Hi, I'm Nicholas...
I am an author, artist, streamer, game designer, and convention host.
**Also, not a cryptid.**
Intro Video
Live Streams
You can find Nicholas Tockert on YouTube, Twitch, and Kick!
Catch Nevermind the Furthermore on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10am Eastern/9am Central at the channels below!
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Catch the Historical Fencing Guild on Friday nights at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central at the channels below!
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Books
Art & Tales Volume1
Art & Tales is collection of 25 images and stories born from simple prompts that inspire journey into worlds both fantastic and bizarre. Designed to rapid reading for those with little time and a need for mental escape. Each story varies from a few sentences to a page and is connected to an image drawn in a style that harkens back to the origins of tabletop roleplaying games. Whimsical and wonderful, they provide the perfect departure from the norm in this too busy world.
Simply put, this is a manual to learn a user friendly approach to classical fencing and swordplay.
Axes are one of humanity’s oldest tools and weapons. Using his simple approach, Nicholas Tockert’s sequel to the Simple Sword seeks to be a primer into the world of axes as tools, weapons, and throwing weapons. This is a great introduction to the Axe for aspiring martial artists.
This Simple Spear
The Spear is one of Humanity’s oldest means of defense. And as such is something everyone should learn. The third in an on-going series of books, The Simple Spear follows the tradition of The Simple Sword & The Fighting Axe in that it is an easy to understand, plain language approach to teaching historical martial arts. This series is meant to provide a simple easy introduction to historical weapons techniques.
Small Arms: A BSR Story
Paperback Edition
Kindle Edition
On the distant world of Praxxis 5, where giant war machines called Battle Supremacy Robots stride through the killing fields of the future. Jack D’Arcy is a happily well off Mercenary who happens to be the right man in the wrong place to stumble in to a situation of corporate intrigue, relentless super science, and twisted mind granted terrible strength. The balance of power has shifted on the planet and unless he can protect a single girl, the horrors of the next MegaCorp War may engulf them all.
Eyes to the Sky: A BSR Story
In the wastelands of the distant world of Praxxis 5, where huge walking war machines called BSR’s do battle with other armored vehicles, an Old Man keeps a lonely vigil and carries a terrible secret left over from a war everyone would rather forget. Together with a young man he must face an impossible threat and the ghosts of his past.
The Whisperer
A Lovecraftian story that dictates one man’s journey into the origin of his nightmares.
Through the Thinning Veil
Between here and there, fact and fantasy, the known and unknown… There is a Veil.
Across these seven stories, we peer into the horror that happens when the line grows too thin. Some may be based on actual events, some dreams, and some pure fiction. All are light, bite-sized chunks of the bizarre and frightful. So grab a warm drink, snuggle down and enjoy what you find…
Through the Thinning Veil
Haints & Hellfire
In the sleepy southern town of Valesburg, a horrific crime draws in reporters from all over the country. Billie ‘BB’ Blaire of WNTF News, with her long suffering cameraman Ralph, smells a story that might get her a Pulitzer, if it doesn’t kill her first. And if the story doesn’t kill her, her powerful competition, Brock Wolf just might.
Six-year-old Jimmy watched something kill his parents. Something inhuman. And it wants him next. His only hope is his Aunt Ellie, who lives up in the mountains and knows the truth of things the modern world works so hard to forget. The Haints that move in the night are real. And Ellie wants revenge against whatever killed her sister.
In the Appalachian Mountains, which stand older than bone, things move in the shadows with dark purpose. Blood calls for blood, and contractually the Law Offices of Crimson & Black might just ensure it is spilled.
Lives interwoven by these events come together across a few nights of death, violence, and eldritch horrors that will haunt the survivors for the rest of their days.
Games
Melee
Melee is a great game designed to help armchair generals and seasoned commanders compare strategies set in a Historical Recreation/Re-enactment Medieval Setting.
BSR Quickplay Rules
‘Big Stompy Robots’ or ‘BSR’ is a quick, simple game designed to bring new people to tabletop tactics games. It is easy enough for young children to learn quickly but is full featured enough for tactics players of any level of experience to enjoy. This quick-play format was designed to burn time while waiting for dinner to arrive at a restaurant, or at sitting at a coffee shop. The full version is due out later in 2017 and will feature destroyable terrain rules as well as 9 core units, including the BSR, specialty terrain, and other exciting features. So get together, roll some dice, and blow stuff up!
BSR Core Rule Book
Paperback
Kindle Format
Set on the distant planet of Praxxis 5, Big Stompy Robots lets players control giant mecha called ‘Battle Supremacy Robots’ and other units to wage epic battles for control of the resources of the planet! Big Stompy Robots is a easy to learn, fast to play, tabletop tactics game for the whole family. BSR is designed to played with minis or proxies you may already own, so you don’t need to spend a lot to get to play! The simple, yet dynamic rules allow complex tactics without a lot of squabbling. It can play so fast that entire matches have been played while waiting for a rules discussion to be settle in another game. A great starter for teaching miniatures based tactics games, BSR is certain to be an instant classic. All you need are these rules, a tape measure or ruler, a 10-sided dice, and some miniatures and you are good to go!
Hybrids: Sons of Gods RPG Quickplay
In the near future, a powerful corporation has brought together super science and mythological magic to unlock the hidden powers of genetic remnants left behind by ancient beings known as Nephilim. Laying dormant within the blood of modern man. These unknowing carriers develop fantastic powers that will reshape centuries to come… but they are disappearing. As unthinkable evil moves through the shadows, and governments and corporations scheme to control this power, a band of heroes rises to stand against them. As a dystopian future builds towards becoming a literal hellscape, heroes clash with demonic forces and humanity is caught in between. As the players choose their characters they also decide whether to stand for light or darkness and find out if they are mortal men or something else: Hybrids, the Sons of God.
Hybrids is a roleplaying game set in Luke Stone’s ‘Hybrids: The Sons of Gods’ Universe with a unique rule set designed by Nicholas A. Tockert II. It is a Modern Urban Fantasy game set in a world much like our own. With easy to learn, fun to play rules based on the Base + 2 / Lockdown Engine. Players can quickly generate immersive, exciting heroes and get right into the action. Where they can discover their powers and change the fate of the world. But in the shadows the Gamemaster is watching..and all Hell is about to break loose.
Hybrids is written for 2-5 players, intended for ages 16 and up due to some intense imagery. The first published adventure module, Storming the Gates of HEC, is included in the Hybrids Roleplaying Game Quickplay Edition. The Hybrids: The Sons of Gods RPG Core Rulebook is set for release by Holiday Season 2021.
Art
Deviant Art
A vast collection of Nick's artwork from the last 17+ years: Sci-Fi, Old School Fantasy, & Traditional!