Podcast: Yellow Dawn The Age of Hastur – RPG – Episode 2

Tooling up and heading out So, Dirk and Eddie have signed up to the City Recovery Corps (CRC) and are about to head out into the infected wilderness. Are they prepared for what they will find out there? . YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY THESE: RPG Virgin Loses Cherry in the World of Yellow Dawn Role-playing: [...]

Map of the Dead: Zombie Survival Map – excellent resource for post-apocalyptic world of Yellow Dawn RPG

Post-apocalyptic resources Click on the image of the map to go to Map of the Dead website. Developed by Jeff at Doejo (we fuel ideas that grow). Find places near you that are likely to have resources to help you survive the zombie apocalypse. Or places to avoid. What I personally like about this is [...]

When the future imitates the past. Dog Eat Dog steps into context.

Arizona USA Back in 2010 a school teacher in Arizona was giving a lesson on the Medieval European Crusades into the Middle East.  On the back of this he decided to see what it would be like to recreate the experience of yomping through a sun-blasted desert, carrying armour and kit of the period.   It [...]

Podcast: Yellow Dawn The Age of Hastur – RPG – Episode 1

Tackling the Cthulhu Mythos in a post-apocalyptic world Soooo rather scarily, the secondary Yellow Dawn RPG group I’m acting GM for decided to create podcasts of the sessions. One player has never touched an RPG before; the other has some experience but is brand new and fresh-faced to the world of Yellow Dawn.  So you [...]

WiP: a slower pace – nanomech simmering

Work in progress I’ve been taking a more social stance past couple of weeks. Orient Express. A long weekend in London. Slower progress on creative projects but that is no bad thing. Means I’ve been seeing a lot of my friends. Meanwhile, the Nanomech system simmers on in a positive way; nearly finished, I just [...]

Just found great response to Yellow Dawn The Age of Hastur from World Wide Gamers

Sharing positive words This is a comment made by Kevin O’Neill on a post about Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur within World Wide Gamers website.  Ironically, the point being put forward in the comment is equally valid for this post: with so much information out there it can be hard to filter and [...]

Video Animation ¦ Ruin – a post apocalyptic short

A little under 10 minutes this is a wonderfully atmospheric cyberpunk post-apocalyptic short that plugs straight into your adrenal gland.  Definitely make sure you’ve got big sound, full screen and a do-not-disturb holo hovering above your skull. There’s a fantastic absence of dialogue, adding to the enigma of the story’s background: what is the character [...]

Hayling Island Horror – a boys weekend away

So my weekend starts now. Had a mate arrive from Spain last night, one of the original RPG crew. Picking up a big hire car (tank) this morning and driving a whole bunch of Yellow Dawn players down to Hayling Island to spend the weekend in a house by the sea. House belongs to my [...]

Cyberpunk art ¦ future fashion or post-apocalyptic decadence – photography by Danil Golovkin

Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. Danil Golovkin is a Russian fashion photographer who has a spectacular eye for [...]

Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur continues with Horror on the Orient Express today…

Geeks incorporated. So this is part of the original Yellow Dawn RPG test crew, plus guest (Kelvin Wright) on the far left. They’re all coming over here later today to play Yellow Dawn and continue the epic campaign Horror On The Orient Express, that I’ve converted to work in a post-apocalyptic setting – complete with [...]

Top 10 blog posts of 2011 from Sci-fi, Fantasy, Cyberpunk and Cthulhu Mythos Horror

I’ve been running this blog for about 18 months now and it’s already eclipsed the “old thing” I used to run since the late 1990s.  It’s a great counterpoint to the daily grind of crafting novels and RPG systems – where often there is very little to show for weeks at a time; a place [...]

A free science fiction & dark fantasy short story for every subscriber: giving you reasons to like this wordpress blog

It’s simple. Take a peek at the Subscribe option top left.  If you already use WordPress just click “sign me up” otherwise, bang in your email address and you’re done :o) You’ll be the first to recieve previews of new material, get an insight into the world of writing this particular flavour of Science Fiction [...]

Cover of Dog Eat Dog, a sci-fi and dark fantasy novel set in the post-apocalyptic world of Yellow Dawn gets used in a French textbook

Quite flattering to get approached by the French publisher Didier, who are planning to release an English language textbook called “Password Terminale” in April 2012.   They’re going to reproduce the cover of my novel Dog Eat Dog in a chapter entitled “Tech-less world”.  The novel is a political crime thriller (science-fiction and dark fantasy) [...]

Sneak Preview Yellow Dawn 2.5 – The Quantisphere, a definition

I’ve been working on the overhaul of the current version of Yellow Dawn (2.1) for over 8 months now. Here’s a chunk of text that’s going to be bolted into the start of the chapter on Occult & Mythos, it’s a narrative overview that gives you a picture of the Quantisphere.  The Quantisphere is a [...]

Oakfield ¦ the planned next novel by Cthulhu Mythos horror author David J Rodger

Oakfield ¦ the planned next novel by science fiction & dark fantasy author David J Rodger – where crustaceous horrors The Mi-go will terrorise a small Cornish township I’m currently deep into an 8 month overhaul of  Yellow Dawn  – The Age of Hastur, with a view to launching an updated version (2.5) early in [...]

Yellow Dawn ¦ seed idea for possible expansion with robots and cyborgs

This is just a brain dump for some ideas I’ve been having today, as I’m working through the overhaul of Yellow Dawn.  The RPG system already contains rules for robots and cyborgs, although I need to add a little more narrative background to the “risks of Dragon Breath AI” taking control of unsecured robots. These [...]

Electro Origins: M.E. by Gary Numan, music for a post-apocalyptic generation

Electro Origins: M.E. by Gary Numan, music for a post-apocalyptic generation This track came onto my MP3 player via random yesterday. I’d just parked up in a lonely and remote car port on the edge of this ancient Roman spa town, Bath – a cold morning with mist hanging in the air like veils of [...]

Letters ¦ Fan feedback on Dog Eat Dog: Your Stupid Book…

Letters ¦ Fan feedback on Dog Eat Dog: Your Stupid Book… This is an email I received from a fan who had bought the post-apocalyptic sci-fi & dark fantasy novel, Dog Eat Dog. {} From: Hågen Landsem [mailto:dog@k9design.co.uk] To: David Rodger Subject: Your stupid book… Is keeping me up all night reading! Must say how [...]

Photography: post-apocalyptic & dark fantasy art – The Survivor, by Danielle Tunstall

Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carb0-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. I like this image because of the absolute essence of the untold story.  [...]

WiP: Good progress with chapter on The World of Yellow Dawn

Good progress with chapter “The World of Yellow Dawn”. Fleshed out narrative sections for Living City, Rural Support Zone and Wilderness; much improved from 2.1.  There’s definately a new flavour of Wilderness emerging, different from the original concept proposed in version 2.1.  It’s great being able to convey this world with so much clarity now [...]