The Logbook Project (Max)

My thoughts on Bioware's recent games are complex, but their sudden and frankly disrespectful end is honestly offensive. While they haven't always been at the heart of my gaming history, they've produced a few of my greatest moments. Those memories have made them ever-reliable to me as a designer.

If Montsimmard 9:38 is to be my passionate send-off to Bioware, I don't think I could do much better. There's some really clever stuff in there -- I'm particularly enamored with my transformation of the Spectre into the Tal-Vashoth. Also btw M9:38 is free/PWYW, so no barrier to curiosity there :3

My thoughts on Bioware's recent games are complex, but their sudden and frankly disrespectful end is honestly offensive. While they haven't always been at the heart of my gaming history, they've produced a few of my greatest moments. Those memories have made them ever-reliable to me as a designer.

I'm also now a Dragon Age person. I'd played DA:I twice and DA:V once by the time I did DA2 and it astounded me. So... I wrote a hack of Urban Shadows 2e to do DA2-style play, called Montaimmard 9:38. buff.ly/5qjZxoG

My thoughts on Bioware's recent games are complex, but their sudden and frankly disrespectful end is honestly offensive. While they haven't always been at the heart of my gaming history, they've produced a few of my greatest moments. Those memories have made them ever-reliable to me as a designer.

Story-time: I have Level 1-20'd a single OGL game, and it wasn't D&D3. It was the original d20 Star Wars. My high school friends with SWEU nuts, and one of my typical players stepped into the GM chair. (ftr he hated the Disney canon massacre)

My thoughts on Bioware's recent games are complex, but their sudden and frankly disrespectful end is honestly offensive. While they haven't always been at the heart of my gaming history, they've produced a few of my greatest moments. Those memories have made them ever-reliable to me as a designer.

Specifically, I've made two games anchored on Bioware projects, and have one further experience rooted in their work. For one, I have The Shining Void, a PbtA experiment based deeply on Mass Effect. ME2 is a top 3 game for me, often flirting with #1. buff.ly/BG73vrs

The Oleander Daemon is released! My squad-based FitD campaign of military sci-fi action about a guerilla force fighting back against an occupying invader is available in both PDF and softcover POD. tLBP: buff.ly/797VvFw DTRPG: buff.ly/67gBMOl Itch: buff.ly/GCKR8XF Lulu: buff.ly/5duEpis

The PDF is $15. On DTRPG, the softcover is $30, while a premium version is available on Lulu for $35. Lulu won't let me bundle a ZIP or PDF, so email me if you get it there and you can have the files. Similarly, if you buy it on one site and want it in other libraries, I can help with that.

The Oleander Daemon is released! My squad-based FitD campaign of military sci-fi action about a guerilla force fighting back against an occupying invader is available in both PDF and softcover POD. tLBP: buff.ly/797VvFw DTRPG: buff.ly/67gBMOl Itch: buff.ly/GCKR8XF Lulu: buff.ly/5duEpis

Alrighty, got my DTRPG proof of The Oleander Daemon, which was my last limiting factor on the release of the game (POD was a mandatory element). It's sufficient! The game will release within on the next couple weeks!

Y'know, I've felt doubt every now and then that my upcoming Oleander Daemon release is actually going to resonate right with anyone Then I listen to Halo soundtracks for ten minutes and, uh, I nailed it. The vibes are immaculate.

(.hack//SIGN is Starglow, Phendrana Drifts is Under Forgotten Stars, Agni Kai is and always has been LotE, Chrono Cross is an underpinning element of Sacred Sandglass, and Copper Ganglia is a cross between Amos Roddy and Elemental, a 2013 indie with an inordinate hold on my ears for a many years)

Y'know, I've felt doubt every now and then that my upcoming Oleander Daemon release is actually going to resonate right with anyone Then I listen to Halo soundtracks for ten minutes and, uh, I nailed it. The vibes are immaculate.

Idk if I'm ever going to be able to play or listen to Halo again without being overcome with Oleander thoughts, and imho that's the perfect feeling after finishing a project, the feeling that it has permanently entrenched itself into your brain and your connection to its inspirations.

Oleander Daemon side note: my partner and I just finished a full Battlestar Galactica rewatch (I actually saw the ending this time, but that's a different thread) and I have to mention that core Oleander Soldier Celadon is based on a different Tricia Helfer character.

Okay, that's me committed THE OLEANDER DAEMON releases in October, PDF and POD. I don't have a final date (I need to receive my POD proofs to hit the button, so it's not 100% in my hands) but I'm targeting the 11th or 12th (the latter is my birthday)

So now, I'm just gonna start releasing things. Not willy-nilly, I'm doing it with intention, but I'm not holding myself to a standard of driving a huge-feeling campaign.

Okay, that's me committed THE OLEANDER DAEMON releases in October, PDF and POD. I don't have a final date (I need to receive my POD proofs to hit the button, so it's not 100% in my hands) but I'm targeting the 11th or 12th (the latter is my birthday)

I've been ruminating on this for a while now, and I just don't have the right disposition to make this a Kickstarter, or to pursue crowdfunding in general for a while. Building hype and doing the marketing requisite to the process is literally stopping me from working on things.

So in The Unity of Skovlan, there's a late-Period Mission where you assassinate an Akarosi general I adapted that one to Oleander Daemon, a scifi Halo-like game But I'm realizing in the adaptation, I basically wrote a mission where you assassinate Darth Vader