This episode of Ideology of Madness Actual Play features the first of our APs recorded at Fear the Con 7 in St. Louis. A warrant to serve up on The Plateau, a cult of rowdy Robo-theists to wrangle and a bug invasion to stomp all before lunch. Ain’t nobody said Rangerin’ was easy. Fortunately, the […]
I was putting dinner together for my players when The Wife asked, “Sandwiches? Again? Aren’t you worried they’re going to get tired of this? Don’t you want some variety in your menu for game night?” I blinked in confusion. What? Not want sandwiches? No am make sense. Of course, The Wife is the same person […]
If there’s one thing I suck at in my games, it’s predicting run time. Back in April, I thought I had one, maybe two sessions left in the first season of my This Empire Earth game. We’ve run two games since then and I still think I’ve got two more sittings before the curtain falls. […]
A sure sign that the conversation at a management conference has exceeded its “best by” date is when the topic turns to “What management book are you reading now?’ You know the books I’m talking about, right? Craptastic fare such as Who Moved My Cheese, The One Minute Manager, and The Seven Habits of Highly […]
Just as excited as I can be about this. I woke this morning to find new artwork in my inbox for my homebrew SciFi setting, This Empire Earth. The latest item features the Ikati, the empires answer to cat-people. Those who have dealt with an Ikat or two will report that you never know when […]
The Empusans are a race of insects resembling large Portuguese Praying Mantis’. Very large. Like ten feet large. The Empusans are an old race, their history ranging back more than a hundred millenia. By contrast, they are incredibly short-lived living for only ten to fifteen years before succumbing to old age. They have no interest […]
The Bigozians were the first sentient alien race to encounter humanity, even though the Martians were literally next door (oh yes, there are Martians… more on them later). And of course, the humans did not realize what they saw – or thought they saw – was from outerspace. Bigozians are giant, burly humanoid creatures who […]
This is the first of a series of articles concerning my homebrew SF setting originally posted at my personal site, EvilBastard.net, which I’m importing over here to IoM. At the dawn of the 28th Century, the powerful hand of Imperial Earth stretches far across the stars touching the lives of countless humans and aliens alike. […]
I’ve been designing my homebrew SciFi setting for awhile now. I’ve worked on it solo and opened it up to sandbox sessions with my players. It’s turning into quite a robust universe. The Empire is a big play ground complete with nobility and political intrigue, interstellar warships waging galactic scale battles, and merchants just trying […]
After we wrapped up our sandbox brainstorming session on our race of cat people Saturday night, I led my players in the first portion of character generation. Over the last several years, I have made it a habit to lead character generation through email. It takes such a long time to make characters that its […]