In other self-publishing news, Anthony Hunter (cartographer for Weird Adventures) has launched Sleeping Griffin Productions. He's putting out layered pdf maps various sorts for personal or small press use. Check them out.
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Showing posts with label reader submissions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reader submissions. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2014
Plugs, Shameless and Otherwise
Christopher Helton, tabletop gaming writer for the entertainment site Bleeding Cool debuted his first post on self-published rpgs yesterday, shining it's spotlight on Jason Sholtis's Dungeon Dozen, Jack Shear's Planet Motherf*cker, and my very own Weird Adventures. It was great to be asked to participate. The primary result seems to be more traffic to the Weird Adventures Companion post. All I can say guys is: It is coming, but I have no ETA. I'm planning to get it out the door after Strange Stars.
In other self-publishing news, Anthony Hunter (cartographer for Weird Adventures) has launched Sleeping Griffin Productions. He's putting out layered pdf maps various sorts for personal or small press use. Check them out.
In other self-publishing news, Anthony Hunter (cartographer for Weird Adventures) has launched Sleeping Griffin Productions. He's putting out layered pdf maps various sorts for personal or small press use. Check them out.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Tagged
Mark, the self-styled evil DM, over at The DM's Screen (check it out) tagged me in one of these blog questionaire sort of things. I'm not going to tak part in the chain-letter part, but I will be a good sport and answer Mark's questions
1. What made you decide to write a blog?
A friend of mine who got tired of listening to my game-related ideas suggested it.
2. What would you say has been the highlight of your blogging career to date?
Publishing Weird Adventures. Get your copy today!
3. Name your favourite animal.
A liger. Ok, not really. I don't know that I have a nonextinct one.
4. What has been the best thing to ever happen to you?
Answering the next question. Seriously though, I don't know how to compare various good things on the same scale.
5. You are in a lift with a Nun, a middle-aged business man, a Karl Marx look-alike, a twenty-something female charity worker and Stephen Hawking. The lift shudders to a stop, the lights go out. There is a high-pitched scream followed by a thud. The lights come on and the Nun is lying dead on the floor with a knife in her chest. Who did it and why?
Is she actually dead or does she just appear dead? If she's not faking, I would say they're all in on it together. It will sound more plausible when I'm wearing a deerstalker cap and smoking a pipe. Which, of course, I would be in the elevator.
6. Name your favourite colour.
To wear: gray. Just as a color: orange.
7. What has been the scariest thing to ever happen to you?
Automobile accident.
8. You are about to break the world record for the tallest house of cards in front of a crowded room of onlookers and world press. All of a sudden, some idiot parent allows their errant child to charge over, knocking into your table, sending your world record beating attempt crashing around you. What do you do next?
Shake my fist in impotent rage and scream to the heavens.
9. If you had to spend a month on a tropical island, what four luxury items do you take with you?
Internet access.
10. Once on your tropical island you are allowed to have one person of your choice to stay with you. Now this can be anyone famous, living or dead, fictional and from any period of time/history - loved ones are not allowed - who do you choose and why?
Someone with the power of teleportation so I could leave the island when I wanted.
11. What has been the worst impulse purchase of a totally useless item (one you convinced yourself into believing you needed, but didn't)? What was it, and do you still have it?
About the worse impulse purchases I've ever made are books I probably won't read. I guess I'm either pretty frugal or either I just don't regret much.
1. What made you decide to write a blog?
A friend of mine who got tired of listening to my game-related ideas suggested it.
2. What would you say has been the highlight of your blogging career to date?
Publishing Weird Adventures. Get your copy today!
3. Name your favourite animal.
A liger. Ok, not really. I don't know that I have a nonextinct one.
4. What has been the best thing to ever happen to you?
Answering the next question. Seriously though, I don't know how to compare various good things on the same scale.
5. You are in a lift with a Nun, a middle-aged business man, a Karl Marx look-alike, a twenty-something female charity worker and Stephen Hawking. The lift shudders to a stop, the lights go out. There is a high-pitched scream followed by a thud. The lights come on and the Nun is lying dead on the floor with a knife in her chest. Who did it and why?
Is she actually dead or does she just appear dead? If she's not faking, I would say they're all in on it together. It will sound more plausible when I'm wearing a deerstalker cap and smoking a pipe. Which, of course, I would be in the elevator.
6. Name your favourite colour.
To wear: gray. Just as a color: orange.
7. What has been the scariest thing to ever happen to you?
Automobile accident.
8. You are about to break the world record for the tallest house of cards in front of a crowded room of onlookers and world press. All of a sudden, some idiot parent allows their errant child to charge over, knocking into your table, sending your world record beating attempt crashing around you. What do you do next?
Shake my fist in impotent rage and scream to the heavens.
9. If you had to spend a month on a tropical island, what four luxury items do you take with you?
Internet access.
10. Once on your tropical island you are allowed to have one person of your choice to stay with you. Now this can be anyone famous, living or dead, fictional and from any period of time/history - loved ones are not allowed - who do you choose and why?
Someone with the power of teleportation so I could leave the island when I wanted.
11. What has been the worst impulse purchase of a totally useless item (one you convinced yourself into believing you needed, but didn't)? What was it, and do you still have it?
About the worse impulse purchases I've ever made are books I probably won't read. I guess I'm either pretty frugal or either I just don't regret much.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Reader's Choice: Images of the City
From time to time, blogging compatriots and readers thoughtfully send me images they think might have a place in the City and its Strange New World. Today, I thought I'd present some of those, and to continue with the community theme, ask readers to comment on which caption they prefer for each image--and write-ins are welcome, too, should you be so moved. You choose how it fits in:
A. Thexter Gorch, adventurer and master of pogonomancy. Also, jug-player for the Smaragdine Mountain Boys.
B. Everyone was surprised when Ethyn chose the lich's beard as his share of the loot. We were even more surprised when we saw it fixed to his face--and growing--a few weeks later. No one was surprised when his personality began to change...
A. When the killings started, they'd always say, "She's only a little girl," and "The beast is stuffed." They never suspected her...and that's what made Little Emmie such a deadly assassin.
B. I must warn you: if you should ever chance to look at this photo and the alligator is not in it, you must act swiftly and decisively, but above all, you mustn't panic. The alligator, you see, will be behind you...and it will be hungry.
A. After his misadventure in the Outer Planes, they were forced into a strange relationship. They were lovers by night when he was whole, but in daylight she guarded his skeleton against etheric parasites and unscrupulous collectors.
B. Even by the standards of ghouls, Eulalie was perverse. She only consumed men whom she had first seduced into a torrid, but brief, affair.
A. The fae blood manifests itself in the afflicted children of Grand Lludd in a variety of ways.
B. He was raised as a normal boy in every way possible, save for his isolation. The cultists wished him to be unaware of his origins until all was in readiness, and the stars were right.
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| Supplied by John Stater |
B. Everyone was surprised when Ethyn chose the lich's beard as his share of the loot. We were even more surprised when we saw it fixed to his face--and growing--a few weeks later. No one was surprised when his personality began to change...
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| Suggested by Adam Nowak |
B. I must warn you: if you should ever chance to look at this photo and the alligator is not in it, you must act swiftly and decisively, but above all, you mustn't panic. The alligator, you see, will be behind you...and it will be hungry.
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| Suggested by Sean at Sea of Stars RPG Design |
B. Even by the standards of ghouls, Eulalie was perverse. She only consumed men whom she had first seduced into a torrid, but brief, affair.
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| Suggested by timid traveller |
B. He was raised as a normal boy in every way possible, save for his isolation. The cultists wished him to be unaware of his origins until all was in readiness, and the stars were right.
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