Reflections on the Race to the Bottom — I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the manic, feverish excitement I’ve read about amongst Russian journalists and artists in the early days of the fall of the USSR feels very familiar, or at any rate congruent with how I now view the times I lived through, particularly in…

Author’s Endnote for Tales From When I Had A Face — I just typed up final words for this book that’s been shadowing my steps for almost eight years now. …

Fictional Visions of 2054 Geopolitics — I wanted to share some of the world development that we did in 2020 for the BLACKOUT 2054 RPG campaign, which was the first we ran in the Fallen Cycle setting. For this first foray, I wanted to jump far enough ahead of the two existing novels and play in…

A comment of mine to a friend and fellow artist, commiserating about what it's like right now. Thought it may have some broader salience. For any artist who isn’t in the top %, The Algorithm is not our friend. (Maybe even then, but that’s a slightly different story a think.) …

I haven’t done much longform writing lately, between getting Tales From When I Had A Face out the door and really just overall shifting gears mentally. (And the pandemic). So Modern Mythology has also suffered from that, both in terms of pieces I’m writing and pieces that I’m editing for…

Vampyr gives you the experience of being a vampire. Which is not necessarily so pleasant as you might assume. — This isn't a full review, though I may get around to one later. Especially since I’ve been putting a lot more thought to game design the past couple years, specifically RPGs, and I really like some of the choices they made to re-enforce a specific experience. (Which is to one…

I am just woolgathering here on RPGs or rather, D&D in particular, but hopefully it is of interest to some of you. This train of thought is really a continuation of an earlier off-the-cuff post on my portfolio site a couple months back, that was ostensibly about “what 5E is…