Last week I blogged about my rough ideas on the character diamond. I’ve gotten a lot of positive responses to it, and we even talked about it internally at work. Since I posted, I’ve become a little less enamored with the side traits (I don’t seem to be using them much, and they feel like [...]
After my post yesterday, I got into a comic book vibe and spent a number of hours poking at my ever-evolving superhero game, Marvelous Superheroes. I just put up a zip file of the 0.2 version on the “Free Stuff” page, in case you want to take a look at it. I realized that, as [...]
One of the things I’ve always had kicking around in the back of my head was doing a story or series of stories using characters in the public domain. I think some of this comes from the incredible League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comics, not the movie), but it goes back further than that. I’ve [...]
Chuck Wendig was talking about hyperbole today, and I mentioned that his ideas were similar to the character diamonds that I’ve started using at work. He asked me to explain, and I realized that I couldn’t easily explain in a comment field. So I’m hashing this out on my blog because I have more space. [...]
Not a lot of time to blog today – I’ve got to get caught up on some work this weekend, and I’m going through paperwork as we pack for out house move in a couple of weeks. I’m the process of going through said paperwork, though, I came across my notes from the various creative [...]
(“Rasenna and the Realms” sounds like a cover band name.) Today I originally wasn’t going to play D&D. Then I said I could, which led to it possibly happening, which led to it definitely happening, which led to it not happening. So, I’m left with some unexpected free time tonight, so I thought it would [...]