Vestige: The Story Begins When You Start Playing
The design philosophy behind Vestige: a science-fiction setting built to generate play, preserve mystery, and let tabletop campaigns create history.
Year
2026
Vestige Vanguard: Tau Models
Stripping, repainting, repairing, and unifying second-hand and older Tau models with metallic blue armour, blue skin, and red shoulder markings.
Vestige
An introduction to Vestige, the shared science-fiction setting behind my solo campaigns, miniature projects, and tabletop experiments.
Hardening a Fresh Ubuntu VPS After Provisioning It with OpenTofu
A practical follow-up to the OpenTofu VPS setup, covering the first OS checks, updates, nftables, and a small maintenance baseline.
Setting up an AWS VPS with OpenTofu
A repeatable AWS EC2 setup with OpenTofu, a dedicated VPC, restricted SSH access, encrypted storage, and a stable public IP.
Settling on Five Parsecs and Five Leagues
Why I am using Five Parsecs from Home for science-fiction gaming and Five Leagues from the Borderlands for fantasy, starting with a small Bug Hunt force.
A World Left Behind: My Bug Hunt Campaign Frame
The campaign frame for my first Five Parsecs: Bug Hunt games, built around a silent colony, recon exosuits, native creatures, and a deeper mystery.
One Hero Engine
One Hero Engine v0.20 is the current coherent playtest edition: a roll-under solo fantasy RPG for one capable protagonist.
One Hero Engine: Changelog
Version notes for One Hero Engine, including the v0.20 playtest edition and the archived v0.12 draft.
One Hero Engine: Quick Reference
A compact rules reference for One Hero Engine v0.20.
One Hero Engine: Advancement
Milestones, level gains, HP growth, MP growth, and capstones for One Hero Engine v0.20.
One Hero Engine: Enemies
Enemy ranks, minion rules, encounter scale, and reusable sample foes for One Hero Engine v0.20.
One Hero Engine: Magic
MP, casting, sustained spells, and the tested v0.20 core spell list.
One Hero Engine: Classes and Paths
The tested core classes and paths for One Hero Engine v0.20.
One Hero Engine: Ancestries
Tested core ancestries for One Hero Engine v0.20, with legacy concepts separated clearly.