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More 4E Stuff...
I think I can safely say that there's something wrong with 4E. Not the game itself (I've mentioned before that the game is satisfactory as a system, if not one to my tastes), but rather the entire marketing and business model surrounding it. I've read enough reports online from game store owners who state that 4E's books are selling like 3E's ( Read more... ) -
Coraline
I read Neil Gaiman's Coraline today in anticipation for the new movie, which M & I are seeing with Erin this weekend. M's prediction was extremely accurate, in that it only takes about two hours of consistent reading to finish. Not that it's a bad book by any account: it's a visually interesting and rather clever old sk0l fairy tale, following ( Read more... ) -
Let it snow...
Snowed pretty hard 'round here, and kept on snowing. Mercifully my boss let everyone go home at 3:30 if they wanted to. So I took him up on the offer: I've only got until Friday and then I'm done for another quarter, so I'm rapidly entering "lame duck" status. Here's to hoping that it either gets so much worse that driving becomes impossible ( Read more... ) -
Spider-man Makes No Sense
So I was thinking on my way to work today about what comic book character I would like to write, if Marvel or DC gave me the chance. And my immediate impulse was to say Spider-man, since he is one of my favorite superheroes. But as I got to thinking about Spider-man as a character in a coherent, logical story, the more problems I discovered. ( Read more... ) -
Making Non-combat Encounters Interesting In D&D
Since my new D&D mini-campaign is in its second week, I thought I'd make a post about some of the experimentation I've been making to the rules, so that anyone that likes them can steal them.
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to everybody! And a Happy New Year, and all that! -
An Ending
As of 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, I have completed my first novel ever, The Legend of the Golden Land: Book One. It took roughly eleven months to complete, and clocks in at over 166,000 words, making it my longest work to date. I am rather proud of it and have now completed my New Years resolution for this year. Now I'll take a break until ( Read more... ) -
My Review of Dungeons and Dragons 4th-edition
Having finally had the opportunity to finish reading pretty much everything from cover to cover, I feel like I can make a comment about my feelings regarding Dungeons and Dragons 4th-edition. In a nutshell, as I stand at this moment, 4E is a disappointment. Before I progress further, allow me to clarify: D&D 4E is definitely a good RPG system, ( Read more... ) -
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I got my hair cut today. While for most people that isn't much of an ordeal even worth mentioning...but if you've seen me anytime in the past 2 years you know that I have remarkably long hair (as in, longer then this icon of myself). Well, it's all gone now and been replaced with a stylish business professional cut. But it's still kinda ( Read more... ) -
A proposal...
It just sort of "popped in there" (to quote Ray Stanz) the other day. I find writing a synopsis of the quests I run rather boring, but i still want some form of record of what happened. And so i starting to think about alternative methods of recording my player's exploits...and it hit me like a bolt of lightning. So i think i may, at long last, ( Read more... )