Wayfarings of Sabit: Schedule Change

Having just wrapped up my seventh month of every weekday flash fiction, I am changing the format of Wayfarings of Sabit. I will be posting Sabit chapters twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. The first chapter of the new story will post on Monday, June 5. I will still shape chapters into discrete stories, … Read more

Isle of the Wicked: Twenty-Two

The sun hung low in the western sky by the time Sabit, Wensa, and Allamu reached the rim of healthy trees circling the Wicked Rocks. Below, the twisted maze of boulders slowly disappeared beneath the rising waters. Only the massive spires of featureless black stone remained above the waves, stretching toward the sky. “Those rocks … Read more

Blossom of Ruin: Ten

Sabit thrashed against her bonds with every jot of vigor she could summon. She bowled over the thralls to either side of her. But her legs had been hobbled with thick rope. Sabit didn’t make a dozen steps before she was dragged back. The sativa-keeper laughed with triumph. “Indeed, you will be a fine addition … Read more

With Great Power: Master Edition—PDF only available for sale

Incarnadine Press is proud to announce that _With Great Power: Master Edition_ is now available for sale as PDF only. Print sales will follow in the next few weeks.* Additionally, all purchasers will receive epub format at no additional cost by May 1, 2016. To buy the PDF: https://payhip.com/b/AkUy Details and updates are available at … Read more

With Great Power: Master Edition is complete

Incarnadine Press is proud to announce that With Great Power: Master Edition will be available for sale at the Dreamation game convention February 18-21, 2016 in Morristown, New Jersey. The game will be available in print and PDF by March 1, 2016. Additionally, all purchasers will receive epub format at no additional cost by May … Read more

Metatopia 2013

What a good, good convention Metatopia 2013 was. Despite the continual growth in size, the culture of critique and improvement has remained strong. While it’s never easy to talk about what parts of games aren’t working, almost everyone had a great attitude about both giving and receiving suggestions. Thanks to Vinny, Avie, and the tireless … Read more

Points of Articulation

Since I’m working on the new dice system for With Great Power, this kind of stuff is on my mind. Just looking at dice systems, most of them have certain “points of articulation” like an action figure. Places where inputs from the fiction or from player decisions can affect the probability of the roll. One … Read more

Ya gotta have consequences

Just watched Shadow of the Vampire, a movie about an obsessive visionary director making the classic silent film Nosferatu. The twist is that the director has hired an actual vampire to pretend to be an actor playing the vampire. The movie was okay, but not great. A great deal of dramatic tension in the first … Read more

Manifesto in the land of Caesar

Mauro Ghibo just translated my essay “A Manifesto on Mastery” into Italian, available here. I think that’s the third or fourth language for the Manifesto. Pretty cool!