Deciphering the Instagrammaton

 I've recently rolled out a new Instagram account for Abhorrent Vacuum Games!

Huzzah!

I'll use the account to do some basic promotion of my publications, as well as periodically sharing pics of my RPG print collection and dice sets.

Ooo, marketing adverts, book covers, and polyhedral still lifes -- that sounds like the kind of excitement you'll definitely want to be a part of! I can hear you clicking on the "follow" button even now...

Abhorrent Vacuum Games on Instagram

Faint Pulse -- Yet Signs of Life

No, wait -- don't go! Your initial assumption that I'd abandoned this blog for dead was hasty and incorrect!

I'm still here. OK, yeah, there was a hiatus, a stepped away for a bit. In my defense, the world seems to have no shortage of existential threats to share, so...

OK, so, with that said -- I wanted to share a little list of updates and to-do items that lie ahead for me. Each of these will likely have a post that elaborates on the details. 

• Last September, I released my first, official RPG publication -- a third-party scenario for the Mothership RPG!
• Next on my writing agenda is to rewrite an adventure I recently penned, playtest it a second time, and then lay it out and publish it.
• After that, I want to draft and playtest a rules-lite cyberpunk hack.
• Somewhere amid all of the above, I aim to launch an Instagram account for my game publishing brand, Abhorrent Vaccuum Games -- or maybe adapt my personal account to somehow do double-duty? We'll see what works out. 

Anyway, here goes a new attempt at keeping things active here. Fingers crossed, more to come!

Many Resuscitations of the New Year!

After a long time away, I've returned to this blog, determined to reinvest myself in it and to share more content. It's kind of like a resolution for 2021. I have three formal resolutions, so I think this one really counts more as an "ancillary goal" than a true resolution. 

Still, it's the thought that counts. And I intend to do a lot of thinking about RPGs -- and then sharing of that thinking in this arena.

Buckle in, finish your drink, and prepare yourself psychologically. A new year awaits us.

Lone Car on Side of Highway; Red Flag Fluttering From Side Window

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

You know, when you start a new blog, probably one of the last things you want to do is write a few posts within a short span of time and then go completely radio-silent for months on end. So when I started up this blog and wrote some posts right away, I should have anticipated that something would come along to disrupt my momentum. And so it did.

As it happens, this semester has been far more involved than I'd anticipated, and I've had much less downtime than I normally do. This isn't to say I'm complaining -- at least not exactly. Several things have gone pretty well, so it's not as though there's been a big setback or anything. But, still, less free time means fewer of these blog posts. I wanted to write this short post to lay out my plan for future posts, as I'm hoping that I'll soon have at least a little more time and can keep up with my intended schedule for new posts.

Embarking

Testing...testing...

[tap tap tap]

So, with as minimal fanfare as possible, I launch this new blog. Perhaps if I kick it off with a whimper, rather than a bang, I'll actually post to it. I guess we'll see.

Abhorrent Vacuum is my new blog focused mainly on tabletop role-playing games and gaming in general. So swing back around once in a while to see what I have to say. Perhaps even reply and start up a dialogue. Fill the vacuum with something.