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One Trillion Years - A Preview

Hey folks,

So I decided to join another game jam at itch.io, This time its the Mapemounde game jam, all focused on using maps as part of the game's design. The theme of this year's jam is  "A game in which the map portions belong to different ages.”

I've always had a fascination with the far future of the universe. How our planet will change, how our sun will expand and die, y'know cheery stuff. So I...

Spooky Action at a Distance - Prototype

Hey folks,

There's a tabletop game jam happening over at itch.io called the Me, Myself, and My RPG Game Jam.

I've been inspired to make single player roleplaying games after playing plot ARMOR by 2019-04-02 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Tales from Neon Black - Improvised Interference

Today's story was inspired by a Writer's Emergency Pack card called "What would Indy do?" It's a reference to Indiana Jones and suggests how to think of your hero improvising in a situation. Chasing a tank on horseback, bringing a gun to a sword fight, stuff like that. 

So I thought to myself, what would the equivalent be in a cyberpunk setting? A hacker chasing an autonomous tank through the street. Obviously...

Tales from Neon Black - Pinnacle Liberty

Today we have the copy from some sort of advertisement from one of the factions of Neon Black, Pinnacle Liberty. They run the off-world colonies in the solar systems, which are basically just getaways for the ultra rich. My prompt today from the Writer Emergency Pack was "travel". I imagined this has a brochure or some ad that plays when you're using the free version of software on the 'Net. 

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Planning a getaway? 

Looking for a new experience? 

Need t...

Tales from Neon Black - No Heroes in Prime City

Another bit of microfiction inspired by my cyberpunk game and the Writer Emergency Pack. Today's card was "Kill the Hero". 

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There’s a classic tale on the ‘Net, told and retold to new freelancers who talk big about the corporations and the way life outta be.

Once there was this fixer, names lost to the heap but most folks call ‘em by their handle: Juice. Juice was a mean talent with legend...

Tales from Neon Black - No Words

Today I wrote a short story, inspired by working on my cyberpunk game and the Writer Emergency Pack.  The pack is a set of cards designed to help inspire creative writing or get you out of a slump. Each has a prompt or idea like "cause and effect" or "you can't go home again". I drew a random card yesterday in the middle of rewriting the rules for Neon Black. It was "stop talking" and this little short story/anecdote was the result.

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“You kids know that the Ziggurat corp...

Neon Black - Skipping 3.0

Hey Patrons,

How's thing? Work okay? Life okay? Getting by as we crawl out of these long dark months? Well, that last question only applies to those of you living in the northern hemisphere...

Anyway.

I have a bit of an update for you on Neon Black, the cyberpunk tabletop RPG I'm working on. For the last few months I've been playtesting and redesigning the game. I thought I was going in a certain direction with it, trimming some mechanics and simplifying things. But recently...

Published in CapsuleCrit

Hey Patrons,

Today I had a short piece published. It's a micro fan fiction story that I worked on my Twitch stream several weeks ago. I didn't share it here, in case of this exact eventuality, but now I can by linking you to the CapsuleCrit page.

Not a paying gig, but I get to share the space with other writers I admire, and honestly after having a steady stream of rejections and just plain silence I'll take my wins where I can get 'em. Something new to put in the ol' resume at le...

Latest Version of Neon Black now Available

Neon Black v 2.3 is now available for everyone and not just patrons!

You can find the updated rulebook, character and crew playbooks, and play sheets right here. 

Play as a clever and scrappy crew of characters who are down on their luck and desperate to survive in a near-future world full of monolithic corporations, strange alien artificial intelligences, and underworld gangs....

Neon Black Version 2.3

Hey folks,

Ever take a second look at something you made and realize that you absolutely hate it? Yeah, that's what I did when I was looking over the last build of Neon Black, version 2.2. I didn't like the changes I had made to the crew and character playbooks, so I rolled back some of the changes I made and implemented some others. The latest version is now 2.3 and includes the changes I've been working on this last week.

This is how I've been spending most of my writing time. I'v set ...

Neon Black Version 2.2

Hey folks,

The latest version of my cyberpunk RPG Neon Black is finished and live for patrons. 

Play as a crew of highly skilled but poor hackers, suits, and sleuths trying to survive in a near future cyberpunk world of powerful corporations and alien artificial intelligences. This is a hack of another RPG called Blades in the Dark.

Follow the above link for a copy of the rules, reference sheets, and character sheets. it has everything you need to start playing your own game. ...