Champions Online

Thanks to my friend Jeremy over at MMOVoices (http://mmovoices.ning.com/) I got the opportunity to gain access to a 14 day trial of Champions Online.
I have been playing for several days now and have created three unique super heroes (heroines?). The first guy I created was a robot with mental energies and a [...]

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End of An Era, For Now

For those that stop by here infrequently, and perhaps for those few who stop here often, you may have noticed scarce activity on my thoughts and progress on my many hobbies at the Emerald Tablet.
Alas, I have been stuck in the world of Everquest II all summer and have toiled and wasted hours journeying in [...]

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What Monster am I?

I am a Neogi … “Neogi see the world in terms of ownership. The strong rule and possess the weak. Slavery and trade form the foundations of neogi culture, making neogi reliable merchants to devils, giants, drow, and other dark forces.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/monster/index.asp
Take the quiz and find out yourself. I would love to know what monster [...]

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Back To the Grind

I need to concentrate on getting the first book done on Phantasm Adventures IV and also find a publisher for my novel, Aaron Johnson and the Pegasus Chamber. After that I have a slew of short stories that I need to write, edit, and once again try and find someone to publish them.

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Summary of Phantasm Voyage

By accident, he obtains a secret code to the Pegasus Chamber, a virtual simulation so real that participants cannot tell reality from fantasy. What was meant to be a party in a virtual beach in paradise suddenly becomes a tooth-and-nail fight for survival. The kids find themselves in more danger than any back alley of New Detroit. Forging together, the kids head off on the wildest adventure they could ever imagine.

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Developer’s Diary: Endless Editing

I sit in front of my computer looking at the first book of Phantasm Adventures, and marvel that most of the book is completely done.  What is left to do is editing and formatting the basic text.  For me this is the endless battle that I engage in.  I pour over each page looking for [...]

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Phantasm Adventures Is Slowly Taking Shape

Just a quick note to all that visit here: I am still plugging away at Phantasm Advetures, but it has been slowing down in the last couple of weeks.  I seem to go into bouts of feverish work then wander off to explore other avenues of creative thought.
Then there is times like now where I [...]

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Developer’s Diary: Game Principles

When I started looking at my fourth edition of my classic role-playing game, I wanted to make some interesting decisions when it came to the game principles.  During the various iterations of the game, I have always struggled with the concept of making the game more or less a derivative of Dungeons & Dragons.  It [...]

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Phantasm Adventures Returns!

Over the weekend I made the decision to release my greatest role-playing game I have ever designed. It is the quintessential game of high fantasy with more than fifty-five player races, thirty factions, two hundred skills, a magical spell system unmatched in any game ever published. It also comes with the world of Monokon: a [...]

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Looking for Artists

After years of being out of the business, I have decided to pull from the archives all of my old role-playing games, adventures, and accessories and print them via pdf and lulu (www.lulu.com). Although I consider myself adept at writing instruction manuals, I have one flaw that has kept me from becoming the next printing [...]

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