So I did ( Read more... )

Make a single good game instead of a bunch of mediocre games tied together.Spore is essentially a series of minigames, where how you chose to complete each game somewhat influences your starting abilities in the next. The problem is, none of the minigames is very good or deep. Most of them are similar to games already out on the market (the ( Read more... )

So here I sit, trying to nurse my dying laptop along until my new one arrives and working on the Mad Science campaign that popular demand demands that I run. It's going to be a challenging campaign, for both the players and for me. Not much combat, for one thing. Not much use of powers. Mostly roleplaying, skill rolls, and puzzles. I know this ( Read more... )

with ninjas and ghosts and robot monkey pirates, and a shaggy bull at the end. But it's coming along well, and should be fun to run.

The backlight on my laptop chose today to fail. Two days before I leave for the con.

At least it gave me enough warning for me to save all the notes for the game I'll be running onto a thumb drive.

Laurie and I had our first session at IPG tonight. Not a therapist that our insurance covers, but one that came well recommended for the issues we are having ( Read more... )

I've had a taste the last few weeks of what those of you who have chronic illnesses must go through. Just a taste, my illness is nearly gone and I expect to be back to normal health and activities this week. It's not the pain and physical incapacitation that's the worst part of it. That's bad, but what's struck me as being worst is the loss of ( Read more... )

According to our local doctor, not only is what I have a textbook case of Shingles, it's so much so that they brought in a student and the doctor in charge of teaching to look at it. "See, this is what you look for". Also, Laurie has the power to make doctors crack up.

I will be working from home all work. I have a doctor's note and everything.

Home now. Caught a morning flight from Vegas to Newark. Took Vicodin and slept for most of the flight. The pain and rash seems to be getting a little better; I think that it may have peaked Saturday night ( Read more... )

Monster Energy drink tastes like carbonated ass, but it did the job, keeping me awake and alert long enough to manage the 4 hour drive back to Vegas. Tomorrow is the flight home. Then we figure out if I'm able to go back to work ( Read more... )