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  • Ars Magica Crowdfundings

    My first professional publication for Ars Magica came out in 1993, in White Wolf Magazine. Things rather grew from there, and I spent over a decade as the Line Developer. When I retired from that position, I ended up taking a break for a few years, but now I’m back.

    First, I prepared the text for the upcoming Definitive Edition. The text is now done and is being laid out, and the crowdfunding launches in a few days.

    Second, part of the crowdfunding is the release of Ars Magica under an open license (CC BY-SA), and I have a Patreon at which I am writing for that license. The licensing has not happened yet, but I have permission from Atlas to do that. When you have been working with them on the line for years, you can do that.

    I am looking forward to writing for the game again!

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My Writing

Fiction

I have written some fiction.

Academic

I have published a few peer-reviewed academic works, on philosophy and Japanese history.

Roleplaying Games

I have written for roleplaying games.

Mimusubi

Mimusubi is my project for non-fiction writing about Shinto. It has its own website.

Recent Blog Posts

  • All By Myself

    I’m all alone at the moment. Yuriko and Mayuki have gone off to Nagoya for a week or so, so that Mayuki can spend some time with her grandparents (and vice versa). Yuriko is hoping to take advantage of baby-sitting services to get a few things done, as well. So I get left all on…

  • Mayuki’s Modelling Debut

    Mayuki’s debut work as a model has now been released. Unfortunately for most readers of this blog, it’s only available in Japan, and even here it can’t be purchased. However, you can see some of the pictures from the shoots for it; Yuriko’s friend Sonoe took them, and there are some pictures on her blog.…

  • Sudden Walking

    Yesterday evening, Mayuki suddenly decided to go walking around our living room all by herself. It’s really a bit mystifying. One moment she was playing with Yuriko, just as normal, and the next she was walking from Yuriko to me and back again, visiting other places as they took her fancy. She’s been able to…

  • New Diary Entry

    Yet another new diary entry, finally bringing my diary up to date.

  • Feminism Causes Cancer

    … was not actually the headline of an article in the current Guardian Weekly, but it was pretty much what it said. Apparently, if women do not get pregnant young and then basically stay pregnant, it greatly increases their risk of breast cancer. What this proves is that “X causes cancer” does not guarantee that…

  • Busy Lives

    I’ve not had time to get the diary caught up yet, even though there’s only one entry to go, because I’ve had to do lots of work. Yuriko has been busy as well. On Tuesday she went to the Taira Children’s Culture Centre for a talk on food for babies from one to two, which…

  • New Diary Entry

    I’ve put up another new diary entry. That means that there’s only our trip to Atami to do, and that was this month.

  • A Proper Father

    I am now a proper father. Mayuki threw up all over me today. I had a bit of a lie in this morning, and after I got up and we had breakfast, I gave Mayuki a bottle of milk while we sat on the sofa. She drank it all down at once, and then got…

  • New Diary Entry

    Yet another new diary entry, you lucky people. There may be a slight hiatus in the near future, however.

  • New Diary Entry

    I’ve added another new diary entry. Maybe I will get caught up.