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Too Cute For Crime
I've been working on the latest draft of Criminal Element, the inevitable beta playtest document thingie, which I'm calling the "Shotgun Bible". I'm calling it the Shotgun Bible because a) I want to have a name for the beta that isn't "beta playtest" and b) it's a cool fucking name.
Anyway, I've got a particular way of writing, especially when it ( Read more... ) -
Spalding
For those of you that might have been wondering where I've been... I've been sick. Very sick. As in "went to the hospital today" sick. All's better now, but over the past coupe of days I've had a fever that topped out at a hundred and three, cold sweats, fever rashes, dehydration, debilitating head aches, and a cough so violent that I found a ( Read more... ) -
Lying Spring
When I was living in Hawai'i I missed the winter. I thought about snow drifting to the ground, the crisp chill in the air, the smell. I thought back on my childhood and running around in the snow and cold and thought fondly ( Read more... ) -
Criminal Element - Thesis Statement
After running my game, Criminal Element, at Dreamation, and having the chance to talk with some fellow creators, I came away with the need to do a rewrite. I understood CE more than I ever had until that point. I knew what game lay at the center of that big hunk of marble I'd had sent down to my studio. Now was the time to carve away all the ( Read more... ) -
Dreamtion 2008 - These Are the People
The first person I talked to once I got to the convention was Rob Bohl, creator of the game Misspent Youth. He was running a game at the moment, but I needed to see him because we were sharing a room and he had my key. I felt bad, calling him up in the middle of his session, tracking him down and interrupting, but he was generous and kind, ( Read more... ) -
Dreamtion 2008 - These Were My Games
Dreamation kicked my ass in the best possible way imaginable. I got to see some old friends, meet some amazing people, playtest my game, run a session of Dirty Secrets that didn't go as well as I would have hoped sadly, and play in a bunch of great playtests ( Read more... ) -
Plots and Plans
As some of you may know due to the little thing at the home page for Livejournal, my birthday is just a couple of short weeks away. In truth, I don't care much about my birthday. I'll be turning 30, which I've been told is a big deal but I can't really get up the energy I need to get freaked out over that.
I do really like parties, though. I ( Read more... ) -
Cutting
Sometimes I get into a weird mood. I'll be having a strange day, something will have set me off, and that's when I get this desire, no... this urge. It will build in me until I sate it. I will come to a breaking point, and then and only then will I go to a very special place and find myself needing to do it
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