The Sakura Dojo

I have a Kickstarter for my Sea of Stars Campaign Setting

Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:26:47 GMT

Your support would be welcome.

It is for the Pathfinder rules set but should be adaptable to most fantasy settings and we will be doing conversion guides to FATE, D&D and, if we hit the stretch goals, Savage Worlds and 13th Age. You can find more information and offer support here.

There is a free adventure linked on the Kickstarter page you can download to get a feel for the setting.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Items of Power and Ambition

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:56:55 GMT

Items of Power and Ambition!

This is a collection of magic items for Pathfinder with wonderful illustrations from Tamás Baranya and written by me! Go and buy someone a Solstice present of wonderful magic items!

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Visit Tschai - for Free!

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:22:24 GMT

At the Jack Vance Official Website you can get the Chasch, first book of the Tschai - Planet of Adventure series for free in ebook format (and a ton of his books as ebooks too). Certainly worth grabbing as Vance's culture building skills are phenomenal.

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Sorry for the vanishing

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:46:15 GMT

Since I am doing most of my internet posting at my Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal, JL and DW have gotten a bit neglected. Sorry all. Will try to be better about that.

Just ran a crazy four-part Legend of the Five Rings mini-campaign (framework here) which went surprisingly well and has hardened me for GenCon where I am running seven (yes, 7) sessions of the L5R RPG for AEG (the company that makes the game). Wish me luck!

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The Eighth Doctor

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:27:35 GMT

Got the Fox/BBC Doctor Who movie for Christmas and watched it last night, much better than I remembered but still not great. McGann would have made an excellent Doctor, shame that the plot of the movie was so very weak. Still, surprised to see how much of the movie was incorporated into the New Who.

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Thank you, brave soldiers

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:11:35 GMT

My thoughts on Armistice Day, with poem.

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Win Nifty Aztec Fiction

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:28:51 GMT

and more, over at Aliette de Bodard's blog to celebrate the release of her new book, Master of the House of Darts.

One of the way you can get entries is to prepare and photograph an Aztec food item! How cool is that!

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I am the 00.0000000003%

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:31:44 GMT

In the end, we are each a minority of one. While I support a few of the ideas of the Occupy Wall Street crowd, I find their devotion to group-think, group identity and equality of outcomes worrying.

I am 00.0000000003% of the United States population and I am an individual.

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Speak Out with your Geek Out

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:19:47 GMT

This is, barely, not too late. I encourage you to join the upcoming Speak Out with your Geek Out, from the 12th to the 16th of September, let your geek flag fly and show people how much you love your hobbies and obsession. Hopefully we can turn this into a yearly celebration of geekiness in all things. Thanks to Monica Valentinelli for getting this rolling.

And my geekiness can mostly be found at the Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal these days.

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Guadalcanal Diary and my first AthFest

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:38:28 GMT

So, we have lived in Athens, Georgia, for 13 years and last night was the first time we attended AthFest, the yearly festival of music and arts. We went down because Guadalcanal Diary had reformed for their 30th Anniversary and were playing two shows, the first at AthFest! It was a great show with many of our favorite songs being played (including Lips of Steel which was the very first song of theirs we had heard). Much fun.

Unfortunately, being a free outdoor concert, we had to contend with lots of people wandering aimlessly through the area, talking, getting in the way, smoking, drinking and so on. Still, well worth it to see Guadalcanal Diary who were rocking and having a good time, playing three (!) encores! We grabbed t-shirts and their live CD (from 1998!) which completes my collection of their easy to get hold of music.

Here is a video for their song Always Saturday which I think if the only actual, official video they have. But several other of their songs are up on YouTube as well. Give them a listen.

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A light political rant

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:10:22 GMT

( For your morning pleasure )

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Testing and supporting a good book

Tue, 10 May 2011 01:17:20 GMT

JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff (editors) collection of magic and lesbian love, called Hellebore and Rue is finally out. You can read more about it at JoSelle's Memory Palace.

This is also to test to see if Dreamwidth is crossposting properly to LJ.

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