I have an Intro to Media class at Pellissippi State.  Nice class.  I had to take a series of photos related to a form of media.  I have tweaked them in photoshop and otherwise made them more presentable. I am not at great at photography.  It is something I wouldn’t mind being better at actually.  I like good photography.  Still, these were all ( Read more... )

I have been helping to write a larp for a while now.  It is called Dust to Dust.  We have a really good development team and I would like to humbly say, it is one of the more detailed larp worlds ever written.  The rules are interesting and have a lot of depth as well.  It is a project with a lot of text.  The plot committee are all fans of the ( Read more... )

Sometimes game designers and rules wonks can be less than fun to play games with.  This is not to say they can’t also be awesome, but the critical way of looking at games can be problematic.

Case in point, I played Empire Builder with my mom recently.  She has loved that game for years. I played it with her back when, I was in college the first ( Read more... )

So, going to school eats a lot of my energy and time.  It is going to a good cause, but it is still eating it up.  One thing I have hard time doing, is taking time to play games.  Too much else needs my attention. I have writing projects for Dust to Dust, podcasting, hopefully some game and fiction writing, on top of the school work.

I think will ( Read more... )

I was asked as part of my Web Design class, to pick three sites I use a lot and explain why.  After doing the write up, I decided it was worth sharing beyond class.

http://google.com
When I originally composed this post I specified gmail, but let me rather say Google as a whole. I use GMail and from there I can get social networking, phone calls, ( Read more... )

I occasionally contribute to the Tome Show podcast.  Jeff is a good guy and he has a fun little podcast about D&D, and more specifically 4e D&D.  I appeared on the most recent episode which can be listened to here.

The episode is meant to be a review of the new D&D series.  We meander in the beginning on some recent news from WotC and I get a bit  ( Read more... )

Another fine, fine, article I wrote for the 4e blog, Temporary Hit Points.

http://temporaryhitpoints.com/2011/01/17/i-want-to-be-good-really-i-do/

I wrote it as part of a series I am doing for the blog on playing evil.  This one is a counter point article, talking about playing goody goody characters.  I feel like the article on playing evil came ( Read more... )

I am occasionally surprised by my mom.  I sort of forget, she has spent a lot of time around people who I and many of my friends admire.   She get to do this by being one of those people who helps run science fiction conventions.  She tends to do stuff for World Con among other things.  The economy being what it is, she has had to slow down some, ( Read more... )

So, it is Christmas time.  A season of giving, of snow and family.  It also a great time to work in some gaming if you can.  To that end, some friends of mine and I wrote a bit of a Christmas project.  We called it the 4E Christmas Special.  It is filled with goodies for DM’s and players a like.  The contributors are myself of course,  Jeff Griener ( Read more... )

The thing that always fascinates/frustrates me, is the tendency of people to blame the ills of the world on one group or another.  People all the time, will blame any number of things on the group with whom they dislike or disagree with.  The group that is not you, is always the problem.

It is easy to see in politics.  The Republicans will blame ( Read more... )