hex nation – Moe Lane

The February Patreon stuff is up!

I genuinely thought that the Not-Covid Plague ripping through the house this week would make me have to take an extra day, but no. Thank goodness; that way lies trouble.

As always: back!

Short Story: He Came From Outside. Novellas, man. Freaking science fiction horror novellas. I keep having to take away people’s cell phones! What crack was I smoking?
RPG Setting: Hex Nation, Part 5b: Troubles, Domestic. This finishes it up, methinks. I have a good idea for the next one.

The January Patreon stuff is up!

It is a measure of this week that I wrote that out originally as ‘December.’

Fiction: The Girl and the Garrison Job. New Fermi Resolution story, for everybody who liked “The Last Raygun in the World.” I also need to stop giving away the plot in the title.
RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part 5a: Troubles, Foreign. Originally ‘Foreign and Domestic,’ but I realized that I had enough material for two parts.

The December Patreon stuff is up!

Huzzah!

Fiction: TIMMY AND THE FAT MAN. Timmy! Another heartwarming Christmas tale about my favorite wicked child! I shouldn’t enjoy writing these, but I do.
RPG Material: HEX NATION, PART 4: INDIAN COUNTRY. It would appear that the things historians want to record about Native American tribes are not the same things that I want them to record about Native American tribes. I’m not sure whose fault that is.

The November Patreon stuff is up!

Getting that short story out was like pulling teeth. I mean, it’s been in my damn hard drive for years. I just needed enough spite and aggravation to finally finish it.

Short Story: Walk Away. Because “Thus Do I Refute Omelas” as a title was possibly just a little too on the nose. I knew going in that you’re not supposed to write polemics, only I decided that I just didn’t give a damn.
RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part 3b: Shattered Mexico. I actually didn’t consider the balance there until I sat down to write it, but I think it works fairly well.

Onward to December!

The October Patreon stuff is up!

Huzzah. NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, so expect a bunch of updates on Patreon next month.

Short Story: Wendigo Country Rules. I didn’t particularly like this dude. But he wasn’t there to be nice.
RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part 3a: The American West. This one… maybe requires a bit more research than I was expecting.

The September Patreon stuff is up!

In the veritable nick of time, but that’s okay.

Short story: The Golem Job. More like a series of connected vignettes (eventually for the RPG), but I think it still works.
RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part Two (B): Wizards and Society. Establishing the complicated relationship of wizards to everybody else.

The August Patreon stuff is up!

A little early, because… I don’t know why because. Unless it’s so that I’m not distracted from GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND edits.

Short story: ANALOG, Chapter 1. This is going to be the next NaNoWriMo project, and takes as its theme “What would the Cthulhu Mythos be like if it was written by Doc E.E. Smith?”
RPG material: Hex Nation, Part Two (A): Book Magic. You can’t do a fantasy alt-history Western RPG unless you establish what the magic can and can’t do. Also: you might very well think that this is written with GURPS 4e in mind – but I couldn’t possibly comment.

The July Patreon stuff is up!

And my, but wasn’t it a rough trip.

Fiction: Alkali Jones and the Lost Devil-City. Novella! I have to stop writing those! Fermi Resolution!
RPG: Hex Nation, Part One: How We Got Here. All that magic, to change nothing. Well. Lincoln’s alive, although nobody in that universe finds that unusual.

The June Patreon stuff is up!

Lord, wasn’t that fun.

Novella: ALKALI JONES AND THE LOST DEVIL-CITY. Part 1. I fought hard, but: it’s a novella, not a short story, and I’ll finish it next month.
RPG Material: Hex Nation. Alternate-history Old Western fantasy! Can’t imagine how that could go wrong!