Dresden Files RPG: First Combat 4

Thanks to a certain confluence of events, last night’s session of Samhaine‘s Dresden Files game had only my wizard and Kainenchen’s character Trudy the Vampire Slayer Serial Killer were the only ones playing. Because there were only two of us, we decided to play through a “what-if” of the previous session, rather […]


Dresden Files RPG: Eyewitness Testimony 9

As Samhaine has mentioned, he has started up a Dresden Files game, in no small part so that he can comment on it in the greater scope of his review of FATE. I’ll be posting my own commentary here in Harbinger, and it may cover anything from FATE rules (which […]


The Kagandi 3

I have tallied the results (both of them!) and have settled on a mixture of versions 2 and 3 of the kagandi described in this post. Of course, both responses wanted me to have written something about the race relations of the setting before they chose a preference. I am […]


Development in progress: The Kagandi 2

Kainenchen pointed out that the veytikka and the beruch are both written as minorities in a human society, which is another part of what brought up the whole topic of unfamiliar races and how races are used in games that we’ve been talking about off and on for the past couple […]


Quick note: Continuing Conversation

Since my last post, Kainenchen and the Wombat Warlord (which could be the title of a kind of awesome YA novel, I think) have each written extensive posts on topics related to mine. As they’ll be relevant to any further posts I make on this topic, I wanted to post […]


Player Investment and the Unfamiliar 12

For the past several weeks, I’ve been involved in relatively frequent conversations on a related set of topics with Kainenchen, Samhaine, the Wombat Warlord, and this guy. This got started as a result of talking about the theoretical setting in which the veytikka and the beruch dwell. From the start, […]


The Dust to Dust Website and Rulebook

I am pleased to announce the launch of the Dust to Dust website and rulebook.Please excuse a few remaining issues in the editing of the rulebook and a few remaining areas of the website.Committee members will do all that we can to answer your questions. We are accepting early drafts […]


Spirit of the Century: Thoughts from a few sessions 4

Particularly because Samhaine is writing his system review of Spirit of the Century right now, I’m going to pull together as many thoughts as I can about my experience playing in the sessions he ran. My character was Max Gable, lesser-known twin brother of This Guy. Max was particularly skilled in […]


Another new race: the Beruch 3

As promised in the last post, here are the beruch. Since their initial mention, I’ve decided that their growths are actually silicate, so they actually are quartz growths. But anyway, on to the idea.The BeruchThe partially crystalline beruch have arrived from an island reportedly far to the south. Their red […]


Late-night ideas: the Veytikka 18

I am giving myself permission to look away from the Dust to Dust rulebook writing long enough to post this. I’ve been thinking of creating some completely new races for whatever my next D&D campaign might be. I came up with one a few days ago, and another two last […]