Christopher Helton
Nonbinary tabletop RPG designer, editor and aficionado of comics and music. Hire me for your projects! ENnie nominated blogger, one time ENnie winner. I used to write about tabletop gaming/pop culture at the Bleeding Cool & EN World websites. (they/them)
- SOME NEWS! I am delighted to announce my next book! Working title: A Short Handbook for Public Scholars from @hopkinspress.bsky.social and @gmbritton.bsky.social. A pragmatic guide for scholars - construed broadly as anyone at all whose writing is informed by deep learning. Expected Summer 2026.
- Congratulations!
- I would love to do a Judge Anderson/PSI Division RPG. Yeah, I could do it as something I make up for myself, but it just wouldn't be the same without Cassandra Anderson.
- A Better World is one of the best modern Dredd stories. I've recommended it a number of times since I read it. It is so good.
- Probably a toss up between "For the Man Who Has Everything" by Moore and Gibbons, and JLA #6 by Morrison and Porter. Superman wrestling an angel.
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- It is always weird to see places where I used to hang out when I lived in Cleveland end up in places like Metropolis.
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- But most of this was due to the fanbase of the "lawyer," not the publisher.
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- I received death threats and harassment after I wrote about RPGs being too cheap for too long, and it impacting living conditions and healthcare for creatives. Not to mention it making it more difficult for publishers to publish support for games.
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- I received death threats because I "did not like D&D." That one is true, but that's mostly because I'm really not a big fan of fantasy.
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- You know, I could almost understood getting into this reliance if AI output gave outstanding answers, but why when the answers are stupid? And they know it!
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- These days I would say that a lot of them are insincere.
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- Please support me as an indie game maker, so I can make more games. And support queer voices before our voices get taken away from us by the current regime in this county.
- Adventures in the Unknown (my self-published game).
- Adventures in the Unknown is my heroic pulp #TTRPG where you can punch Nazis and fight fascists in the contemporary world. This game was inspired by a well known game of busting ghosts from the early 80s, but it isn't a retroclone of it. I've gussied it up for more contemporary styles of play.
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- And you can make characters over a wide range of power levels, but the default for the game is around the levels of those Charlton characters. If you're a fan of street level supers media like Daredevil, Arrow or Jessica Jones, this is the game for you!
- These characters existed in a zone somewhere between pulp heroes and comic book super-heroes. You had characters like Peacemaker, The Question and Blue Beetle who had no powers, but still fought to make their world a better place, and heroes like Captain Atom, who were incredibly powerful.
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- I'll send you a link to my discord, if you're interested.
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- If American media wasn't so terrible, I would say something about it but we've got no place to cast stones about shitty media.
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- I don't know if this is better.
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- I love that book.
- artists and writers should be co creators on more projects
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- Oh, I know. I spend most of my free time (when I'm not writing) trying to sell myself.
- i just think like. by default we have this arrangement where, assuming there isnt a parent company, writers are bosses and artists are employees and I struggle to see why that's a good system when art materials usually define the 1st impression cultural identity of a work of fiction
- I would love to have the situation where an artist presents me with a variety of art, and I can build a game around it, and we can build the world for it together. Sadly in this current world, none of us would probably make any money. :/
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- I have one of Bartell's old ghost cat shirts.
- Hey, there's going to be a couple of events of mine in this!
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- Wow. And an introduction by Fellini.
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- My mom has some dietary restrictions from conditions she has, and some of these people's posts have helped me to find alternatives to meet her needs. The amount of bogus nonsense they have to refute is tiring.
- There's a couple of, for lack of a better term, nutrition influencers I follow, mostly for tips on meal planning and general nutrition, and they have spent years debunking the food-related nonsense that these "wellness" grifters push. It is so incredibly dangerous what these people push.
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- Love Me For Who I Am is so good.
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- Thanks, Khairul!
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- Oh my goodness. This is like being transported back to my younger years. But with Phoebe Bridgers along for the ride.
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- Yeah, it's funny because there's all these things said about DCC like "It's OSR" or "Its an heir to AD&D," and honestly its just the core of 3E with a few new things attached to it and a bunch of dice that no one used the first time around. It is a weird nostalgia.
- Maybe it's because I never played the original setting, but why not just make something new and exciting that's a fantasy city setting rather than than rewarding the Bledsaws? And making all of this go away is rewarding the Bledsaws. Nostalgia is a bitch.
- Not to turn this site into LinkedIn Jr or anything, but I am actively hunting for a full time day job to keep me afloat while I make comics, so if you happen to know of anything, drop me a message. Hiring me to make more comics helps, too. And my little kids custom drawings. Every bit helps.
- Misfits of Magic was a really fun read. I got it through my library and had a blast reading it.
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- Hurting my soul? That seems kind of personal for Hickman. His SHIELD stuff was kind of close to X-Files. It just would be a very different vibe from the original.
- The NY Times honors the passing of comics innovator Jack Katz, who passed away a few weeks ago. If he didn't create the graphic novel format, he was one of the earliest to utilize it.
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- I think if I'd read them as a kid I would have had a better appreciation for Aparo back then.
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- wut? I mean, I'd love to get reprints of the old Topps X-Files comics, but that's about it.
