Plans For The Coming Year
The Resources I Will Be Using With My Writing
I am becoming a real aficionado of solo roleplaying. I have been using solo gaming to enhance my fiction writing.
Last August, I created a series to post here on this very blog, part of August’s RPGaDay2025 event. It was the second adventure featuring Maven, a character I created using the Comae Engine ruleset from Frostbyte Books, but which I have adapted for a 2D6 space opera roleplaying game based on one which emerged back in 1977.
This year, the big story will be a new series, a spinoff of The Chaotician. There will be three notable points to make.
One, I’ll be using two protagonists from the last Chaotician story (which featured in my blog on Wordpress, The Spiral Room). I already know which two they are, so.
Two, the story will be using Principia: The Simple Approach, possibly Frostbyte Books’ Trey, and definitely The Comae Engine, for the characters, supporting characters, and antagonists.
The latest incarnation of Principia is being launched in 2026, with an entirely new kind of game engine I am looking forward to playtesting. The engine itself, just stripped down, has already arrived as a free document titled Principia: All You Need (cover featured above), available on the Lightspress website and also on DriveThruRPG. You can already download this core book and play immediately, if you have pen, paper, and five 6-sided dice to hand.
And three … this story will be a romantasy. With elements of magical realism, possible cross-contamination from other genres - but most firmly, this story is a romantasy.
I’m going to be writing each story and queuing it up in Wordpress for a release later this year. Right now, I am queuing up last August’s Maven story on The Spiral Room. This will take a few weeks off my shoulders so I can create the Chaotician story, and give me a queue of episodes to fire off at leisure, rather than spend frantic Sundays writing each episode, beating my head against the wall.
I aim for this coming year to be busy, but not frenzied hair-pulling busy.
See you in 2026.