Unrelated to all my other work, I once made an 80 page play by post wargame of dubious quality
I don't really know where else to put this but I figure if anyone would be interested it would be the tabletop RPG enjoyers, especially since Cataphract got so popular (I am in a game and I am quite enjoying it). Some time ago, before I started blogging and before I started interfacing with the lovely GLoG community, I feverishly banged out something over the course of a week more or less from first principles and an agglomerated knowledge of vague experiences as a player in tabletop games of all sorts. I tried to gather people to playtest it but it repeatedly fell through, and over time I gave up on finding feedback. The gist of it is it is meant to let players create military factions from scratch to fight each other over control for one or a handful of star systems, both in space and on the ground. Vibe is Eclipse Phase meets Warlord Era China, in the sense that you are imagined as a kind of rootless army or microstate in the cosmic scheme of things desperately scrabbling for r...