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Knights of the Hidden Sun: Inspired by Star Wars Done Right

It started with a Star Wars game. I loved the old West End version of the RPG but had always run and never played. I was ecstatic when I found a handmade poster in my LGS requesting players for a local game. I was so elated a friend ordered me to “stop beaming.”  The next [...]

Knights of the Hidden Sun: Chapter One Developed

You are floating among blue clouds. The Archon Bureau of Records sigil appears.
Bureau Announcer: This is a thought construct from your Bureau of Records. To receive a balanced, accurate dream of the following report please clear your mind. Thought transmission will commence in 10 seconds.
Bureau Anchor Valdyn Trad emerges from the clouds. His silver robes, [...]

Suicide is Painless

I normally don’t talk about my house game here, but on my personal journal. Indigo uses a heavily hacked version of Adventure! set on a Dyson Sphere.  The protagonists are posthuman members of the Fleet Syndicate: the exploration branch of an anarcho-syndicalist culture heavily influenced by mid-21st Century South Asia (as explored in its prequel, [...]

What I Did At Gencon – and What I’m Doing at Fan Expo!

Actually, I didn’t go to Gencon! I did on the other hand have some presence there through my work.
Geist: The Sin-Eaters
I wrote the (unfortunately, somewhat version-dated, compared to post-playtest revisions) krewe rules and I hashed out their role in the setting. Previews made some people assume the krewes were all gang-like, but the other half [...]

Knights of the Hidden Sun Development: Introduction Done

Donnel tripped halfway back to the wagon. It was a lance, half shattered, cast aside like a broken toy. When he glanced back up, he saw corpses strewn about as if they’d been dashed against the earth by an angry giant.
The captain and his men were dead. In less than a minute the strangers had [...]

Interesting

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=285006
Things to note:
1) In terms of development, this takes RPGs into where SF was in the 1970s. This is an absolutely accurate description, because the thread feels like, “What if the World of Darkness was a Joanna Russ story from 1976 or so?” That’s not a diss on the woman who started this thread. In [...]