Alex Keane

Lover of Fiction and Games

    Tag: urban fantasy

    • Caretakers, A Fate Game in Progress

      This week, I’ve been doing some writing on the paranormal social workers game that I’ve been working on for a few years actually. This project has gone through phases in Savage Worlds Deluxe, Savage Worlds Adventure Edition, Cortex Prime, and now I’ve settled in with Fate Condensed. This week I actually finally replaced the placeholder…

    • Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

      Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

      This was not my first time reading Three Parts Dead. In fact, I pre-ordered it when it first came out and read it then. Max Gladstone just released the second book of a sequel series to the original Craft Sequence books and in getting ready to read the Craft Wars books, I decided to go…

    • Lore24 Week 3 Recap

      Lore24 Week 3 Recap

      This week I’ve continued writing about my Supernatural Social Workers setting on my Mastodon Profile. I’ve started focusing less on facts of the setting and more on creating some of the characters and organizations that exist in the setting. Like last week, I’m going to make the recap more interesting by adding photos from an…

    • Lore24 Week 2 Recap

      Lore24 Week 2 Recap

      I’ve been continuing my participation in Lore24 this week, though I pivoted from writing about the setting of Denisete I used for a Pathfinder Second Edition Game to a discussion of the fictional town of Bookerfield, Ohio, which I plan to use as a setting for my Supernatural Social Workers game I’m writing. You can…

    • Monster of the Week by Generic Games

      Monster of the Week by Generic Games

      I realized this week that I’ve never written anything here about one of my favorite RPGs that I’ve played in the last couple years. Monster of the Week is a game which tries to emulate the tropes you would see in a “Monster of the Week” show like The X-Files or Buffy the Vampire Slayer…

    • Demotivational poster with image of thousdands of dice reading: Shadowrun, where else are you going to use three pounds of 6-siders

      My Experiences as Designated GM, Part 2: Shadowrun

      This is a continuation from an earlier post about my experiences GMing. My move to Michigan coincided with a bit of a break from the GM’s seat. Even though I found my Michigan group within a couple weeks of my move, the group had a DM for the weekly D&D and Pathfinder games. So for…

    • Abandoned Hospital

      Paranormal Social Workers Project

      Last month, I wrote a blog post where I talked about a game I was hacking Cortex Prime for. The concept is that the players are a group of social workers to paranormal entities. Making my own urban fantasy RPG to play with my friends has been a thought for a while, because games like…

    • Liar City by Allie Therin

      Liar City by Allie Therin

      Note: I Received A Free Reviewer Copy Through NetGalley I recently finished Liar City by Allie Therin. It’s due out on February 28, 2023. The premise of Liar City is that there is a group of people who can psychically read others’ emotions through touch, called Empaths. The main characters are an Empath named Reece…