Roleplaying

I was playing with Pastiche this morning and I tried feeding it a variety of texts. What struck me was how badly different texts from different authors meshed together, or didn’t. This was a different text. I wanted a different feel for an adventure. I was hoping for something a bit more Dark Fantasy, but … Read more

My first version of the cut up module was a dismal failure. There is an add on module that allows you to import CSV lists as tables. I was using that and imported all 16921 snippets into a single table. I thought that if the table imported, that would be the single biggest overhead. I … Read more

Today I put out my first Cut Up Solo supplement. The source material as you will probably know by now is The Hour of the Dragon, the first Conan Novella by Robert E Howard. I have combined the two approaches I talked about last week. The PDF contains 2000 four or five word snippets, arranged … Read more

I have nine projects I would really like to get my teeth into. Starting new projects is really exciting. It involves re-reading the rulebooks just to check that I am playing the game as written and not my own house rules that I just imagine are RAW. It then has me making characters, I often … Read more

There is a joke about waiting for a bus to arrive, only for three to come at once. That is what this week has been like. I knew that Alone in the Dark was going to go platinum, but it sat on exactly 1000 sales for days before finally getting the all important 1001st sale. … Read more