It took just about two years, but I have finally finished Tale of Genji. This completes my revised 2008 NY Resolution to read Journey to the West and Tale of Genji. Woo hoo!

I originally set out to read it in part as source material for a LARP set in the Imperial Court in Heian Japan. Now I see that this would be a terrible idea. :)

A. and I have been playing Pokemon White this year, leading to a bunch of Pokemon 'evolutions.' I've been explaining to A. that the Pokemon aren't actually evolving, but rather metamorphosizing, much like caterpillars do when they turn into butterflies. Curse this version for not having a Caterpie or Weedle lookalike near the start of the game! So ( Read more... )

Rift is a very good MMORPG.

I can't believe I'm leveling a character AGAIN. But, that aside, it is fun.

Are any of you playing Rift?

It's been six years since my last bout of this flavor of madness, so why not try it again?

I'm considering running a play by email game of Bliss Stage, Ben Lehman's indy RPG about teenagers piloting mecha against alien invaders in dreams, several years after the end of the world ( Read more... )

I'm back from Thanksgiving in Las Vegas, and finally managed to read through Ben and Jake Lehman's indie mini-rpg Drifter's Escape. I'm intrigued by its mood and the way procedural content is used within it.

Anyone fancy giving it a try? 1-3 hours, three plus players.

Victoria Llyn, Saronia server, in the Limsa Lominsa realm.

I put the game in the DVD player, and it installed and started working. This already is a dramatic improvement over FFXI's install process.

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/

Nostalgia is a powerful draw, but I know very little else.

This weekend was Orichalcon 2010, the house gaming con run by cerebralpaladin and orichalcum. I played in a pair of games and ran one.

*I played in cerebralpaladin's Shadowrun-with-D&D4-rules mashup. Like every Shadowrun game I've ever been in, the planning took longer than expected, leaving not very much time for the run. I thought his characters were fun, and enjoyed the investigation ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting in the hospital holding my one-day old and reading about 1850's Wyoming as research for frontier American Ars Magica. Anyone interested?