I am often by myself. As a writer, this is probably just the way I like things. That is until I ran smack into the one time that I felt alone. I usually enjoy a space devoid of other people; that’s how work gets done. That is not to say I …
Yesterday I spent a lot of time on the p-curve for the S3 system. Today, I think I have solved it. Here be a lot of RPG dice maths and some pretty graphs. Warning: If you thought that the last one had a lot of maths, you ain’t seen nothing yet. …
I’ve been looking at the dice rolling for the S3 skills system and it turns out the p-curve might be broken. This is my attempt to fix the p-curve. Warning: maths and numbers ahead. I was thinking about writing a simplified version of the Mad Science setting for S3 as …
I cannot think of a year when there were more films approaching that I could say I was truly excited for. But 2018 seems to be bursting at the edges with possibly great sci-fi. Here are five films that I hope will be incredible. The Beyond A groundbreaking mission sends …
Star Trek has been and always will be a source of inspiration for me. While the Time Travel episodes always got my attention, it was the alternate universe episodes that got me really excited. Things like this: If I am ever famous… One day, I truly hope that there will be …
They say that posting something controversial is good for readership figures. I don’t know how true that is but here, for your reading pleasure, is my controversial opinion. Controversial: I loved all the Star Wars films Yes, I loved the original trilogy, but I also loved the prequels and the …
So the new year (2018) has finally arrived. What now? That’s a question I have been asking myself for a few days now. I’ve largely avoided making new year resolutions because those always seem to fail by about the second day. New year resolutions fail for two specific reasons. They are …
Have you ever wanted to ask writers questions about writing? If so, you are in luck. Author Buzz UK has an entire forum for asking questions and getting answers. Yours truly hangs out there and tries to come up with the best possible answers to questions. I don’t pretend to know everything …
One of the limits I set myself for the Mad Science setting was encounters without combat. It’s right there in the introduction: There is no combat – solve your problems like a grown up. Encounters without combat: harder than it sounds S3 (which needs a better name) and the Mad Science …
Since the end of NaNoWriMo, I have been thinking about my story setting as a setting for an RPG using the S3 system. S3 (sometimes written 3S because I’m inconsistent) is the Story Skills System. It was designed as a no grind, no levels, story-driven RPG system. I wrote about it …
