About

Obviously, this blog is about RPGs. This blog will have discussions about systems and GMing. I'll likely share some of the mook-stat blocks that I have used in my games, races for settings that I've made, ideas on how things may shape settings, how settings shape campaigns, etc. -- basic GM-blog fare. My post-frequency varies from every two or three says to once a week, to once a month when life beats me down with crap to take care of or I become thoroughly boring and uninspired. The genre of the material will vary. I enjoy both science fiction (space opera, hard scifi (both conservative and radical)) and fantasy. A fun and interesting (but exhausting) genre is the fusion of fantasy and scifi. 

I have played a number of different games, including Shadowrun 5e, oWoD Vampire the Masquerade, D&D 4e (once). I have run Pathfinder and GURPS. I don't particularly enjoy running Pathfinder anymore since it can too easily become too much of a crunchy war-game catered to rules-lawyers and power-gamers, but I'm not turning my nose up at it -- I still play it occasionally. I have runmore GURPS games than anything else at this point. I have been preparing various GURPS games, ranging from a TL 9 radical hard scifi game based, roughly, on a combination of The Expanse and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy to Spelljammer or Dark Sun adaptations. I have also been investigating several other systems, including Stu Venable's Moment of Truth RPG, Basic RolePlaying, Burning Wheel, and the various incarnations of Traveller, but primarily the Cepheus Engine (CE). I am also seriously infatuated with the OSR and 'DIY D&D'.

I have a tumblr that served the same function. I've decided to switch most of my content over to Blogger, though. It is the Lumaras Chronicle. It's named after the world I first created for a Pathfinder campaign. I still run games in that world, though they're in GURPS now. This blog will be about my thoughts and resources on RPGs and the Lumaras Chronicle will serve for the the odd tiny posts as befits tumblr.

Finally, I feel I should explain what "Provinto" is. It's an alias I've been using for a year or two. Well, that was quick. It's esperanto and means "one who has tried." Sound bleak? Well, what can I say? At least I tried.