Hi. My name is Greg Stolze, this is my web page, and I write books.

Playborg Photographer

Courtesy of your generous interest, I have successfully released two short stories for my internet library. Now I hope to fund a third one. Playborg Photographer is an ambitious piece, a science-fiction satire touching on memory, the cult of entertainment culture, corporate influence on politics and, of course, men’s magazines. This being SF, the definition of men is so loose that it loses most of its meaning. If it helps, the story is based on a game I wrote ...in Spaaace!

A Reasonable Set of Links

At some point I will redo this web site, but for the time being here’s the duct-tape fix: Links here in the body text to things that really ought to be buttons up top.

The ongoing saga of a dragon who is too beautiful for the world he lives in, if you ask him.

The REIGN Home Page.

Teasers for eCollapse.

Me on Twitter.

...and on Facebook.

eCollapse

eCollapse is now available, and if you know what that means I hope it excites you. If you are not yet familiar with eCollapse, let me enlighten you.

Set in a bleak near-future of government paralysis, ecological disaster and financial failure, eCollapse focuses on the few who light a candle and curse the darkness. Few, proud and caped, these ideological extremists are hounded by the police for their illegal biological implants, but wanted signs are only one of the barriers they face. Between rampant violence, crumbling civilization and their own allies-in-illegal-crimefighting, the heroes of the future have it rough and like it that way.

So do the villains.

In fact, it can be hard to tell them apart.

eCollapse is a fully statted gritty future supplement for Wild Talents (one of many fine products from ARC DREAM publishing). It also has its own dedicated mechanics, The Smear of Destiny. Whether you run it with its free-standing rules, with Wild Talents or with another RPG entirely, it is designed to focus on the questions of heroism and villainy. eCollapse periodically reassigns the roles of hero and villain (alongside a few others) among the players. These roles provide bonuses and penalties when players go along or resist their predestined actions. If your character is a hero with a villainous destiny, how long can you resist the temptation of unbridled cruelty? If you find yourself cursing the restrictions on the hero, what does that say about your character? Only one way to find out.

eCollapse is now available through Indie Press Revolution as a softcover book, .pdf, or as a value-priced bundle. The .pdf is also for sale at RPGNOW.

If This Is Your First Time...

In addition to the many companies that have employed me, I also self-published a few books, partially as an experiment, partially out of laziness. If lazy experimentalism sounds appealing (rather than appalling) here are some links.

Scary Face, my short story collection, is now available as a .pdf.

GODWALKER, a novel tied in to the game Unknown Armies.

These People Mean Nothing To Each Other is another distribution experiment, this one in charitable fundraising via hard-boiled fiction.

Second Year of Our REIGN

Second Year of Our REIGN is now available as a free download, compiling all sorts of fan-bought goodness. You can also download it at my LULU storefront, currently the only place it can be purchased as a print artifact. A shipment of the black and white softcovers is its way to Indie Press Revolution. The deluxe full color hardback is also available.

REIGN in PDF, Available Now

REIGN is now for sale as a .pdf, at IPR and at RPGNow. My caveat for Lulu buyers is that the file available there is extremely large and dense, since it was intended to guide a printer, not be read off a screen. The other versions are more condensed.