fragments of a blue ruin
You are watched, by kindly eyes in the dark. Your imperfections are invitations, each blemish an opportunity for the observer to prove their love. Although they do not know you, they love you as they would a newborn child, and each cut or bruise you receive hurts the watcher as though the injury was to… Continue reading COSSETING CHRYSALID
I wanted to appraise my beloved readers of an extremely exciting third-party Vaarn project which is being developed by Jacob Marks, game designer and member of the Vaarn discord server. This project is the Vaarn Atlas, an an in-game artefact, toy, generator, and tool that creates interactive maps of Vaarn's Interior in accordance with the… Continue reading VAARN ATLAS
This is another post focusing on the merging points between classic B/X-style fantasy, and science-fantasy. I was partly prompted to write this by an email from the GM of a Vaarn campaign, asking for my thoughts on incorporating traditional magic-user PCs into Vaults of Vaarn. I'm personally happy with how Mystic Gifts work in vanilla… Continue reading SOURCERY
Some news: I've started a podcast (or podecast) with my partner Shikara. It's called The Antipode Cast and you can listen to it right now. It's intended to focus less on Vaarn and more on zine and small-press culture as a whole, the stuff we're stocking on our store and are excited about, and some… Continue reading The Antipode Cast
The Construct Itself Of all the artefacts the ancients left littered across the cerulean sands of Vaarn, few are more imposing than the canted bulwark of pale ferrosteel that is known variously as the Great Wall, the Weeping Wall, the Backbone of the Gods, the Titanspine, and the Sacred Impediment. The Wall forms the western… Continue reading THE WALL
I hope you'll forgive the title; I know it's only marginally amusing but once I thought of it I had to do something with it. Anyway, this post was sparked by a discussion I had on Reddit about re-skinning dungeons and monsters from classic fantasy RPGs to the Vaults of Vaarn setting. This is an… Continue reading B/X TO THE FUTURE
I have a new interview out with the Wobblies & Wizards podcast. I talk to Logar the Barbarian about Vaarn, Moebius, academia, making zines, distributing zines, the Antipode Zines store, e-readers vs printed books, why people still love zines in a digital world, and more. Logar is a great interviewer and keeps the energy high… Continue reading Guest Spot on Wobblies & Wizards
Hello folks, I've got something new on sale at Antipode! Presenting the first Vaults of Vaarn Adventure Pack. The mysterious, far-future wasteland of Vaarn is expanded in this pack of three short format adventure locations. Together Khenet Rock, Eigin Oasis, and The Tomb of Nassak An-Rah provide two challenging dungeons and one safe haven for your vault raiders. Khenet… Continue reading VAULTS OF VAARN: ADVENTURE PACK 1
Last time, our intrepid adventurers battled themselves in jelly-clone form, finally drained the water from the flooded lower level of the Water Baron's Aquifer machine, and were ambushed by some glider spiders in a tunnel. We left them standing at the bottom of the main shaft, faced with the newly revealed body of the Hydra… Continue reading VAARN ACTUAL PLAY: EPISODE 31
The new year has brought a new venture: I am the proud co-founder of an online store called Antipode Zines. This storefront will be replacing my old Big Cartel shop as the place where you can buy Vaults of Vaarn, Bloodheist, and anything else I make straight from the author. That isn't all however! Antipode… Continue reading Antipode Zines
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