So there are a few things that are taking up a lot of my attention currently ( Read more... )

Since January, I've been GMing a solo D&D game for Amber, which has been fun and interesting. Other than a playtest of Mutant City Blues, this is the first significant GMing that I've done in a long time. Those two jobs GMing add up to me doing more GMing in the last six months than in the previous five years. Possibly ten years.

( D&D, reality revision and using in game events to motivate out of game action )

Keeping up a trend of linking to charts and graphs and mathematical analysis of stuff I am interested in.

Over here you can see a mathematical examination of the well known Star Trek cliche that the red shirted ensign on the Away Team always dies. Read that entry, then my conclusions, behind the cut.

( What This Tells Us )

The next time someone claims videogames cause violence, show them this graph:


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There are times that I'm very opposed to D&D, and times when I am big in support of it. Right now I'm still coasting along being very positive towards it, which looks to last at least through June, unless I can get a lot more indie gaming in at some point.

( pointless navel gazing, but isn't that what a blog is for? )

Hey kids, look! It's that supplement for Nobilis that has been rumored for years and years, for free up on the internet! You can also pay for it if you want, in some attempt to show financial support for the game.

And there's going to be a new edition of Nobilis, too. Neat.

So I am (almost) fully recovered from my illness, but we had to spend all day yesterday taking Madeline to the hospital.

( longish story )

Being sick is no fun.

Having a sick one year old child is no fun.

Being sick while having a one year old child who is also sick is somehow even less fun.

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In other news: How did I survive the last decade without owning a copy of Then: The Earlier Years by They Might Be Giants? This album (or collection of albums) is seriously necessary ( Read more... )

So you have some characters interacting in your game (I have no idea what the rest of the game looks like). you get to a point where two characters or two players want different things. To resolve these things, play goes like this:

1. One of the two players declares two possible outcomes for the situation.
   
2. The other one picks which outcome ( Read more... )

If you're following Amber's LJ, then you see that we have joined the ranks of the Wii60 movement. And that Bioshock is as awesome as expected ( Read more... )