Since I have been back to Oberlin, there have been four fire alarms. One woke me up Monday morning. Another woke me up Tuesday morning. And then two more sounded Wednesday, one at 2:30 AM, the next two hours afterward, just as I was getting back to sleep.

In the vernacular of a memetic internet site: Fuck my life.

I'm scheduled on an early morning flight that should get me home around noon this Friday. When are all the rest of you goons gonna be back in town?

As Sam mentioned, I'm looking to run a D&D game over the summer, and since it'll be one of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths, most of the prep work is done for me...so no reason we can't meet as often as ( Read more... )

It's official. i have gamed the system in ways undreamed of Sam, the Uber-Weasel himself. Next semester, my D&D game will be worth college credit.

No, you're not reading that wrong, and no, I'm not making it up. Oberlin has a program called 'ExCo' or 'Experimental College', student-taught miscellany courses worth 0-2 credits. You can put up to 5 ( Read more... )

The following video is everything good in the world.

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Ah, Don LaFontaine. You are much missed.

I have recently discovered what may well be the greatest RPG ever created. It's called 'Deadlands: The Weird West' and it is made of win on just about every level.

In 1863, a vengeance-fueled band of Indians, led by a mad shaman named Raven, venture into the spirit world--'The Hunting Grounds', and undo the seal their ancestors placed there. This ( Read more... )

Today, I proudly present my latest attempt at an RP site. Enter, if you dare, the Lair of the Wendigo: http://wendigo.smfforfree3.com/index.phpRead more... )

So...there's a fair going on, and presumably, we're all at least passably interested in going. Having just gotten my work schedule for this week, I can say that I'm available all day on Monday, Friday, and Saturday. Going sometime Friday or Saturday would probably be best, as then I'll be flush with cash from my first payday. What times work for ( Read more... )

I hereby officially unveil my new RP site, No Man's Land. (Ignore the smushed-together way it's spelled in the header. That's just because InvisionFreee wouldn't accept the spaces or apostrophe.)

"Named for the explorer Conrad Dantes, the city of Dantes Point, New York is a large, heavily urbanized island a couple miles off the coast. Since the ( Read more... )

You know that feeling you get when you've got a huge, daunting project that's due tomorrow and you should have started it weeks ago, and then you just sit down and slam it out, and even better, it's good? Yeah. That feeling is really, really damn good. I can only imagine this is what a good high might feel like ( Read more... )

 1. Go to IMDB.com and look up a bunch of your favorite movies ( Read more... )