Welcome to the Octopus Carnival! This blog serves two purposes: hosting my English language RPG-related writing, and allowing me to learn how to use the Jekyll site generation engine.

Why Jekyll? Because Tumblr has been getting on my nerves lately. I have a Portuguese language personal blog in there, and while I was never assiduous in maintaining it recent changes in the Tumblr user interface have made me even less inclined to do so.

And why English? I’m not a native speaker, but pretty much anything RPG-related I’ve done in the past handful of years, from reading books to preparing material to playing the games, has been done in that language. It’s slightly easier for me to think about games in English at this point. Plus, I want to be featured in the GURPS Day summaries over at Gaming Ballistic!

One of the biggest inspirations for this was the excellent and extensive Psi Wars series of articles on Mailanka’s blog, which aims to create a Star Wars-like setting from the ground up. Adapting stuff from media to role playing games has always been something I’ve been very interested in, and this finally pushed me to try it publically.

As a first project, I intend to adapt some stuff from the Dragon’s Dogma video game. I think it will be relatively easy to do, and a smaller task than Psi Wars, but time will see if I’m wrong. In addition to that, I’ll post other stuff as it comes to me, like one-off characters or rules.