Archive for June, 2010

Fever Dreams – Entertainment Built on Pyres

Today I’m happy to announce the launch of Fever Dreams, the new game publishing arm of Pyres of Vam. Nobody here at the Pyres is a professional game designer, and we like making up fluff more than crunch. Nevertheless, we’ve got some ideas and thanks to the miracle of the Intertubes, we can publish stuff for free!

We’ve already announced our first product: ZILLA!

You’ll notice our shiny new Fever Dreams logo on the right there. It’ll sit happily in our sidebar from now on. You can click it to get to our games and other offerings. We won’t be churning out games, but from time to time something new will pop up.

Enjoy, and catch the fever!

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ZILLA! – My Free RPG Day Offering

It’s Free RPG Day and I’ve got something special for you to sink your teeth into. I present my first roleplaying game: ZILLA!. You’re a giant zilla on a city-smashing rampage. Zillas are powerful and hard to kill, but they are prone to becoming enamoured with humans. Will you fight another zilla, escape the city to a better place, smash the city to the ground, or even… find love?

On Stagnation, Variety and Square Pegs

It was a good friend of mine who once said “Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation … even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind”. Another man said that “Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor”. There is also the one about square pegs and round holes.

It is with these thoughts in mind that I ask you, humans, why do you stagnate so?

VERV

VERV was not always the solar system-uniting virtual reality device that it is today, able to connect users on distant worlds and give a better life to users on worlds where terraforming did not take hold. VERV has come a long way since its humble beginnings as the Virtual Engineering Rig (VER). It was developed to allow engineers to construct virtual models of buildings, ships, weapons and so on and then perform stress tests and other evaluations of the models under realistic conditions.

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WHAT YOU'VE GOTTEN YOURSELF INTO

Pyres of Vam is run by Mockingbard and his alter-ego(maniac) Vam. It focuses on tabletop roleplaying but you'll find other things here too.

Mockingbard loves roleplaying, worldbuilding and stories. He posts setting ideas, session recaps, gamemastery tips and the like for fun, for himself and to get his creativity on.

Vam posts from the villain's point of view: debunking monster myths, providing adventure ideas for villains, and helping fellow villains and dastardly GMs deck out their lairs and complicate the lives of filthy adventurers.

We write this stuff because we like it :) Hopefully you'll find something you like here too.