I’m a tactical RPG fiend. I originally started playing Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis in 2002 based on articles in Nintendo Power. Later I got into Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, and a few years after that, XCOM: UFO Defense. A big part of my enjoyment of these games is the puzzle […]
Category: Writing
Bird rites
One thing I like exploring in some of my art commissions and stories are how cultures might have different developments, based on various factors. With the Thordani, a race of eagle people, there’s been a bit of ink spilled over this. Particularly their religious stuff. They’re from a Greyhawk-inspired D&Dish world originally, and while I […]
Finding Aikine
My first OC that got any serious play that wasn’t a sort of furry wish-fulfillment kind was Kawheek. In 2004, on Avians.net IRC, one channel member wanted to start a D&D campaign. We got four people together, and everyone wanted to play birds. Instead of using the aarakocra, which at the time were wing-arm birds, […]
My brain has too many tabs open
Seriously. Now that I’m getting down to business, after years of NOT creating, there’s a wellspring of ideas and just not enough time to focus on them. I haven’t played any video games for my own enjoyment since early March. At the time, I stopped to be able to cram for an IT certification I […]
Creation isn’t just for deities
I think we all know I punted yesterday. Let’s do a little more of a deep dive today. And I promise I’ll get to a politics thing sometime this week. Got a few topics lined up, just need time to write them all. I’ve been writing and story crafting a long time. When I was […]
I swear I didn’t know about Blaugust
But I’m certainly not going to pass it up. Good practice to figure things out. Lately I’ve been doing a lot more creatively. Definitely a bit of a mess focus-wise, but I’m making a lot of progress on improving things. Most of my characters are from a setting created by someone else, and it shows. […]