Category: Emerald Specter

Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction series of all time. Some people qualify that by adding “television” to that statement but it doesn’t need to be there. No other science fiction has been active longer than Doctor Who (active throughout its entire existence). Star Trek is 3 years younger. Twilight Zone had a […]

Chess is a game that has existed for somewhere around 500 years. In all that time, the players who play the game have gone from really good to inhumanly great. Unlike other things that have existed that long, chess seems to be the one thing no one seems can turn into a spectacle. Though I’ve […]

Welcome back! If you haven’t read part 1, go there and start there because the rules and what is happening is all there. This time I draft the supervillains to populate this new universe! Since I’ve already used my team choice, it’s all individuals, too! Let’s get to it. SELECTION #1: Ursa of Krypton Not […]

Have you ever sat back and looked at the Marvel, DC, Image, Valiant, or other universe and thought “that hero or villain belongs in this other universe?” I’ve said that about a number of heroes and villains from a number of different universes and have even gone as far as creating my own universe with […]

In 1982, Disney released a science fiction movie not about aliens invading Earth or about humans going into space but about humans going into a computer world and seeing what that experience would be like. When Tron came to theaters, it was considered a financial failure by Disney and part of the budget was written […]

In 1994, I was introduced to Vampire the Masquerade (2nd Edition) and loved the game. The group that I played with played weekly, then multiple times per week, then almost nightly for 3 solid years before slowly that pace down until I left the Navy. After leaving the Navy, I ran only Vampire games from […]

Were you aware that we have an RPG Discord Server? If you’re interested in playing role playing games, running them, just click that link and you’ll be joining a group of folks who are also interested in the same things! We’ve got at least a couple of games running every week but we could have […]

If you are reading this, then you are probably aware of the mismanagement of the Dungeons and Dragons brand by Wizards of the Coast (and by extension, Hasbro). There isn’t going to be a lot of going over what happened but I do need to set the stage for this article by stating that everything […]

Welcome to 2025. This very moment is January 1, 2025 and I have waited to reveal something until this moment. Why? Well, nothing says “this is a great place to start” than literally the first day of the year… of literally any year at all. I am officially launching the SpecterVerse. The SpecterVerse is a […]

You may look at the title and think that the topic isn’t worth reading about. Then again, you may be completely into the topic and want to read something worth your time. There will be something worth reading and something that I’ve been working on in the background, so read on and learn about what […]

Most competitions, sports or games, eventually gain a level of grandeur after a length of time that puts them into a larger arena than when they began. Sometimes that takes a few years and sometimes that takes far more than just a few years. In the special case of chess, there are other factors holding […]

This website has been completely restarted due to a server issue and I did choose at that point to let quite a bit of the old stuff just… well… go away. So, anyone new to this site wouldn’t be aware that I’ve done little “digital sports” leagues on this website in the past. That’s what […]