When you have one oft-neglected geek blog, what's the best way to build up momentum? Why, start working on a completely different blog, of course!
With quite a bit of outside help, I'm finally taking some time to detail the "retrocyberdungeonpunk" setting I wrote a little about way back when. There's just a tiny "team" plugging away at it, but the first few posts have gone up quickly, and it's been a lot of fun to think about and work on.
The high concept/cliché is a world Inside a Computer System, obviously influenced by TRON, but also taking cues from classic ASCII-based roguelike games and fantasy gaming in general (e.g., of course, D&D). I know the premise isn't too far from the old Fantasy Flight d20 game Virtual, but I hope there's enough ground to cover that the repeated elements can simply be seen as a tribute to that game (which is very cool and which I recommend checking out, btw).
At any rate, please head over to PermaDeath.Net (actually, updating 20250623 to note that I let that domain expire, so you'll have to go straight to its Blogger addy at https://asciiverse.blogspot.com/) if you'd like to see what's being built. Hope to keep adding more on the regular...!
