This is my second interview with Patrick (and first with Amanda!), this time about his current Kickstarter The Doom of the Dark. Unlike my previous interview with Patrick...

"The Superhero Project" is a pet project I proposed several years ago and most of my blog posts with the superheroes tag were created with this project in mind. I have finally...

A small wiry man in a black bodysuit, red shorts, brown loafers, white gloves with torn fingers exposing dirty, gnarly long nails, and wearing a cheap costume mask of a rat...

Psychedelic sword and sorcery setting. A world ruled by a flying matriarchal species in the midst of a paradigm shift.The dominant species of this world are the Lamia, an...

A cyberpunk fantasy setting. After centuries of exploitation and massacre, the goblins struck back, and now it's their world.Whether human or elf or orc, everything is too...

Underappreciated Masterpiece.ThemesSuper Sentai usually have themes like Dinosaurs, Ninja, Samurai, Magic, Space, or Time. These are a little weirder but you could throw in...

I wrote this autofiction-style a few days after going through some personal stuff and having a wild experience. I regret that my conscious mind is not able to organize and...

Spacer consciousness has been bleeding into material reality far before they returned. The Space Cases are born from humans but their minds have been touched. Those often...

The Spacers are a lost tribe of indeterminately ancient humans who journeyed into the Noösphere, the realm of the unconscious mind. After being driven nearly to extinction by...

"Australia has a lot of beautiful plants and animals and most of them are, frankly, monsters. The eucalypt is no exception. Its reproductive strategy is to drop those heavy,...

The School of Simulacra is a specialized form of illusion magic that creates Turing-complete illusions, which are constructs of pure thought and will capable of independent...

An NPC I wrote for my current Maximum Recursion Depth campaign, following up from my Jewels of the IndraNet post. A Synchronizer is one who combines principles of karma and...

This was originally going to be its own team but it needed a few more members and I never finished the draft, then Semiurge's superb superheroes post reminded me of his...

tl;dr What if Tsutomu Nihei did a take on something between Iron Man and Doctor Strange? So of course I use other artist and mangaka references in this post instead of Tsutomu...

One day middle-aged middle manager Soren Skelton jumped off a bridge, landing on his chrome dome only to wake up 6 years, 6 months, and 6 weeks later alive and kicking...

This is the first original game material I've written for my current Maximum Recursion Depth Campaign, up to now I've just been using the book or other materials I've...

Recently watched the Paramount+ era Star Trek stuff (besides Strange New Worlds- waiting for that to wrap) and also The Orville. Felt mixed on Star Trek, but even the stuff I...

1. Portal Gun: Like the game. It can be a wand instead for fantasy.2. Phasing Spear: It can stab through doors and other barriers as if they weren't there.3. Healing Arrows:...

The dragons of this world are massive creatures dwarfing blue whales, amphibians that have evolved into a shape and ecological niche somewhat like sharks.Dragon tadpoles hatch...

There's Natural Selection and Sexual Selection, and on this world, there is also Existential Selection. Beyond simply sex and survival, creatures on this world have innate,...

Another "weird gender" writeupThis species comes in two genders, Factory and Worker, although for most of their history they identified as Nest and Dweller.A young Factory is...

We burned through the global industrial-scale of fossil fuels faster than anticipated, the bodies of fresh water are shriveled corpses of their former glory leaking their...

Rings of Power: The Inner CircleThe PCs are inducted into The Inner Circle, a secret society whose members are supplied with a ring of power.They scheme against The Body of...

This is a Weird Worldbuilding game. You're provided with a set of tools to develop a near future world, like five years near, except there's been an Alien Invasion and that's...

As jaded as we've become by notions like "innovation" and "progress" in this late stage of our capitalism, one should take a step back once in a while and appreciate the good...

Dynamicland and Dynamic Reality OverviewAs someone who is interested in the intersection of STEM and the arts, I'm a big fan of Nicky Case's blog, and in their most recent post...

Fire! Fire! Psycho Soldier!RerunsEpisode 1Episode 2Episode 3Episode 4It's Halloween season!...but I've got nothing seasonal on the mind. I have been watching movies...

The PCs are breaking into Heaven because they couldn't make the waitlist, or are otherwise morally compromised, and now they want revenge for the eternity of bliss they didn't...

The FlyBiotech scientist and social activist vigilante with a fly mask and a classic noir costume over superhero spandex. A small wiry man with a pet fly that sometimes talks...

Their origins may have been functional (hunting, protection, pest control), but that's mostly not why people have pets anymore. We have pets because they are adorable and...