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Gaming and writing- Fate session planning adapted to novel outline

Since I last blogged about GMing, I’ve actually started a brand new Fate game rather than dragging the carcass of that old game left by the Fiasco. But that’s not the main point of this post.  In outlining the twin sister story, I’ve kind of hit a wall in the sense that I can summariseContinue reading “Gaming and writing- Fate session planning adapted to novel outline”

Mini Reading Challenge 2026- Waterlily 

This is my set theme for this year. A cursory search on my local library catalogue turns up a memoir, a couple mysteries and the remaining spot is still empty.  The memoir is The Dressmaker’s Daughter by Kate Llewellyn. The mysteries are Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lyn Barnes and Deep Water by Peter Corris.Continue reading “Mini Reading Challenge 2026- Waterlily “

Writing pile 2026

I am going to bring back the concept of having a writing pile for myself. As my last post referred to, I’ve now decided to run three rather than two projects side by side. The twin sister story is still going to be the primary project since I’ve already started to outline it since theContinue reading “Writing pile 2026”

CCC day 31- Thieving Friends (Fate Accelerated) 

For the last day of CCC, I’m really short on the premise so I’m just going to grab a novel idea that is not active, generated by ChatGPT, about two thieves who escaped an executioneer’s wagon and then was cursed to age differently.  Ye (Night) Aspects:  Approaches: Careful+3, Sneaky and Forceful+2, Clever and Quick+1 Stunts:Continue reading “CCC day 31- Thieving Friends (Fate Accelerated) “

CCC days 27, 28, 29 and 30- Time Line Protectors Team 2 (Fate Accelerated)

I can’t think of more premise for my character so I’m going to create an alternative team of characters for the same premise as the last post  Melinda Howl, The Alpha Aspects:  Approaches: Flashy +3, Quick and Forceful+2, Careful and Clever+1 Stunts: Heather Black, The Beta Aspects:  Approaches: Forceful +3, Clever and Sneaky+2, Quick andContinue reading “CCC days 27, 28, 29 and 30- Time Line Protectors Team 2 (Fate Accelerated)”

CCC days 23, 24, 25 and 26- Time Line Protectors (Fate Accelerated) 

This is a game I started but abandoned after one session because one player in our gaming group consistently claimed that he had no energy to run a game for us and then whenever one of us tried to cover for him gave really convincing reasons of why real life took him away.  Anyway, theContinue reading “CCC days 23, 24, 25 and 26- Time Line Protectors (Fate Accelerated) “

CCC days 21 and 22- Investigators against Occult Terrorists (EstoTerrorist using Gumshoe rules) 

Out of ideas and just had my hands on the EstoTerrorist rulebook so here are two characters:  Wiccan witch  Investigative Skills: General Skills: Werewolf druid Investigative Skills: General Skills:

CCC days 19 and 20- System bounty hunters (Fate Core) 

This is from a game I’m currently GMing in Fate Core. The last game was put on indefinite hold due to one of the players being taken away from gaming due to life events. The new game features an alternative Earth where Systems run amok, coming from other dimensions via breaches. They take human beingsContinue reading “CCC days 19 and 20- System bounty hunters (Fate Core) “

CCC days 16, 17 and 18- Immortals (Fate Core)

I had to raid my childhood memory for a premise for character generation and the one I went with was just Daily Lives of Immortals with frequent visits to the Mortal Realm and no basic plot, just scenes that we wanted to act out on a given day (I was the Flower Immortal, my classmateContinue reading “CCC days 16, 17 and 18- Immortals (Fate Core)”