Merry Christmas from the Steampunk Age of SuperMankind! Emerging from the dubious dives of the Victorious offices, we bring you a holiday treat; a free adventure set in Victorian New York City. The Russian witch Baba Yaga is stalking the streets of Gotham, ste...
Genteel Magistrate
Blake’s 7 Victorious: New Skills
Greetings all, The holidays have conspired to delay the classes post for the Blake’s 7 Victorious rules. Well, that and the Victorious short adventure “The Nights Before Christmas” that the wife is busily working on formatting. To give our readers so...
Blake’s 7 Victorious
Victorious as a role-playing game is based predominantly in super heroics in the context of Victorian era Steam technology. At first glance, this seems to be inappropriate to a science fiction show like the BBC’s Blake’s 7 (1978-1981). However, I believe t...
A Victorious Christmas!
Greetings all in this Yule season! The fellows over at the Gag Men podcast once again finagled Elizabeth and I to come over and discuss Victorious, and in the doing create an adventure. Unlike the Grim chronicle of the Halloween Victorious adventure “A W...
Victorious is Live!
Greetings all, The blog has been a bit sparse with the coming of the holidays, but here’s something to consider when doing your Christmas shopping: The Victorious RPG is now in full distribution, and can be ordered on Amazon or other booksellers around t...
Rose City Comic Con: After-Action Report
Greetings all, My lovely wife and I went to the Rose City Comic Con this past weekend in verdant Tyler, Texas. As a guest, I was able to get a table to set up various wares, and we finally had Victorious books to sell! The weekend was pretty packed, so I’ll ...
Where Duty Lies Part 1: The “Prior Engagement” Shortcoming in Victorious
The shortcoming called Prior Engagement is given a brief description in the Victorious rulebook, to wit: “Prior Engagement: Not everyone can dedicate all or even most of his or her time to fighting crime. In fact, some find it difficult to escape their more ...
A Review of Victorious
Greetings all, Below is a review of the Victorious RPG by Timothy Brannan (author of Ghosts of Albion) that is fair and research. Do take a look and say “Hello!” to the good man. 🙂 http://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2016/10/review-victor...
The World can be Saved by Steam!
Steampunk as a genre has many tropes, but perhaps the single most important is the use of steam power. Steam was the power source of the Victorian era, and only near the end did electricity begin to take its place. The Internal Combustion Engine also overthrew...
The Flavor of Names
When I was writing the Victorious RPG, I ran into a bit of a conundrum. Well, several actually but this post I’ll note just one. <G> There are two schools of thought in the RPG community regarding naming. The first is that the different names given to ...