marcus 2013

Disabled Comments

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to use Livejournal and can't get cross-posting from Dreamwidth to work any more. I don't want to delete my account because I still have a lot of photos posted here that aren't easy to find elsewhere, and because I still like to check up on what friends who didn't cross to Dreamwidth are up to occasionally.

Since I'm seeing spam on comments occasionally and probably won't post very often I've decided to disable comments on all posts. I'm continuing to post regularly on Dreamwidth, if you want to follow me there it's the same user name.

Thanks!

marcus 2013

Forgotten Futures 4 Updates

As some of you will know I've been revising my RPG setting based on Carnacki the Ghost Finder and converting it to PDFs. I've reached a point with this now where I've either fixed everything or am blind to my own errors (probably the latter), so I'm going to go public with links to everything, if you spot any problems PLEASE let me know about them. I'll be putting links to this on my site and uploading the files to other sites in a week or so once I'm sure there are no huge problems.

One thing I'm aware of is that a few illustrations that have some white space may look slightly yellow. This is actually something that's gone wrong with the current releases of Adobe Acrobat, hopefully other PDF viewers won't have a problem. You may be able to fix it by messing around with Acrobat's accessibility settings. These are free downloads as usual, but there's a Paypal tip link on my site if anyone wants to use it - please include a message saying what the money is for! This has ended up as SIX files:

The Carnacki Cylinders
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff4/FF4-Worldbook.pdf
The worldbook with some updates and minor second thoughts, lots of new art including pictures of all major characters and creatures, etc.

The Pentacle Files
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff4/FF4-Adventures.pdf
The adventures with lots of new art and some revisions, including a new adventure by Alex Stewart.

Carnacki the Ghost Finder
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff4/FF4-Carnacki.pdf
The original stories with illos from the magazine appearances of the first six stories. There's also a little chapbook I found in the British Library that is a mashup of the first four stories, plus a poem which has nothing to do with Carnacki, which Hodgson's American publishers printed in 1910 to register the copyright. It's basically a clip show of exciting bits and not incredibly coherent, but interesting if you like REALLY obscure literary curiosities. I've also put that on line as a separate file for the literary scholars:
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff4/FF4-Chapbook.pdf

The Electric Pentacle Handbook
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff4/FF4-Pentacle.pdf
A brief history of Carnacki's most iconic invention with notes on the technology, scenario ideas, some floor plans and an instruction manual which can be printed as a little booklet.

And finally, a floor plan for Carnacki's laboratory as described in The Hog - might be useful to someone.
https://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff4/FF4-Laboratory.pdf

marcus 2013

Web Site Update

Yesterday turned out to be a short outage. The transfer is now supposed to be happening on 5th-6th December and will hopefully be seamless as regards the forgottenfutures.org and forgottenfutures.co.uk names. forgottenfutures.com is with Nominet and hopefully it won't take too long to move it...

marcus 2013

Forgotten Futures Down

My web site is moving to a new server, and it looks like the move has started today. Hopefully back up in the next few days.

marcus 2013

The Struggle For Empire - A Story of the Year 2236

Forgotten Futures 12 was to have been based on The Struggle For Empire - A Story of the Year 2236 (1900), a short novel by Robert William Cole that appears to be the first example of military SF actually set in space. For a lot of reasons that never happened. I originally intended to put the book and some of the other material I'd prepared for this setting on line, but somehow never got round to it.

Recently I was reminded of this, and after 12+ years I've finally got round to finishing the PDF version of the book. I should eventually add HTML and ePub versions, and set up a page for this and some of the other material I intended to use in the RPG - but for now here's a link to the novel. If you read this and spot anything that looks like a typo please let me know!

http://forgottenfutures.co.uk/struggle/struggle.pdf

marcus 2013

It gets worse...

I now appear to be unable to post to Livejournal from my main PC - no idea why, given how many trackers etc. I was detecting the last time I was successful I now doubt that it's worth the effort. I can make it work from my laptop but I really don't want to go there if I can avoid it, endless copy and paste is a pain with a trackpad. If anything world-shatteringly important happens I shall try again, but it's already nearly three weeks since I last updated here and to be honest it's too much like hard work.

