Managed to finish Mass Effect 2 for the second time last night.  I started playing through the game again in early February for several reasons.  First, I wanted a save file I could import to ME3 next month in which all of my characters survived the final "suicide mission" (in my first play-through, Grunt and Mordin died).  Second, I wanted to play ( Read more... )

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Sorry it's been so long without an update, but it's hard to find the time these days.  Scion ended with the session I previously described, and though the new Deadlands game, "Desperation," is going well, I don't feel the need to post about every session.  The players have settled nicely into their new characters and are adjusting well ( Read more... )

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A momentous weekend was had by all, as our demigod characters played through the final (for now) session of Scion: To Every God His Day.  Though we may take up the mantles of Cathy, Wendel, Lexie, Hector, Maria, and T.S. again some day to see them through the final stages of their journey to divinity, for now that story is over.  More on ( Read more... )

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This weekend was, as usual, a mixture of fun and exhausting.  On Friday, we played what is likely the penultimate session of the Scion:  To Every God His Day campaign (at least in its current incarnation).  More on that below the cut.  On Saturday, The Wife's Vampire game was cancelled due to illness, so she, Lexie's player and I ( Read more... )

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Sorry for the long time with no update.  This weekend was sort of a "back to the grind" for us, as we slowly got re-integrated into our usual weekend gaming routine.  On Friday night, we played Scion as usual, with events mounting up as we race toward the campaign's (temporary) conclusion.  Click on the cut below for the full story.  On ( Read more... )

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Friday's game was a little abbreviated, as the players and I mutually agreed to finish out the current volume of Scion (probably about 4 more sessions) and then give the campaign a rest.  The current plan is to run a classic Deadlands game for a year or two, and then reassess whether we want to return to Scion and finish out the Haven ( Read more... )

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Last night, I had a package from Amazon on my front porch when I got home.  As I'd been waiting for this particular package for two days (and, to some extent, for the previous 16 months or so), of course I tore into it right away.  About 20 minutes later, my Mad Catz Fender Mustang Rock Band 3 Pro Guitar Controller was unboxed, assembled ( Read more... )

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So it's been a heck of a couple of weeks, what with financial and health issues cropping up, hurricanes, earthquakes(!!!) and everything else we've had to deal with, but we have managed to survive somehow.  We even got to play Scion on Friday night, and test out the new mass combat system I've been developing (apart from a few balance ( Read more... )

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This was a somewhat truncated weekend of gaming for me, as a massive traffic jam delayed the start of our Scion game on Friday night and prevented one player from making the game entirely.  Consequently, we didn't get to playtest the new mass combat system I've been developing, and the session itself consisted almost entirely of one big ( Read more... )

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So most of my time recently has been spent with A Dance With Dragons, which should surprise absolutely no one who knows me at all.  But I took some time off this weekend for other diversions.  Friday saw the beginning of a new storyline in Scion: TEGHD, in which our heroes are introduced to the beginnings of the religions which have ( Read more... )