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Ian Reads World of Darkness: Chapter 1: The Secret History

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Ian

So today I cover both the Prologue story and Chapter 1: The Secret History in the World of Darkness core rulebook.  I hope you enjoy it! Prologue The prologue is a very good piece of storytelling.  The story of someone getting … Continue reading →

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Ian Reads World of Darkness Delayed!

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Ian

Hey all, due to a combination of medical stuff and extra work this week, the first article of Ian Reads WoD is being delayed a week.  Check back here next Friday (March 21st) for the start of the series proper. … Continue reading →

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Ian Reads World of Darkness: An Introduction

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Ian

Hey everyone!  So there’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: finally get a chance to actually read the World of Darkness books.  And to make it so I’m accountable for reading them, I’ve decided to start a … Continue reading →

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Nautilus News Network: The Quality Curve

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Ian

Hey everyone! Just thought I should let you know that I have a new post about Nautilus’s game mechanics up over at the Nautilus RPG site. Go check it out!  In this post I talk about the core leveling system … Continue reading →

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A Quick 2013 Wrap-up

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Ian

So, that happened. 2013 was a year of ups and downs for me.  I graduated from UCI, moved up to Seattle, and am finally starting to find my feet in the new city.  I have a decent job, a few … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction Friday: 1,667

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Ian

Hey everybody!  So, Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenge this week is to post the 1,667 words from your first day of NaNoWriMo for this year. Mine ended up being a little bit over that, at around 1900 words for my … Continue reading →

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Geek Girl Con 2013: Sunday (Part 2)

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Ian

Okay then, onto part 2.  This day was mostly panels for me.  There may also be one more post where I mention some of the lovely people I met that didn’t make it into the various days’ writeups.  (Mostly because … Continue reading →

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Geek Girl Con 2013: Saturday (Part 1)

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Ian

Hey everyone!  I went to Geek Girl Con this year and had a grand ol’ time, and I thought I’d share what I did and my thoughts on the con as a whole.  This was my first time there, and … Continue reading →

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The Spider’s Spire

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Ian

Sorry this is so late this week.  Mr. Wendig’s challenge wasn’t up yet when I went to do my writing, and though I wrote this on Saturday it took me a while to edit it down to (exactly) 1000 words … Continue reading →

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Nautilus News Network: Starships

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Ian

Hey everyone! So Nautilus this past week has most been me working away at starship combat.  Originally, we based it off of Stormwrack‘s ship combat, but that had the issue of being too hard to scale up to more than … Continue reading →

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