rpgs – Moe Lane

The March Patreon stuff is up!

I had to abandon a story with ten days to go, then finish another one that I abandoned a while back, and I know that this breaks a bunch of writing rules, supposedly. And yet, there’s a short story up. So I don’t know how you score that.

Anyway:

Short Story: DOCTOR RYPMAW’S METHOD. This rather badly wanted to be cosmic horror, but I wasn’t having any of that.
RPG Material: THE RESURGANCE, PART 1. We’re starting a new RPG setting! This one is more or less in the superhero genre. Also, it’ll be designed to be deliberately unstable! Whee!

Thanks for reading!

So, a game store near me buys used games.

And there is a bunch of stuff that I bought and didn’t like; got on Kickstarter, and promptly regretted; and/or somehow inexplicably have two copies of. I have decided to give myself permission to sell these things. I’m giving permission to you to do the same.

The only limiting factor is, I have to catalog everything. That’s gonna take some time. On the other hand, it’ll give me back some valuable storage space, which isn’t nothing…

Moe Lane

PS: They can have my MERP/Rolemaster when they pry them from my cold, dead hands. Seriously, I’m going to let my kids deal with that part of the estate.

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!

I have unlocked my Science Fiction Horror RPG setting UNFILTERED on Patreon!

You can now see it there. I have also included it below. This is the universe that GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND is set, as well as several short stories. And yes, I’d love to hand UNFILTERED off to a publisher. Downright eager to, in fact.

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 April Patreon stuff is up!

This was a month where I had to pick myself up by the scruff this weekend and stop messing around. Moral of the story: Fallout 4 is for people who don’t have novels to finish. Anyway!

Fiction: The Strange Case of Webster Domaine. A Tobias/Asenath moon horror story! This was a Kickstarter reward, but very few people saw it, comparatively. Enjoy!
RPGs: Artifacts, Chapter 5: Sample Colleagues. I almost junked this RPG setting early, but I decided to try to come up with interesting temporal flotsam. And it worked! Includes a cameo.