Dear heroes ...
We are over 700. Thank you.
I don't have the words to express how much your support means to me. I'm quite tired these days (corona in the house), but I'm working on two main things for the near future.
- A short adventure on war, the length of Let Us In, that I had planned for a while. Proceeds will go to humanitarian causes in Ukraine.
- Getting Uranium Butterflies (Seacat 0.85) over the finish line.
These days, this last month, has b...
2022-04-06 07:20:38 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
Welcome to March. Even though it's late in the month.
Reality intervenes: a sombre note
I planned to have this update out much earlier, but then the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened and ... I was quite distraught and not ready to publish things.
I have some small personal connection with the region. I know people from the country, I've visited Kiev, and it has also played a role in my family's history. Seeing the atrocities taking place over the last...
2022-03-24 07:27:06 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
What a day outside. A prayer for peace. I considered waiting on this update, but I decided to share. Nothing wrong with a bit of escapism.
However, I am a bit ... wordless and numb. Wrapping and prepping the spells for this update wasn't the easiest. Forgive me if my letter is a bit basic.
New in 0.82
The spells are now over 50% done. Got another 8-9 spell albums to detail, some 20 more items, some 20 vehicles ... a bit of tweaking on the consumables ......
2022-02-24 13:51:44 +0000 UTC
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Dear Heroes,
Allow me to ... interrupt ... the regular series of posts on Uranium Butterflies and Synthetic Dreams Wholesale (i.e. Seacat) with a bit of a breather post.
First, some art.
Six pine trees sung into a pavillion anchoring a beacon statolith above the village of Belna (Brezim, cf. Longwinter).
Hollowbear, Part 2 ...
After a two-month break, I published the s...
2022-02-18 08:57:52 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
Here we go. Last stretch. Putting the spells back in! Plugging the remaining gaps! Nearly there. Last endless mile, last burning sky.
The core of new stuff this time is 3 spell albums restored and a bundle of art.
Changelog v0.80 to v0.81
- New content: random trait generator (inspiration table, 120 entries).
- New content: rightmaker spells and items (album completed, 2 pages).
- New content: healing spells completed, backstory for the...
2022-02-08 06:50:47 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
dear other less-heroic readers,
First, A Game
Allow me to present an unexpected game I wrote over the last couple of weeks: Monochrome Rainbows.
This is a mostly collaborative game, where the player(s) take on the roles of eidolons acting behind the veils of time and space and well- forgotten history to create the physical and human geography of a fantasy region of the Rainbowlands.
It is a cross-over between a boardgame and a roleplaying ...
2022-02-02 03:46:37 +0000 UTC
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(1,600 words, reading time 7 weeks)
Dear heroes,
Welcome to the future of 2022! Shockingly, it is already week 3. I hope this year has welcomed you well enough.
This first post of the year comes with some quite big news. But first, the biggest.
Seacat 0.80
The biggest and most obvious change is that the book is splitting into two. One for making heroes, Uranium Butterflies*, the other for making worlds, Synthetic Dreams Wholesale**.
2022-01-18 13:36:18 +0000 UTC
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Dear Heroes of the Stratometaship.
It is that time of the year when for many the Solstice Burns and the Festivus Moon rises and the Christmas Gremlin pours water on the Midnight Capybara. And others celebrate other year's end holidays, as well.
I hope your year has been good, I hope your holidays will be swell, I hope your next year will be better. I do know that you have made my year wonderful, and for that I cannot thank you enough.
What I can do is add a little bonus, tim...
2021-12-24 08:25:41 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
Welcome to December!
The last couple of weeks have been quite nice and productive. Seacat, the anti-canon rpg (eventually I'll figure out the subtitle ... maybe we should have a poll?) is now at 282 pages. And that's with pages getting cut. Without further ado. What's new:
- All the consumables. Potions. Munitions. More. 70 of them in total. Layout not yet final. (p143-147)
- 18 pieces of adventuring gear. Plan to add at least 12 more. (p148-151)
...
2021-12-13 11:33:32 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes!
Patience rewarded, I trust!
After Let Us In and some other small distractions (new Longwinter story coming soon to Xenon Elasmotherium ... and here too), I've finally returned to the big smilodon: SEACAT.
But First, Welcome to All the New Heroes!
I used to do a personal greeting for every new hero, but at some point I had to stop and admit to myself that I would constantly fall behind on the greetings, then spend a day sending greetings...
