What? Who?
I’m Malcolm Sheppard. I write. I design games. I’ve been doing it in a goes-on-the-resume sense for something over a decade. You probably got here looking for something about games, or writing, or something I jotted down about Doctor Who that made Reddit ages ago.
Nowadays I write about whatever pleases me. Or doesn’t.
My self-hosted blog is kind of in limbo right now due to a plugin-related catastrophe, so I’ll be hanging out here until I figure out where to go next.
New posts are on the side, by the way.
Hello, I am a fan of your Mage work, including your Mage (The Dirty Version) and a few of your houserules that you’ve mentioned for Mage: the Ascension. I would like to know more, as I have ideas of my own for my “rules-fix”, and would like to get advice form an expert. (Or at least someone who is more of an expert than I am, which qualifies many, many people for the job.)
Go ahead and shoot. I’ll probably set up my reply and a general discussion on another page, though.
Are you going to repost your comments about Imperial Mysteries? I thought your description of the Aswadim’s motivations were very interesting.
Unfortunately, they’re locked up in the archives for the old blog, which are in a form (WordPress php tables) I can’t unscramble. But if you ask me a question on the White Wolf forums or SomethingAwful, I can answer there. Thanks!
Mr Sheppard, is there any way to make Mage: the Dirty Version available again?
Kind regards
Neil
Hi Neil,
Unfortunately, all my old articles are stuck in a backup from my old self-hosted blog, which irrevocably crashed. I have not yet been able to find the person or tools to take care of it.
That is terrible news! Good luck with getting it sorted. Have to admit to being a little devastated!
KR
Neil
I’m pretty sure I have a bunch of the Mage: Dirty Version posts saved in a Word doc somewhere, if that’s a help at all…
If you send it, I’ll post it with acknowledgments, probably as a PDF. Been working a lot, sorry I didn’t reply sooner!
The Mage: The Dirty version posts were cross-posted to the livejournal blog.
Hope you manage to find someone who knows how to code WordPress databases.
I have yet to find a way to convert what I have to wxr.
Can you create a wxr file? Or someone could gover your database tables and reconstruct.