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Tag Archives: Book excerpt
Toonaria: The Dark Over
Apparently all communications networks died simultaneously. What technology wasn’t destroyed, malfunctioned, be it radio, missile silo, or two-slice toaster. Certain technologies were morphed into odd, arcane caricatures of their former designs. Many inanimate objects gained a semblance of life and crawled from the rubble. Screams and then profound silence followed, heralding a season of impenetrable darkness called the Dark Over. Continue reading →
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Tagged Adventure, Book excerpt, campaign setting, fantasy, fiction, Magic, publishing, roleplaying game, RPG, scifi, universal RPG
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Toonaria: Creating a Universe Part 3
Toonaria came together on its own, showing me it was needed, because I couldn’t stop drawing and writing about it! And it filled a different niche, one that inspired laughter, hope and courage, touching on different and sometimes important concepts in ways I could never address in my more serious Cosmoverse. Continue reading →
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Tagged Art, author, Book excerpt, Cosmoverse, Dreams, fantasy, fiction, Magic, publishing, RPG, science fiction, Toonaria, Writing
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Mysteries of Toonaria: Part 2
“How is this even possible?” He shuddered when he thought back over the past forty-eight hours. “The GodStorm . . . it did this to me,” he whispered, as if to speak of it louder might summon the magical anomaly. He recalled the stories he’d been told in his youth of Deamond, Ariam, Lorel, Vomix and other gods who were swept up in the storm, lost forever, their spirits becoming one with the storm. He shuddered again. Continue reading →
Posted in anthology, Arcane Synthesis, author, blended-genre, Campaign Setting, Cosmoverse, fantasy, Fiction, games, novel, QT Games, Roleplaying, RPG, superheroes, Toonaria, Uncategorized
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Tagged anthologies, author, Book excerpt, Cosmoverse, Epic Destinies, fantasy, fiction, GodStorm, QT Games, roleplaying, RPG, scifi, Toonaria, Writing
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Designer Diary #14: Fiction Givaway + Roleplaying Games and Settings Questions (Part 2)
One might think after thirty-six years I would have tired of the Cosmoverse—the universe I started creating in 1978 and have been running adventures in for decades, or that I would have at least moved on from the game I … Continue reading →
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Tagged anthology, Arcane Synthesis, Art, author, Blended-genre, Bob Whitely, Book excerpt, brainstorm, campaign setting, Cosmothea, Cosmoverse, crowdfunding, Dream, Game Design, Game Designer, game mechanics, questions, roleplaying, RPG, setting
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Designer Diary #12: Life, Fiction and Gaming
Hi folks, today, I’m splitting this blog post into three topics, revisiting a Facebook post I made the other day that you might have missed about life, followed by a bite-sized (maybe two bites) update on my fiction and a … Continue reading →
Posted in author, Campaign Setting, Cosmothea, Cosmoverse, Encouragement, Fiction, Game Design, games, Hope, Kickstarter, Life, Play-by-Post, publishing, Roleplaying, RPG
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Tagged Adventure, anthologies, anthology, Arcane Synthesis, author, Blended-genre, Bob Whitely, Book excerpt, campaign setting, Christian, Cosmothea, Cosmoverse, Divine Synthesis, Encouragement
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Designer Diary #9: Gaming and Fiction (Part 1)
Since there was no significant response to my post on publishing, I’ll skip Part 2 for now and give you a QT Games update and talk a bit about game design, Cosmothea and the Cosmoverse. My goal is to post … Continue reading →
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Tagged anthologies, anthology, Arcane Synthesis, author, Blended-genre, Bob Whitely, Book excerpt, brainstorm, campaign setting, character creation, Cosmothea, Cosmoverse, crowdfunding
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Arcane Synthesis: A Blended-Genre Anthology (Excerpt)
Hi all, I created an author page over at Goodreads and put the book up there. I also made a book page for Arcane Synthesis on our QT Games website (I’ll update the rest of the site one of these … Continue reading →
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Tagged anthologies, anthology, Arcane Synthesis, Art, author, Blended-genre, Bob Whitely, Book excerpt, campaign setting, Cosmothea, Cosmoverse, fiction, hybrid, Multi-genre, QT Games, RPG
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