I’m iendjinn and you’ve stumbled onto my website, welcome!
Who am I?
A human from Sol III, I’m interested in science fiction, tabletop role playing games and “keep fit”. I also enjoy good coffee and home made pizza.
Why does this site exist?
As a place for me to publish and collate my thoughts and projects that I’d like to share with people.
Why not just use <insert popular web platform here>?
Most blogging and social media platforms are designed to harvest your data to sell you more stuff, or publish and store content in a weird proprietary format.
While writing stuff in markdown and transforming it to HTML is a little clunky, it means that this content is independent of the platform it is hosted on. It also means I can deliver this content free from unnecessary cookies, JavaScript and other cruft that are the hallmarks of many modern websites.
I was very fortunate to have been introduced to tabletop role playing games by “based Cullen”, a fantastic GM who ran a home brew campaign for our group set in the world of Oceanus. Featuring giant turtle ships, ancient underwater domes filled with magitech, and piracy on the high seas, this campaign got me hooked.
Since then I’ve continued to run TRPGs for my friends in a variety of settings and systems, some home brew and some official systems. Below you can find links to some of my projects, musings on TRPGs, and reviews of game systems I’ve run.
alien rpgs review
Chariot of the Gods is the introductory scenario for Free League’s Alien RPG, it comes as part of the starter set and is a relatively lengthy cinematic scenario that casts the crew in a similar situation to the crew of the Nostromo in the original Alien film. I’ve run this scenario for two different groups and have a few thoughts about what I think it does right and what I think could be improved.
tech
As with all digital services spotify has begun to suffer from enshitification. Outside of price hikes this has come in the form of advertising even on premium plans. Now this isn’t product advertising for other companies, this is spotify pushing notifications about new podcasts that I have expressed no interest in down my throat. This upset me enough to cancel because:
borg rpgs review
Building on the massive success of Mork Borg, Stockholm Kartel released Cy_Borg: A digital neon view of a dystopian hellscape where the world itself is on the brink of apocalypse.
alien rpgs review
Destroyer of Worlds is the second cinematic scenario for the Alien RPG, published by Free League. It’s a three act romp across a war torn moon, with the players taking on the roles of colonial marines thrown into a maelstrom of insurgency, bioweapon development and planetary invasion.
mothership rpgs review
The Haunting of Ypsilon-14 is a tri-fold pamphlet adventure for the Mothership RPG. Set on a mining station, the players are visiting the station when people start disappearing. In classic mothership style they then have to survive, solve or save in the ensuing chaos.