Tag Archives: Review

New Photography Blog

My favorite photographer just moved to a new blog, and I thought I would give her a shout out, and a link. To some great colorful photography and Venice pictures. I’ve been working on a bunch of stuff, including the second edition of realms – but that won’t see the light of day for some [...]

Great review for the RPG (Heroes in Time)

I just got a great review for the Heroes in Time role-playing game on RPG Drive Thru. Here are a few choice excerpts, but you can read the whole role-playing game review here. “…[With]  extensive contents that includes the wide variety of settings for adventures – Primeval, Fantasy, Swashbuckling, Steampunk, Modern, Cyberpunk and Space Opera. [...]

Cool role-playing game tools that work on Ubuntu

These cool tools are all free, and all work seamlessly with Ubuntu*. I’m talking about stuff that helps in running table-top games here, not on-line RPG stuff. I was very impressed by how professional and smooth these are, and they are all free to download from the author’s RPG tool download website. I’m mostly using [...]

Zero Punctuation blipvert

One of my spaceships just turned up on Zeropunctuation. It’s used in a blink and you’ll miss it kind of way, but it is there. I had never heard of Zeropunctuation, but someone from the Vega Strike community noticed it and tipped me off in the forums. Of course I immediately dropped everything and went [...]

I’m an early adopter, I just downloaded blender 2.5 alpha

  Wow, it’s great to be an early adopter of a state-of-the-art 3D editing suite like Blender. I feel like I’m at the cutting edge, blazing a trail etc. Of course all I’m really doing is poking about with something I don’t completely understand and reporting back some first impressions. First Impression 1. It’s as [...]

LiveWriter frustrations, but Sci-fi special at New Scientist includes fiction and other goodies

I love Windows LiveWriter for writing my posts about my experiences learning and using Blender, but it’s never worked well for me. Today I wanted to take a few minutes and post a progress report about my latest work in Blender (a strange 2D, 3D animation hybrid), but LiveWriter repeatedly failed to upload the fantastic [...]

My Review of the Free PDF Blender Art Magazine

Wow a free magazine for Blender, BlenderArt Magazine. It’s taken me a surprising amount of time to find and investigate this great resource for users of the Blender 3D graphics suite – I mean it often turns up on the first page of results in any Blender based Google search for goodness sake. I’d already [...]

JJ`s Star Trek, great movie, no good for RPG inspiration though, and the Enterprise looked short and fat

  I loved the new Star Trek movie as an entertainment and as a spectacle, but not as RPG inspiration. As a long time sci-fi nerd and science fiction role-playing games aficionado I was a little hesitant about seeing a JJ Abram’s Star Trek, he often does dark and brooding rather than the whiz-bang and [...]

Sci-Fi Book Worm, looking for – and finding – inspirational SF for role-playing games like Traveller

Sci-Fi bookworm column, with cool robobookworm illustration. A Sci-Fi Ezine, wow.  My thoughts on the free science fiction inspiration I find dotted around the interweb is proving popular(ish) and I have promoted it to being a regular part of the Starbright mix of stuff for use as inspiration, illustration and resources for role-playing games. My [...]

Who watches the watchmen, making a turkey.

Oh my god, the new Watchmen movie looks bad. It looks like a fetish fancy dress ball. I am an old school nerd and I bought the original graphic novel back in the 80s … or early 90s –I’ll  look it up on Wikipedia – but the point is the book was already bad back [...]