2021-11-30 02:28:04 +0000 UTC
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Dear Heroes and the Reading Public!
A public post for a change!
Welcome to November. The last two weeks whizzed by. By now I expect it ... the blues after a project finishes. I suppose Let Us In was quite quick, so I got over the blues in a week.
Over the last week I returned to Seacat 0.77 (in progress) and some project maintenance. Although Seacat is the big white whale tiger I am riding at the moment, some other things also needed to be written.
Dear heroes!
I have to be super quick. Battery dying!
I made a cool 16-page zine for halloween - it's being printed by Exalted Funeral as part of a special bundle of LUI + Witchburner + Longwinter.
Yes, yes. Fine.
And all of you get the digital zine for free, plus 5 bonus characters!
Sorry, battery dying.
More later.
Happy spooksmass!
—Luka
EDIT: Got battery again, updated the character cards with new art for the 5 bonus characters :)...
2021-10-29 03:25:33 +0000 UTC
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Hello, dear heroes!
I have been remiss—I had hoped to post more these last few weeks, but an unexpected opportunity came up. I've often done some small thing for halloween (e.g. the Well-Gourded Village), and one could argue that both Witchburner and Longwinter* are, basically, spooky halloween-appropriate adventures.
I'd talked about the horror adventure Let Us...
2021-10-14 08:37:28 +0000 UTC
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Huh ... ok ... that title might be suggestive. Hm.
Oh, well, I'm sure it's fine ...
Dear Heroes,
Welcome back for another exciting episode of the ever-burgeoning pdf of the Black City and its Beyonds!
I turn around and it's nearly (exactly?) 3 weeks since the last update. Well, there are some big things added this time:
1.
All the offensive gear is done! 20 new charms and 30 new rhetorics (pages 120–129). There are now ...
2021-09-19 00:59:21 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes!
As warned, as threatened, I am collecting suggestions for the 667 albumo adventure.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSed_-QYBn0nrUTsVDRNPcusZW_MkyFESaZ0RfHAFfKS7AMspQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
This one is set up to collect emails ... if you do not want to submit an email, or want to participate in some other ...
2021-09-03 09:55:46 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
First ... again, I am blown away. Years ago, when I set up this patreon, I set the 667 target as a pie in the sky. Now, that pie has grown wings and here we are. Being able to create like this is absolutely life-changing. It is also deeply exciting.
The last couple of years have often been personally difficult for me. Often, a veritable roller-coaster: successes mixed with tragedies, difficult circumstances, struggles, deaths. Throughout, you've supported me—enjoyed...
2021-08-28 01:07:03 +0000 UTC
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We've made it everyone!
It's time to make the promised heavy metal post rock psychedelic apocalypse supplement.
As the poet said, "Can this still be real, or just some crazy dream?"
Well, it is.
Well done, we've beaten the chanting hordes. We're coming back, we will return — we will possess the treasures and make them burn, for we can play with madness.
Next post: the...
2021-08-26 11:10:34 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
Today's post isn't an update. It's two pieces of news.
First: Inked Cardboard Rectangles
With Saker Tarsos we're making cards using the art and the items and spells and extras and stuff in Seacat: Beyond the Black City (and the UVG as well, eventually). I'd wanted to do something like this for over a year, but I just couldn't get the creative mojo together to do it. Now, thanks to Saker, we have.
We're aiming to make a card a day and share them ...
2021-08-20 06:16:11 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
I hope this week and a bit has been good for you. It has been quite good here. Getting the chance to book an appointment for my vaccination on Monday, which will be quite a relief. The summer heatwave is also receding—after over two weeks of 35C days and 27C nights, it's good to be able to go out without instantly melting.
Now, without more ado (and before the doggo drags me out for her afternoon constitutional—I see her peeking out of the windows the way she usua...
2021-08-12 09:13:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello, heroes!
Hello, bystanders!
We're wandering mighty close to the magnificent number of 667 members of this here friendly neighbourhood stratometaship. I hadn't really thought we'd reach it when I put it up, but here we are. Here we are.
I'd been talking about re-doing some of the tiers, fixing the welcome page, nipping and tucking here and there for ages, but, somehow, something else always tugged. Write more, brain whispered. Finish commitments more, brain whispered. D...
2021-08-02 08:31:30 +0000 UTC
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Dear Heroes!
