Updating Images In Here

I fixed a bunch of these.

Thought I'd jot down a quick update. I use plenty of images from Wikimedia Commons to illustrate posts in here, like the one attached to this post. Come to find out, the "Use This Image On The Web" HTML code that I cut-and-paste into the post source stopped working recently. So I spent about an hour this morning clicking links, getting the "clean" URLs for the image source from Wikimedia Commons, editing and updating the post, checking that it works, and moving to the next one.

I've checked and updated posts for the past 2 years, so I think I'm pretty safe for anyone clicking "Older Posts" a bunch, but not so much with specific posts. I know some older articles have broken links and images, mostly because the gaming blogosphere has changed over the past 2 decades, and links die sometimes. If you find an issue and point it out to me, I'll try to link to the Wayback Machine instead of a now-nonexistent URL.

Anyway, I just wanted to document that I updated and fixed some images, so when I forget I'll have at least some record that things changed.

Thanks for reading this little nothing update. As a reward... naah, just stay tuned for more stuff. I'm almost done with Taberna Celeris and I need to make some maps for my Appendix N Jam entry.

Onward!

Bolthaven Folio #4 Is Live

Space Marine
by blanketfort

Howdy, all!

I just hit the "Make Public" buttons for Bolthaven Folio #4: On Our Honour at my itch.io and DriveThruRPG stores. I wrote the first draft of this zine back in 2019, when I first conceived of Bolthaven Folios, and then I sat on it for 7 years. Thanks COVID-19, undiagnosed depression, and the general enshittification of America.

BUT WE'RE BACK NOW. I overhauled what I wrote, and my kid wanted a second crack at the art (and I love what they did!). So we spent most of June making this zine to unleash upon you and your tabletop game cohorts. Head over and download a copy, kick in a few bucks if you're able, and don't forget to rate and review.

Go grab your copy:
Folio #4 at itch
Folio #4 at DriveThruRPG

Republishing Old Projects

So I've been re-releasing a few old projects on my itch store. I want everything I've made in one place, and I've settled on itch as my publishing home for now.

NanoRegent

First up, NanoRegent (originally mentioned over here) strives to create a more free-form domain management game. Players take on the role of nations on an international stage. The nations ebb and flow, conflicting and cooperating, mostly through creating and using Aspects to fuel or resist changes as directed by Edicts made by each country. Actions resolve through a roll of 4 Fate Dice, with the victor being able to narrate the results. The game ends by mutual agreement when the story seems to have run its course.

It's not for everyone, since all of the creative burden falls on the players rather than the system, but I'm excited to see if this resonates with the more adventurous groups out there.

Irons In Fires

Happy Zine Month!

I've made a goal to publish 6 things in 2026. I'm knee deep in laying out and polishing up Bolthaven Folio #3 right now, and I've got a new editing gig in the door, so the next few weeks feel very full. I've got some other projects in the hopper, but I may take a look back and rehab some old projects during March. So let's see what's on my mind lately.

The Present

I've done some testing with the Settlement System that appears in Bolthaven Folio #3. It's minimal as tests go, but I think the system holds up. It'll be interesting to see this work at larger settlement sizes. I'm hoping to get that published this week for Zine Month (#ZiMo), so stay tuned. And the aforementioned editing gig just kicked off, so I'll be distracted for the next few weeks.

Promptober's On Hold

Current Mental State

I have 6 prompts left to go for the month, and 2 days to get them done. I'm knee deep in an editing gig, I'm driving my mother to surgery and a follow-up appointment over the next 2 days, and it's Halloween. Suffice to say I'm not finishing before the end of the month unless I really phone it in. And I'd rather wait to produce something decent than hit an arbitrary deadline with creations that fall short of my own expectations.

Cranking out 25 of 31 prompts isn't a bad thing, but it's not the full challenge. Still, that's 25 things that didn't exist before I signed on. I'm mostly sticking with a fantasy setting, which makes some of the prompts more challenging. I'm probably going with another piece of futuristic fiction for Found Footage, though. Stay tuned.

Two Weeks In Stone Limbo

Felt this big. It did not rock.

Hi. It's been 2 weeks since I posted. Why? Well...

I posted for my birthday, then went to run my D&D 5e game. About 2.5 hours in, I got dizzy, nauseous, and feverish all of a sudden, and my pants felt far too tight. One trip to the ER later, with two IVs (the first one wouldn't clear so they ran a second one), a CT scan, some morphine, and a couple of scrips, they told me I had a 4mm kidney stone. They also gave me a 10-day course of antibiotics for the UTI they found, though I'm guessing the bacteria they found was my fault, because intense pain and morphine makes peeing in a cup =so= easy.

Apparently the antibiotics made me feel like crap. I've had zero pain since then, but I've just been so tired for two weeks. I'd sit and make myself available to actually write something, and then just nod off at my desk. The antibiotics ended on Wednesday, but yesterday was the first day I felt passably human. I've been doing the minimum required for the past 2 weeks, and there's much to catch up with, gaming and otherwise.