Useless spells

I guess they are not entirely useless - One Shall Never Underestimate the Creativity of the Players!

1. Rain of Piss
2. Spectral Cutlery
3. Self-blindness
4. Mud bolt
5. Rain of Feathers
6. Summon the Grasshopper
7. Glowing Pinhead
8. Feces Breathing
9. Summon the Copper Coin
10. Invisible Shoes

Happy Birthday, Master

CAVERN DAY! Special Edition #1 - Ants!

I'm too sick to post anything creative today, so I decided to post something under the Cavern Day label - the absolutely amazing - and very inspiring - documentary about the Leaf Cutter Ants. I never used the giant ant dungeon in my games but one day I will do it. And this video may be very, very useful. Enjoy!

Darkest Hour

Yay, 2014! Welcome in the New Year! :)

As you probably remember, yesterday I wrote that I want to start a series of posts about my Dying Earth pastiche (or rather loose interpretation / game revolving about the same idea of dying reality). Here is a list of all topics about the setting I want to post in this blog during the 2014. Of course - as nothing is certain about my writing - contents of this list may change over time.

Links will be added when the post about the particular topic will be published.

General information / random stuff

Appendix N

Very general information

Visual inspiration

Places and geography

Bell Tower

The Black Cube

Bone Coast

The Cauldron

Corat Archipelago

The Drowned Land

Death Pits 

Forges of Angelorn

The Frozen Wastes

Garden of Deceptive Pleasures 

Gardens of Yinaril

The Holy Fire

Night 

The Obsidian Heart

Oldor Archipelago

Palace of Ascension

Ranath-Cardei, the Holy Ruins

Rangra

Rnal

The Scarlet Palace

Spire of the Storms

Thagra, City of Thousand Channels

Umber Wastes

Xaar

Races and creatures

The Blind Beast of Daleit

Blue Tar

Cnyrak

Deceptive Blossoms

Elder Races

Hybrids

Imperfection

Inhuman Ones 

The Necromancer of Naal

Artifacts and magic items

Crystal of Canyss

Eyes of Daleit

Glass Knives 

Midnight Blade

Mirror Crystals

Scroll of False Wisdom

Gods, magic and mysticism

The Black Portal

The Fossilized God

The God of Light 

Gods of the Abyss

Hatil

Jadia

The Seven Warlocks

Shadow Gods

Shroud of Death

Shroud of Shadows

History

Age of Darkness

The Cataclysm

The First Empire

Madness in the Holy Ruins

Persons and heroes

Jhatis Ranath, the Black Empress

Ranor Delem

Setemo Delem

Tenath, the First Hybrid

It's almost over (2) - plans for 2014

Yesterday I wrote about things I managed to do in 2013, today I want to write something about my RPG-related plans for the upcoming year.

• Obviously, Volume Three is one of my main goals for 2014. Everything I want to include in it is already written but I must sit and create the booklet. I don't know if I should release it for free or maybe try to sell it, as I did with the Volume Two. But sales of the Volume Two were terrible..
• Underworld Kingdom Volumes 1-3 - book containing the first three volumes of the Underworld Kingdom campaign. Reason - much better price for the printed version on Lulu.
• My Dying Earth pastiche - I'm still working on it and I don't think I will be able to complete / release it in 2014. But I plan the long series of posts about it, containing information about the world, creatures, magic and artifacts.
• Bandits and Battlecruisers Supplement - Alien Artifacts. Mr. Wight (dude who wrote 2 or 3 posts here in 2011) is helping me with it and I hope it will be released in January.
• Space Alphabet - well, I can't promise anything but I'll try. Hard.
• Make more of my stuff available via RPGNow. I'm trying to force myself to do it for 3-4 months now. And due to their insane PDF optimization requirements it's not an easy task (well, it's easy but requires one of the most recent versions of Acrobat, which I don't own). But I promise I'll do it in the first quarter of 2014 :)
• Post more creative content!

Of course I have more still unfinished projects but I'm not sure about them. But I will try to do my best :)

And I wish you a Happy New Year!

It's almost over...

Let's face the facts - 2013 is almost dead. And it wasn't very creative year, at least RPG-wise.

• During the most of the 2013, I managed to run or play RPG sessions at least once per week. And it's good amount of gaming for me, although still I want more :)
• I managed to release the Bandits and Battlecruisers, my first "big" release. AFAIK it's not very popular. Up to this day, 56 PDFs were sold via RPGNow, 23 PDFs were sold via Lulu and 22 prints were sold via Lulu. In addition, booklet was downloaded 202 times during the 2013 Free RPG Day. Pretty satisfying result, at least for me :)
• FINALLY I managed to release the first two volumes of my Underworld Kingdom campaign. Volume One was released for free and was downloaded 115 times via Lulu, previeved on Box.com 240 times and downloaded via Box.com 199 times. Even 4 physical copies were sold!
• Volume Two is my least successful release (I'm afraid it simply sucks lol) - I managed to sell 11 PDFs and 2 prints.
• Due to other activities, I failed to finish any other project, including the Nameless City series of blog posts and 100 random space encounters. I hope I'll be able to release more things in 2014.

I think I forgot about something important so be prepared for the part two tomorrow :)

Interface of the Alien Devices (Bandits and Battlecruisers first supplement preview)

As I mentioned yesterday, I started writing the first (free) Bandits and Battlecruisers supplement, called the Alien Devices. It will contain twenty (or more) new ship components, all of them created by some mysterious (and unspecified) alien races.

This random table may be handy during determination of the device's interface - obviously, most of alien creations have strange and non-intuitive (at least for humans) methods of operating them:

BandB PDF PRICE DROP and other minor news

Well, I must admit that I fucked it up. Almost no new releases this year, little new random tables (or any creative content) posted on this blog, no Perilous Path updates, no Space Alphabet, literally nothing new in the second part of the year, except the Volume Two.

Before I start to explain myself, I want to announce the permanent price drop of the Bandits and Battlecruisers PDFs, both on Lulu and RPGNow. Buy it, I need a bass guitar ;)

Sooo, about the reasons for my inactivity - besides the EVE Online, which is the main reason, I was creating lots of different music (among the others - Polymatrix, my synthwave project), both as a job and hobby. Also I was playing the Path of Exile but ridiculous difficulty curve refrained me from wasting even more time with this game :D

Nevertheless, it wasn't completely fruitless period - I think I'll be able to release the Volume Three in about 1-2 months. Also, I think about releasing some small (and free) supplement for the BandB - unfortunately, not the one with spaceships I promised long time ago :(

About my gaming activity - we're still playing the (modified) 1e WFRP, still The Enemy Within campaign :) Players are stuck in Middenheim, in a middle of the carnival, so I think we should be able to finish the campaign within the next six-seven months :D

Unfortunately - there are also some bad news - I ran out of the spaceship pics (but I will try to find something new), so probably there will be no more Spaceship Sundays :(

Spaceship Sunday - Pirate Nations

Last post with EVE Online spaceships. Some pirate nations have ships based on designs of other factions, but some have their own, unique designs, one of the best in the game. Enjoy!

Spaceship Sunday - Outer Ring Excavations

ORE ships from EVE Online. Only one Spaceship Sunday to end EVE-related sunday posts.

Spaceship Sunday - Caldari (IV)

We're coming to the end of EVE-related posts. Maybe two more weeks and we're done.

Spaceship Sunday - Caldari (III)