Mailanka's Musings

  Mavrick pointed out on the Discord that Psi-Wars armor seems a bit heavy for its description, and asked why this was. Generally speaking, ...

 As usual, I've neglected the blog in favor of the wiki and the discord, as I tend to get a lot of immediate feedback on the discord (pl...

 So, I paused my grand Umbral Rim rollout to write up some basic corporations, because I've noticed people sometimes ask questions about...

 I've been hard at work on the Umbral Rim and the organizations, technology and monsters native there. I've finally worked out detai...

 It's a new year, so time for a new retrospective! Oh, and yes, I did get my Wordpress Blog unsuspended.  I'm debating whether it...

My, I posted a lot less in December than I thought!  Most of my attention has been on the wiki, and I wanted to finish up the basic alien te...

I'm pretty sure I've banged on about this before, but I've made an effort to include more alien races in Psi-Wars (there will be...

 No, this isn't about a race called "the Rejects." I came up with a bunch of races that didn't make the cut because I coul...

Rumors and whispers had long swirled through the colonist population of Arcadius that the world was inhabited. Finally, when Sovereign fell,...

  Few humans have even heard of the Vithani, and fewer still have laid eyes upon a Vithani slave, much less enjoyed their company. The bruta...

  The Karkadann are among the oldest aliens known among the Arkhaian reaches, and for a time, were considered by archaeologists to be a cand...

...(A race) which has culture and “common advantages/disadvantages” and maybe unique technology…but without having a template at all. That w...

  It's not all been Fun and Space Bestiaries at Mailanka's Musings; I still have a wiki to run, after all, and promises to fulfill t...

 So, last months poll for the new Poll-Driven setting element, the Phoenix Cluster, is finished. All Backers can read the results here: Subs...

  Sometimes, I just can't get something out of my head.  Back in the good ol' days of the blog, it would end up as a blog series.  L...

 I mentioned blog discipline recently, and what I mostly meant was not discussing what I'm actually doing.  Some of it is because it...

  Are there plans to add parts of the Galactic Fringe to the Atlas, or otherwise add areas of Westerly influence to the setting? I know to s...

 So, I finished the third session of Undercity Noir a week early, as one of the players couldn't make it on the normal day.  We finally ...

It's been a rough month for my health, and Undercity Noir has dominated my attention, but my blog discipline has been slipping.  My apol...