and it is nearly ready. All that is still waiting is a breakdown on the long-distance encounter rules and the p...
2018-06-24 23:23:57 +0000 UTC View PostOver 300
Wow! I expected this, but still ... it was unexpected. I check in, and we're over the 300 mark. There is little to say here, except: well done and welcome!
I would certainly never have written this ...
2018-06-17 00:38:38 +0000 UTC View PostIntermezzo: Musica
I tend to greet everyone who joins personally, and get a bit of a conversation going ... and I've been falling behind on that. I'll get around to it. Totally.
But, till then, greetings and welcome, ...
2018-06-13 13:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostNeon Ziggurat [Wallpaper]
Tim requested if I could share share the Neon Ziggurat in wallpaper size. Well, here it is - 2560x1440 pixels - only lightly marred by the attribution at bottom left.
Built of massive limes...
2018-05-31 02:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostUVG Update 13 - Of Spectrum Satraps and Ivory Plains
Welcome, patrons, to update 13!
Every sixtieth day the Grand Observer of the Rotations of the Wheels manifests precisely 217 meters due north of the third portal to hand down a Prophecy Out...
OVER 100!
The poster says it all. You wonderful, crazy people, supporting a strange illustrated gamebook grown out of a mishmash of arty comic books, post-modernist sociology cross-polinated with brutalist arch...
2018-05-25 10:52:07 +0000 UTC View Post$200 Boundary Breach
In less than a week since I published the free introduction, new heroes have joined in their tens, and brought us through the psychological $200 boundary. I'm still amazed and astounded and half-disbe...
2018-05-16 06:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostA Free Introduction to the Ultraviolet Grasslands
Dear patrons and casual browsers.
This is a free, 78-page art-packed introduction to the psychedelic metal pointcrawl that are the Ultraviolet Grasslands. It covers less than a fifth of the...
2018-05-07 14:31:42 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate 12: The Ribs and the Cage Run
Whew! Made it! Nearly there, four more updates and the main body of the Ultraviolet Grasslands will be complete.
This was an art-heavy update. Besides the two areas - the bone mountain known as the ...
2018-04-29 02:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostBehind the Scenes
One thing I've wanted to add for a while (but hadn't before) is a crawling biomechanical factory (the source fac in area 3, I think).<br><br>Yesterday I playtested the first half - it work...
2018-04-26 02:35:38 +0000 UTC View PostPlaytesting Report - April 2018
(yes, the piece of art is older, but it's just there to make the post a wee bit more colorful!)
I'm running an offline group of ttrpg newbies through the UVG, and testing various subsystems...
2018-04-19 02:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostSpring of the Yellow Water
This was one of the first points of interest I wrote up in the UVG. A thousand-foot deep submerged cavern filled with treasures and horrors.
2018-04-11 03:13:36 +0000 UTC View PostUVG 11bis: caravans among the refracting trees
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Yes, I know the secrets of the iron and mind
They’re trinity acts, a mineral fire
Yes, I know the secrets of the circuitry mind
It’s a flaming wonder telepath
2018-03-29 04:00:56 +0000 UTC
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Behind the Scenes (BtS): Crystal Pylon
You might recall one of the earliest points of interest, aka. mini locations, in the UVG: the Crystal Pylon. Or you might not, it's pretty forgetable:
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Crystal Pylon (+...
2018-03-28 04:48:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Caravan Sheet \m/
Greetings, dear patrons!
The February-and-March update continues to drag along slowly. You may well be wondering: what in blazes is Luka up to? Has he given up the ghost? Has he the flu, or the...
Draft of the Map of the UV Grasslands.
"Luka! Why are you taking so long?!"
"Because I'm really busy, damnit!"
"You had one job."
"No, actually, it was more like two ..."
"I don't care."
"Fine, here's part of the ...
2018-03-20 10:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostDrawing the UVG
I've mostly been posting just finished updates, but ... sometimes a peek behind the ivory curtain is also interesting. A lot of my creative process is a dialogue between my drawings and my writing.<...
2018-03-13 05:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe Porcelain Throne in 3D
I was just blown away tonight. A good friend of mine, Peter Leban, a long time player and now a DM in his own right, is also a 3D artist and a few weeks ago he mentioned how much he loved the Porcelai...
2018-03-12 13:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostCover and a revised Misfortune mechanic
Hello patrons!
One of the things that the next update is bringing is a divergence. The appendix and glossaries are becoming their own thing, while the UVG is getting a bit more rigorous structure an...
2018-03-07 02:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grass Colossus and Vagabonds of Long Ago
This is an excerpt from a wholly different module I'm working on, that deals with the fall of an ancient city, its plunder and destruction. As I sent it off to the editor, he said, "Oh, this is se...
2018-02-21 03:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostUVG 10 - Three Sticks Lake
The Stratometaship continues to journey west, inching closer and closer to the Black City. The first update of 2018 and it's a massive on! In fact, so large I couldn't neatly fit all the new pieces in...
2018-02-13 08:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostMadame Red Star, First Servant of Red Bear
This mini-update is an excerpt from Three Sticks Lake - an over-detailed region of the central Ultraviolet Grasslands. A perfect location if you want to start with a party of Icemen (see glossary ...
2018-02-07 01:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostInstead of a January Update
Where is the monthly UVG? What is going on? Has it died?
No, no. The UVG is fine. Most of the update is written, most of the art is ready, but I've had a month so packed with family, travel...
2018-01-30 14:06:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt's 2018! Once more into the orbital breech!
First, a happy new year. You've been great, and you're the reason the UVG has grown the way it has. I wish you all the best, many weird voyages, memorable adventures, and good friends found in games a...
2018-01-09 14:12:06 +0000 UTC View PostUVG 9 - Near Moon and Far Places
Last update of the year! We've made it to the Moon River, in sight of the swollen Near Moon, on the frontiers of Satrap Domains. Whoah. This update has been pretty major, including:
-two new ar...
The Moon-facing Ford is Near and a New Year Competition
Hello, my fine and dear patrons! First, a happy xmas and a merry new year, since we're in that seasonal period. I've weathered most of the family holidays, and hope you have, too.
We've also weather...
2017-12-28 09:26:10 +0000 UTC View PostLanguages of the Rainbow Lands
This free mini-update is an excerpt from the Glossary expansion of December's update to the UVG (it's going to be UVG-9). It's cozy and cuddly, but I haven't put it into a .pdf because layout take...
2017-12-15 03:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post