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Endless Seas: Dead Portals

April 27, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

First story Captain’s report: We have been dispatched to Portal-178, located ten days sail outside of Pantheon territory.  The scout ship sent to investigate it determined it to be a dead portal, with dry land on the other side.  While scouting through the portal, they made an astounding discovery and we’ve been ordered to assist […]

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Endless Seas: Mutiny on the Wyvern

April 20, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

First story Captain’s report:  We have been dispatched to Hollowmound, a virgin culture without any worship of gods.  The Pantheon ship ‘Wyvern’ has stopped sending reports after being dispatched to prepare the culture for a missionary expedition.  Our instructions are to investigate, recover the ship, and save her crew or determine what happened to them. […]

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Writers Who Stop Writing

April 17, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

There’s a vast horde of people who desperately want to become writers. They’ll dream about it, read advice books, and badger published authors for tips. If such people ever achieved success as an author, you’d expect that they’d spend their days writing in a bliss-filled reverie. Instead, you find that at every step, people drop […]

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Endless Seas: The Ghost in the Darkness

April 13, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

First story Captain’s report: We have arrived on World-42, an uninhabited ocean world claimed by the Pantheon.  A pilot project built an underwater mining installation here.  It was successfully shipping ore until recently when they sent a distress report detailing attacks from some sort of monstrous creature.   Following the detailed navigation chart, the Phoenix […]

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The ‘Game of Thrones’ method of Complex Character Creation

April 10, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

About a year ago an interesting post on Reddit promised a way to “make your character complex, realistic, and three dimensional, simply by writing down two things that they want.” This was posted in /r/rpg and was intended for people making characters in games like Dungeons and Dragons. The idea was interesting and struck me […]

Filed Under: Role Playing, Self Publishing

Endless Seas: The Hand That Feeds

April 6, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

First story Captain’s report:  While docked at the main port of the Tares, a remote, Pantheon trading partner, we have the opportunity to provide shore leave to the crew.  It has proven to be a welcome respite from the weeks at sea and the uncertain reception from cultures outside of the Pantheon.  With a stocked […]

Filed Under: Serialized Writing

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