Recent Projects
I look at the last year’s projects, including Demon and Blood and Smoke, and wonder about the future of blogging versus G+. Read More …
Author: Rose Bailey
Star Trek and Sci-Fi conflicts with Cortex Plus
Explore Sci-Fi conflicts in the style of Star Trek, Forbidden Planet, and Starship Polaris. Read More …
Star Trek-style gaming with Cortex Plus
Explore Cortex+ space opera in the vein of Star Trek, Forbidden Planet, and Starship Polaris. Read More …
A Trailer
The sound of bagpipes. “Amazing Grace.” The camera pans across a row of coffins draped in American flags. A scrap of metal-plating lies at the end of the field. It reads “Monitor 0-X.” GRUFF MILITARY VOICE: “We’re gathered here today to pay tribute to the crew of the Monitor. Lost in our first contact with Read More …
The laughter of heroes
Cavaliers of Mars is about the contrast between the sadness of a dying world and the frantic vitality of its last renaissance. So there’s a sense of melancholy to it, as well as a reckless energy and a sense of laughter at the morbid and absurd. That laughter is a trait of the better sort Read More …
New Year
Happy new year, everyone! I haven’t gotten Fantasy Heartbreaker back off the ground yet, but I’ve been pretty busy with gaming stuff. I’ve taken another day job in video games, and I’ve been hard at work on tabletop stuff, mainly for White Wolf/Onyx Path. The next big Vampire book is Blood and Smoke: The Strix Chronicle. Read More …
An important message
From Chuck Wendig, novelist and beloved White Wolf author/developer: All kinds of people are geeks. And geeks geek out about all kinds of geekery. Women can be geeks. Many are. How they look or how they dress is irrelevant to their identity of being a geek. Being a geek isn’t something that comes with a Read More …
Story of the Year
It’s been one year exactly since I was laid off from CCP. Feels like longer. What have I been up to? I took a job with ZeniMax and moved to Baltimore. Great team, great project… but my partner couldn’t make the move, so I’m headed back to Georgia. Between that and some other personal life Read More …
Sacraments & Blasphemies
Blood Sorcery: Sacraments & Blasphemies for Vampire: The Requiem is out now. You get an improv ritual system for Theban Sorcery and Cruac inspired by Mage and Witchfinder, plus a new class of sacrifice-based charms called Threnodies that let you add a little bit of black magic to any character. We round that out with some cool Read More …
Introducing the Onyx Path
At Gen Con, White Wolf creative director Richard Thomas has announced his new venture, Onyx Path Publishing. Onyx Path has a really cool lineup of roleplaying games, including: Cavaliers of Mars, my game of swashbuckling Martian adventure. Both Worlds of Darkness and Exalted, under license from CCP. Trinity and Scion, which Onyx Path now owns. Read More …