Patreon and On
This site has been lying fallow for a while, but I’ve started a new trick to motivate myself to do writing that isn’t work: the faint promise of cash. Yes, I’ve started a Patreon. You can find it at https://www.patreon.com/mobunited
Author: malcolmsheppard
The Dark Side of Capital: Economics, Ideology and Palpatine’s Empire
Popular history casts the Fourth Sith Empire as a 30-year historical aberration triggered by Sheev Palpatine’s conspiracy to undermine Ruusanian Republic institutions. The following analysis is an antidote to that perspective. While Palpatine remains a pivotal figure, his actions were shaped by the political, economic and cultural forces of the Late Ruusanian Republic, which continued […]
Working for Green Ronin and Other News
So, some good news. I now have a regular gig with Green Ronin Publishing. I’m excited to take up a bunch of projects with the company as a developer “at large,” meaning I work on a variety of stuff instead of just one line. You can read the message announcing it, and where the company […]
Deep Space Nine, Season Nine (and Eight)
Let’s do Deep Space Nine again. Okay, context. The first thing you need to know is Canadian Netflix is pretty bad, and we didn’t get on demand access to Deep Space Nine for years. Our SF/fantasy/interminable reality show channel Space started playing Voyager instead. Finally, Netflix got DS9 last year. My friends and I all […]
A New Year Awaits You in the Off-World Colonies
If you’re from Southern Ontario and you didn’t go to the better parties of the 90s, you rang in the new year with rain and androids. You watched Blade Runner at 12:05, after the countdown at Nathan Phillips Square (went in person one year, needed to pee all the time, was body checked by a […]
Exploding Superweapon
Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary is soaring through six figures of views. I never expected this. In seventeen years of writing, this is the most widely-read thing I’ve ever produced. I guess I should use it to my advantage, so know this: I don’t have a regular job, I’m living off dwindling savings, and could […]
Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary
Leia Organa, the politician and revolutionary who led the defeat of the Galactic Empire, died after a short illness. She was 60 years old. Hers was a life laced with controversy concerning everything from her tactics to her very ancestry, but her intelligence, commitment to the Republican cause, and place at the heart of the […]
Unannounced Absence! And Recent Stuff
Sorry about that. Here’s what’s been going on. I was sick as a dog for almost two weeks. Normally this doesn’t interfere with writing much, but in this case it was happening as two deadlines hit, for a Vampire: The Dark Ages 20th Anniversary project, and for Howard Ingham’s Chariot. So I was either doing […]
Enoch-ographics and Logistics: The Sequel!
Wow. I didn’t think a post about the demographics and logistics of Vampire’s Enoch would be a big hit, but it got a lot of views, and people asked a lot of questions. So here are the answers. What About Vitreous Necromancy? Some of you pointed out that the Nagajara’s Vitreous Path of Necromancy can […]
Enoch’s Logistics, Realism and Stories
I don’t even know why I wrote this in a forum discussion in the first place, but I spent a lot of time on it and dammit, I’m going to get some blog content out of it. So in the V20 Black Hand book, people have asked how it’s possible to support dozens of vampires […]
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