Your patience, I thank most graciously and appreciatively. I had a lovely holiday and I had a lovely Seacat update planned for last Friday.
Then, my common perfectionism took over.
You see, besides making some art, I'd also figured out how to "fix" the equipment section of the book to a format that I both like and that fits the structure of other large sections (like Skills, Traits, and Spells).
Namely, an overview spread, like so:
2021-07-27 12:05:45 +0000 UTC
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This week's post is mostly a behind-the-scenes look at how a lot of art got made. Pace, no new direct game content, mes heros.
Dear heroes,
Welcome to July. I had hoped to post the finished one-shot adventure Let Us In today, but life and work had other plans. As some of you may recall, I've been wrestling with Holy Mountain Shaker for OSE nearly a year now (I'm going to have to double-check when I can share the full pdf for it). I've ...
2021-07-09 23:24:08 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
One more for midsummer!
An update to seacat
New this time:
- art for the six example heroes that will be the first glimpse of seacat for the reader. I'm quite happy with how minimal the required stat blocks for a hero can be. Also, some people were worried the defences would be too low, but ... I can confirm that Pointyhelmet got to 18 ha defence quite easily!
- some more creatures and creature art.
- some more items.
2021-06-26 06:37:46 +0000 UTC
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Dear Heroes,
Hello! I'm back. Thank you for your patience while I wandered the red forêt of meditation and relaxation. I wrote a whole honking glob post about the experience and what I took away from it: https://www.lukarejec.com/2021/as-the-morn-so-the-day/ .
I can also summarize a TL;DR: it was a good place to work.
Seacat has breached 200 pages and 120 pieces of art. And w...
2021-06-18 13:07:34 +0000 UTC
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Hello, dear heroes!
I've been thinking of taking a virtual wood cabin retreat, probably a week long, to focus on self and work instead of world and web.
Fortuitously, a forest of unusual red and orange and teal trees has appeared near my house. Behind the verdigris towers, through the mossy grove, diagonally across the mirror lake, and corkscrewise between the sheets of one dawn and a next.
So I’m going there on a creative break for a week. It looks like a lovely place to ...
2021-06-09 06:07:07 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
Welcome to very nearly the end of this month of May. I hope you've enjoyed it as much as possible, and that you have been well. If all goes well, many of us should be able to enjoy in-person games again soon, and I for one have to say: it cannot come too soon.
This last year has driven home to me in a way that is hard to overstate how fundamentally role-playing is a social in-person activity.
First, I need to make quite a big announcement.
I'm no longer w...
2021-05-29 08:08:42 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
Welcome to mid May! We're getting closer to the halfway mark of 2020 ... uh ... sorry ... 2021. Where has that year gone?
Anyway, it's a regular update to seacat. So, what's new and improved?
- Extras and sidekicks and pets are back. Added about 10 different creatures. As is one more pengling illustration, also returned.
- The table for promoting sidekicks has also made a return, neatly revised and slightly upgraded.
- Most of the skills now ha...
2021-05-15 07:36:17 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes!
Happy belated workers' day, everyone. A great fête this day, where I come from. Together with the 27th of April, the Day of Battle Against the Occupiers (i.e. the fascists), the 1st and 2nd of May usually form a traditional "week off" back in Slovenia. One of those four points on the calendar that divide up the year, along with the collective summer holidays in high summer, Reformation Day and Day of the Dead in autumn, then Christmas and New Year in winter.
Can't s...
2021-05-04 13:43:36 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes, a regular update! Glorious, isn't it? I do hope I'm not choking your inboxes overmuch.
This week I've finally returned to the content of seacat. It's a bit of a slow switch, which I suspect is because my brain is still a little burned out.
The other challenge was that my affinity publisher file of seacat is getting long (round 140 pages with art and tables) and slow. Especially tables seem to slow down the file, and it shows most brutally in how long it takes...
2021-04-23 08:37:27 +0000 UTC
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Hello, dear heroes!
Against all forecasts, water has migrated from the sky above to the ground below here. Good for the plants, food for a mood.
Like a polychrome hen, I often sit and dwell on my documents, trying to make them perfect before releasing them. And here, suddenly, is Friday.
Well, it's not as ready as I wished, but it's starting to look ship shape.
What's New In 0.67b?
- The advancement rules for heroes are back. And a little str...
2021-04-16 04:33:12 +0000 UTC
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