Writings

My Writings

About Gaming

Folkspeech among Roleplayers. Also available for download as gzipped PDFs formatted for US letter and A4. PS files on the way (as soon as i figure out the stupid conflict). For printing, I strongly recommend the PDF or PS versions, as the browsers apparently don't fully support some of the stylesheet stuff in the online version. Similarly, things aren't quite as easy to read as I'd like in the HTML version, as I haven't had a chance to finish hand-tweaking the conversion.

World of Darkness

AD&D

My house rules, which fix as much as you can, and still call it AD&D.
A reworking of the AD&D Spell classification system, in an attempt to make it internally consistent.
Some thoughts on spell research and new magics.
Expanded possiblities for your familiar.
A treatise on fantastic alchemy and engineering.
A complete listing by spell for each level, giving the new school, and eventually the element:

cantrips 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
A complete listing of spells within each school (following my slightly revamped classification scheme).

Abjuration Enchantment Metamagic
Alteration Evocation Necromancy
Charm Illusion Phantasm
Conjuration Invocation Psionosorcery
Divination Metadynamics Summoning

Ars Magica

An adaptation of my AD&D campaign to the Ars Magica system. In the process, i'm coming up with conversion rules for maintaining most of the feel of AD&D while reaping the benefits of a far superior system.
Mythic Africa (this one's just barely underway, so don't expect to see much any time soon.)

Aventdernopolis

Basic info, on Aventdernopolis, an (eventually) fully-fleshed-out high-fantasy city of 30 million (excluding rats), covering about 3000 sq miles. It originally started out under AD&D rules, but the whole setting that it's a part of is migrating to Ars Magica (see above) and Aria (see below)--though hardly any of this makes any mention of game mechanics anyway.

ARIA

Descriptions of Aventdernopolis (see under AD&D, above) as an ARIA Narrative Environment (including several interwoven Societies)

FUDGE

Nikita. Inspired by the movie of the same name (the original; i've not seen Point of No Return, nor the TV series (La Femme Nikita)).

Galactic Network

Galactic Network. A setting and system I've been working on for several years. The setting info still isn't online, but i hope to remedy that in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, the system is there, in what should be a solid beta form. It implements a slew of ideas from rec.games.frp.advocacy, so i hope those folks in particular give it a look.

Everway

Space Opera Everway. the goal is to adapt the Everway system for space opera settings, universally linked much as the default is a set of linked fantasy settings that can encompass just about anything in-genre. so far, lots of ideas, not much definite. i've got a tentative new Fortune Deck, several possibilities for new attributes, and some setting notes.

After the Overrunning

Adapting African Mythology for the Southern Continent of my (formerly-)AD&D campaign. (same world as Aventdernopolis, above)

Current Gaming

synopses of games i'm interested in running
central linksite for my current games, mostly of interest to players of those games, but perhaps of some interest to others.

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