Here are the next two sections of the magic system I’m working on for the Demons of Light RPG (see this post for the intro). No mechanics yet, just pure world building fluff and nonsense that will inform the rules. I’ve written it for a modern setting, but will probably change it later. The Bornless […]
Some cosmological world-building for my theoretical “sometime-in-the-future” Nobilis campaign. I will convert things into OSR terms as I go to see how bat-shit crazy this can get. I like the idea of taking a game where the players run demi-gods and trying to apply the same concepts to a strictly mortals-only, 20th-level-is-the-end-of-the-line type game like […]
I often want the monster to win in the end. I am often disappointed. Universal monster movies especially adhere to this dynamic (the real ones, any Mummy movie that’s in color is shit). The “romantic lead” hero has zero personality and is only defined by his passionate and complete love for the white damsel in […]
The reason I wrote the original post about The conflicting tension between metaphysics and good storytelling was because I was experiencing it myself. I’d used a technical kabbalistic phrase as a placeholder until I could think of the correct word to use. The problem was that I never did and the placeholder was wrong but […]
If you’ve ever had the misfortune to read any fiction by Dion Fortune or others of her sort you already know what I’m here to talk about today. Don’t get me wrong, her Non-Fiction is terrific, in fact I’d highly recommend it. But when she tries to weave a story she can’t let her cosmological […]
I’m now less pissed off with WordPress, though I am considering alternatives that don’t steal control from the user and make very simple things way too hard for no reason. While I work on expanding “So Below” so that it will be the most epic story ever, here is another story. It falls into the […]
