Paradoxia is the name of the fictional universe trying to come out of Jason's mind. Aside from serving as the basis for a custom-made roleplaying game, it perpetually drives Jason to draw, write, program computers, or take up anything else that might be a medium of expression.

• Jason Streetz

Physically, Paradoxia is hundreds of hand-wrought rules, drawings, maps and other setting materials arranged in binders, folders and boxes; artifacts of Jason's earlier years. The storage of more recent attempts to express Paradoxia occupies hundred megabytes of data (and growing) on various hard drives and CDs in Jason's office. Logically, Paradoxia is both a fictional universe, and the cosmological/metaphysical rules that govern that universe.

As strange as it sounds, this all started thanks to a litte 4" plastic toy.

• Gizmo

"The Game"
Over the years, various subsets of Jason's friends and family have played Paradoxia the role-playing game (or just "The Game" as they call it). They have endured as Jason moved from dice, paper and pencil to dice, graph paper, and calculators, and finally increasingly more sophisticated computer software applications. The rules have changed and grown over the years, forever trying to reach what Jason sees as the "ideal" classic RPG model. But it's been a long road, stretching from jason's early pre-adolesence and continuing to this day in full adulthood!

Early on in Jason's stabs at Paradoxia, he tried to write a RPG for the 80's Commodore 128 computer. It was awful, but it was progress.

• Paradoxia on the Commodore 128?

Later, Jason wrote a DOS program to help him handle the real-life GM tasks of running Paradoxia as an RPG.

• Paradoxia the DOS GM Tool

But nevermind the game's development. By far, the most worthwhile byproduct of all this time was the Paradoxia "universe", a deep, rich milieu of characters, worlds, stories and philosophies that Jason never could have made up all by himself.

The Reality
Jason's well aware of the odds against him ever actually publishing Paradoxia as a game or anything else. Therefore, he remains sufficed to enjoy Paradoxia for what it is: an source of fun and creativity with his friends, and an engine for skills development for himself.

So taken with Paradoxia, Jason has even named a cat and tattooed his arm in accordance with names and symbology used in the game.

• Jason's Tattoo
• Jason's Cat, Ptah

The Drawings
Perhaps some on the internet already know some of Jason's earlier drawings through the website "MagicDeckVortex". There his brother John has re-mixed some of Jason's art and material from Paradoxia into a fictional set of Magic:The Gathering cards he calls "Celixia".

• magicdeckvortex.com: Celixa Visual Spoiler
• magicdeckvortex.com: About Celixia

Otherwise, what follows is a quick sample of some game-race profile compositions pulled from old and new artwork alike.

• Jason's Drawings