Weird & Wonderful Worlds

As part of WORDS!: The July 2024 Blog Carnival hosted by Beneath Foreign Planets , I thought I'd revisit one of my favorite game mechani...

This was drafted as far back as February, but I recently watched the original Wicker Man and it was really good and reminded me of this post...

Have I defined Weird and Wonderful before? I talk a lot about Weird, but why Wonderful? Weird is what is juxtaposed against the known and no...

I recently did a light purge of my blogroll. There are enough blogs on there still that you may not have even noticed. I do them occasionall...

The cube is a lie. The square is a lie. Even the line, is a lie. Imagine two lines: ━  ━  ━ ━  ━  ━ Or this way: │ │ │ │ │ │ What is their r...

Another old unfinished draft from 2019. Tbh these are a little half-baked and I wanted to have more of them, but it's a kernel of someth...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4jtIDaeaWI It has been a while Welcome back to this weird show Beware the monsters Somewhere between the bl...

Had a writeup for a different character for a Pt.2, and referenced a superhero team called Panic Attack as a part of that character's ba...

Despite numerous posts about superpowers, I've yet to properly make a bunch of superheroes. The Recursers and Nazarites and the various ...

A world like Warhammer 40K except where the lore doesn't implicitly justify the Imperium. I realize this is a somewhat contentious topic...

This is an old draft, way before I decided to start using Concept Crafting for Mecha Gear . I think in all likelihood it's too fiddly, a...

I get really excited about timey-wimey stuff, but then inevitably get frustrated when either I overcomplicate it or fail to explain it coher...

An earlier version of this post was first shared on The Cauldron . I've fallen behind a bit and digging into my backlog, but I do have a...