It is not easy being green – RPG Blog Carnival

Joining in on this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, this month’s theme is It is not easy being Green with RPG Wonderings is our host on this journey.  Please feel free to join in even if you do not have a journal, link to a Facebook post or whatever you feel comfortable with sharing as we are always happy to have more people joining in.

Now, there are all kinds of ways to go with this month’s theme, I will have to narrow it down.  I could write about:

The role of Jade in the Sea of Stars, with or without a compare and contrast with Jade in the Legend of the Five Rings setting.

I could highlight some of the Green Dragons or a Draconic House associated with green dragons in the Sea of Stars,

Perhaps something about the forests of the Eathkin in the Sea of Stars.

Maybe thoughts for ecological-themed (“green”) adventures in the Sixth World of Shadowrun,

Or green-themed supervillains or heroes (or both) for my superheroes of the 1960s campaign.

Do any of those ideas appeal?  If so, let me know and I will do my best to create for it or I will choose one or more of them (or something else) for my contribution to the carnival.

Image photo from Piotr Siedlecki on PublicDomainPictures.net and is in the Public Domain.

Celebrating Favorite Campaign Settings – RPG Blog Carnival

Joining in on this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, this month’s theme is Celebrando tu escenario de campaña favorito (or, loosely translated, Celebrating Your Favorite Campaign Scenario, but they are really aiming for is your favorite campaign setting, I think, not just adventure.  Codex Anathema is again our host.  Please feel free to join in even if you do not have a journal, link to a Facebook post or whatever, we are always happy to have more people joining in.

Naturally, my favorites are my own, the Sea of Stars fantasy setting for which this journal is named and my superheroic world of Earth-H.  But the question is really asked of published worlds, the ones that thousands of people can be playing in and can be a shared touchstone, and for those my answers are:

Dragons Feasts and Foods

I have missed the last few, but I will not miss this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, this month is hosted by VDonnut Valley and the theme is Feasts, Foods, and Fancy Drinks.  You should contribute too if you have a fun idea you want to share.

Dragons, as a general rule, enjoy eating and consuming food, indeed it is one of the Seven Tenants of the Draconic Philosophy of Dominae:

Consumption, the strength of the physical form must be maintained.

Naturally, different dragons interpret this dictum in very different ways.

Dark Future Ahead 35 – News from the ‘Net of a Cyberpunk bent

Seeing the future from today! I have been roaming the Net/Matrix so you do not have to!  In search of interesting stories of (possibly) coming technologies and societal changes.  Inspire and inform you near-future, cyberpunk and science fiction games and settings with today’s technologies and trends!  Most do not take too much of a turn

So much for you today!  Planning, power, and more!

Shadowrun Character – Sparrow

This is a character that has been floating around in my head for ages but I have never had a chance to play.  I just started writing up a background story for RPGGeek‘s 2024 Character Creation Challenge and it spiralled from there.

Sparrow is an orkish adept who specializes in physical enhancement and knife fighting.  This is her story (skip down to the bottom for the game stuff):

Dark Future Ahead 34 – News from the ‘Net of a Cyberpunk bent

Scouring the Net/Matrix so you do not have to!  In search of interesting stories of (possibly) coming technologies and societal changes.  Use them to inspire and inform you near-future, cyberpunk and science fiction games and settings!  Most do not take too much of a tweak to make them dark and dangerous.

A variety of drones, new battery technology, a look at the intersection of culture and business, and more for you today.

Dark Future Ahead 33 – News from the ‘Net of a Cyberpunk bent

As usual, I have been following interesting technology and culture-related stories that might be interesting to remix and use in Cyberpunk and near future (or even proper science fiction) roleplaying games.  Perhaps they not dark in and of themselves but some of the uses they could be put to are, use your imagination.

RPG Blog Carnival – Archaeology of the Sea of Stars

In support of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival “Archaeology and Anthropology” (hosted by the Beneath Foreign Planets) here is some discussion about what lies buried in the Sea of Stars.

Many of the lands of the Sea of Stars are built on, sometimes quite deep, archaeology, when the Sunderingtore the world apart, cities were buried, mountains grew when none had been before, oceans boiled away, the world changed and many cities and settlements were lost not only to the visible world but soon to memory too as the dragons exerted their control and moved displaced people to places where they could best serve, often leaving their homelands and the things that ties their stories and legends to actual places behind.

RPG Blog Carnival – Faction and Friction in the Sea of Stars

In support of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival “Cabals and Congregations” (hosted by the Codex Anathema) here is some discussion about the factions and friction between them in the Sea of Stars.

The primary factions on the highest level are the Draconic Houses, ruled by the various dragons and their descendants, the various powerful states which -while technically ruled by one or more dragons may or may not be acting in their interests- and the Imperium of the Empress, which usually stands aside and lets the others squabble among themselves as long as it does not threaten her interests of the stability of the system as a whole.

RPG Blog Carnival – Weather in the Sea of Stars

In support of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival “Terrain, Seasons, Weather (oh my)” (hosted by the Plastic Polyhedra) I thought that I should talk about the weather.

The weather in the Sea of Stars, like almost everything else, is odd but not entirely unpredictable.  The entirety of the Sea of Stars follows the same seasons, so it is spring everywhere and so on.  This is how the Empress wants it to be and so it is.

There are places that have oddly persistent or predictable weather patterns, there are places where it always rains at two in the afternoon for exactly an hour and then stops, others where it is always foggy in the morning, or that it always snows on certain days.