So it turns out I can update my journal from jabber? Huh, huh, huh ( Read more... )

I have rediscovered the wonderful, cheesy glory which is Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?

If you are unaware, it was a cartoon series based upon the similarly-named Broderbund games, featuring the titular thief Carmen Sandiego and the ACME detective agency's attempt to capture her. It's really quite fantastic - funny, and doesn't fail too ( Read more... )

Things I know about heaven:

1. It is not subject to entropy, or otherwise has a source of energy that ignores entropy in a localized fashion
2. Almost nobody I like will be there
3. I won't be there
4. It probably doesn't have access to YouTube or 4chan or most leading MMORPGs
5. you probably STILL don't get any useful answers to questions like "why are we here"

Occasionally I am given to watch anime.  It doesn't happen that often, because - who knew! - much or most of it is unwatchable pap.  Excel Saga, I'm talking to you motherfucker.  But other times, it is glorious!  I speak, of course, of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni  - for it is indeed glorious - in its simplicity, intrigue, loveliness; and near-total ( Read more... )

This may be destroying me!

No, seriously though.  I'm pretty sure that running five NPCs of the interactive variety (rather than the sort which are best characterised by expression of level and class-combination alone) is going to drive me crazy one way or another.  If my computer chair doesn't just collapse under me first causing massive head ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that for some bizarre reason, the last six posts (including this one!) that I have made to Livejournal (including the final post to
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One of the most difficult aspects of gaming for me is remembering how much knowledge I've given away.  I tend to think I've controlled the flow of information very well,  and orchestrate precisely-crafted bits of intrigue; what invariably happens is that my players figure it out way before I've even begun to really explain.  Good for them - I'm ( Read more... )

As I may have mentioned, I am in the process of developing my own pen-and-paper roleplaying game.  The design philosophy I am operating under is fairly simple: I want character creation to be as fast and straightforward as possible, and for a character's stats (both selected and rolled) to assist (or at least, not obstruct) the roleplaying of a ( Read more... )

As I described in the final post of my previous journaling edifice, I'm running some rather entertaining characters in the game.  That game, by the way, is over - and the party's idealistic swordswoman has parted ways with the surly, religious archer and sticky-fingered redheaded whore.

That's okay, though - the major plot point (which I'll expand ( Read more... )

Hello, again - for again it surely is!

I am Kerin, and this is my livejournal.  Over the years I've had a lot of different LJs, and boy howdy are they pretty pathetic.  In chronological order, the ones I have been after this one are 
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