Bottom line, see me on Dreamwidth...

https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org
marcus 2013

Forgetfullness Strikes Again! More failure!

Sorry, it's been two weeks since I remembered to post links to everything that HASN'T been posted here thanks to Livejournal's continuing block of Dreamwidth crossposts. Better late than never, I suppose...

Most recent first.


Another Fantasy RPG Bundle - Encyclopaedia Arcane
Jul. 20th, 2022 06:26 pm
a HUGE bundle of D20 fantasy supplements published by Mongoose in 2001-4
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2273909.html

Another SF bundle - Ecipse Phase 2E
Jul. 18th, 2022 07:00 pm
The second edition of the Eclipse Phase RPG, a transhuman SF setting.
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2273644.html

Proving I'm a bit of a loony...
Jul. 11th, 2022 11:24 pm
Another moon photo
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2273470.html

Continuum RPG - A Million To One, They Said...
Jul. 11th, 2022 08:24 pm
The adventure I'll probably be running at Continuum next month
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2273225.html

Another Repeat Bundle - Castle Oldskull
Jul. 11th, 2022 07:10 pm
system-neutral games supplements in the Old School (e.g., dungeon-bashing etc.) style
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2272794.html

So a lot of people are on holiday...
Jul. 9th, 2022 08:08 am
3 routes to London from Heathrow by train
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2272681.html

Another SF Bundle - Fading Suns 4E
Jul. 6th, 2022 06:43 pm
The 4th (2021) edition of Fading Suns, one of the better-received far-future SF RPGs
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2272506.html
marcus 2013

Marching on to new heights of failure!

OK, cross posts from Dreamwidth still aren't working and I'm not as good as I should be about updating here, so many apologies. One thing I should have cross-posted has already ended, so I won't bother including it here, the rest are still relevant


Another Bundle - Amazing Adventures 5E
Jul. 4th, 2022 07:23 pm
A generic RPG system with an emphasis on pulp adventures based on D&D 5E rules
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2272132.html


Three GURPS Bundles (all originally posted last week):
GURPS 4th Edition
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2271262.html
GURPS 4E Fantasy
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2271539.html
GURPS 4E Space
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2271786.html
marcus 2013

More failure!

Another lot of crossposts that didn't - at least one is almost too late to be useful, for which many apologies. Most recent first.


And yet another bundle - Red Markets
Jun. 21st, 2022 07:23 pm
This is another one that's only running for a week - a zombie apocalypse game of economic horror
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2270860.html

Another bundle - Heroic Maps (19 GB of them!)
Jun. 20th, 2022 10:04 pm
Fantasy battle maps from a company called Heroic Maps
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2270474.html

Another nice moon
Jun. 18th, 2022 12:17 am
June 17th 3AM GMT, three nights after full moon. (photo)
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2270424.html

Arrr, it be a Bundle with Pirates, Me Hearties!
Jun. 15th, 2022 08:38 pm
This is another bundle, this time for the pirate RPG Sea of Thieves from Mongoose. It's only available for another eight hours or so.
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2270171.html

Stamps update
Jun. 14th, 2022 03:52 pm
Got the stamps replaced today, only eight days after posting
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2269697.html


And another bundle - Fat Goblin Planners and Guides
Jun. 13th, 2022 08:40 pm
This is a collection of planners and guides for setting up game settings
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2269596.html

Please comment on Dreamwidth, not here!
marcus 2013

Son of vague cousin of crosspost failure (again).

More crossposts that didn't.

First, a small correction from last time - the stamps I mentioned as leaving circulation can't be used after the end of next January, not April, not sure where I got the idea it was April. They can be exchanged for the new designs with bar codes into the indefinite future, Royal Mail aren't giving a deadline so far.

More failure, most recent first:

Another bundle - Pip System
Jun. 8th, 2022 08:32 pm
A new one on me, and one I don't know much about, which appears to be an attempt at an all-genres RPG
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2269412.html

Another Two Bundles - Mutant Year Zero
Jun. 6th, 2022 07:21 pm
Two bundles for the RPG Mutant Year Zero from Free League Publishing
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2268992.html

Please comment on Dreamwidth, not here - I'm considering making this journal read only since I can't always see comments.