So with the mass social media migrations that have been happening lately, I started looking for other avenues. So far I’m liking Mastodon, a lot more than I ever liked Twitter actually, but I realized that I often have thoughts about TTRPGs, worldbuilding and game design that are a bit too much for social media character limits. I had joked about starting up a blog like I was back in the early 2000s again, but the more I thought about it the more it sounded like… well I don’t know if a good idea is the right term, but at least a fun experiment.

So what is Vesta Point Press, and what is this place? To start, it’s the “brand” that I’ve created for my experiments with publishing for tabletop roleplaying games. I’ve loved creating things since I was very young, but I’ve never liked the idea of publishing under my own name so I always created aliases for my different projects, so when I made a small 5-page splatbook for the Traveller RPG I had to come up with some kind of brand to publish under.

I pulled the name from a location in a city I built for one of my Traveller games, and I think doing a deep dive into that city and the rest of my Traveller setting is going to be one of the things I want to do here. As a worldbuilder I focus on the broad strokes and worry about the finer details later when it becomes relevant for my players, so I end up with many ideas that never actually made it into any of my notes so doing “Tourist Guide” style write ups here might be a good excuse to fill in a lot of those blanks.

I plan on making this place more or less a dumping grounds for any of my TTRPG and TTRPG adjacent thoughts and ramblings that don’t fit anywhere else, but it likely won’t be a regular thing for now. In the meantime, I use Mastodon regularly over at @vestapointpress@dice.camp if you want to see some of the kinds of thoughts I’ll be posting here