Saturday, May 9, 2026

The T&T-ish Campaign: Player-Character Origins Outlined Starting Point

 My Summer through Fall Swords and Sorcery campaign is going to be awesome. So of course, my rules system is going to be first fast, then descriptive-- that means that I am going to be using my T&T-derived (REV Bat) rules instead of D&D plod along using whatever edition.

Here's the "races" available to PCs:

Balds:
As old as the sky, but prone to habits.
   Gnomes- Garden keepers gone wild. You also know a thing or three.
   Kobalds- Live in that cave already, the sun is not your friend. You're tough even when burning into a reptile. 
   Pecks- Goblin out with your looks, you can cook-- err um, "cook" means "skills."

Elves
    As a species they are older than the sky. As Player-Characters you aren't so shabby either.

Humans
    Whatever. You know you're going to be the greatest at whatever already.

Leprechauns
    On other worlds you're a king. Step off if you want, at least one hundred paces away at that.

Og
    You're not a Neanderthal, you are the off-spring of Ogres. 

Piltdowners
    You're the grandchildren of Ogres. That is whether or not you want to be. 
    

Friday, February 20, 2026

State of the Hobby For Me


 Say what you will about that picture, but you can be pretty sure that it's not AI-generated. It took me less time to draw this as it would take an AI user to prompt something in this style-- the folded paper and blue lines would be problematic to say the least. Given there are tools where I can produce about a dozen pages of text per day and a passable images for about 30$ a month, this crappy drawing is me showing my Players that I haven't gone "meta" with crafting the scenarios that we will share. Since we do something about every three weeks I could have a whole paperback novel ready to go every time there's a session. Frankly two to three paragraphs, a couple Stat blocks, and maybe a hand-drawn piece is enough for the standard sit-down these days with the regular games. Weirdly enough, I feel my creative energies are being better maintained than otherwise. 

In the background, I am still adding paragraphs at a time to various projects. Spacers: 180° (that means using multiple dice not just 2D6), scribbles to do with Atlantis, and then something about goblins and fairies. As March approaches, I have to get in gear for my GenCon scenarios. May even get serious about revising Crawlspace for a more complete feel and try them on folks at the convention. BUT first, I have to organize the dinner for pre-Con Wednesday night. 

As you see, my priorities just aren't industrial enough for the hobby these days.