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Savage Worlds, part one
Please ignore the two months of dust in here. We're having a service come by to clean it up.
I ran my first full session of Savage Worlds with my regular gaming group last night, using the Zombie Run mini-campaign from the publisher's website. The Savage Worlds system really is everything I hoped it would be ( Read more... ) -
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"My dad hates umbrellas," said Deeba, swinging her own. "When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.'"
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Kissing Chaos
I just found out that Arthur Dela Cruz is making new Kissing Chaos comics over at Transmission-XI remember picking up the first Kissing Chaos comics back when Oni was publishing them. They were small and pretty, but more dense and dangerous than they initially seemed. They were like a good first album recorded by a garage band: fuzzy around the ( Read more... ) -
I'm pretty sure I saw the potato move, man
As I was eating lunch today, I spotted a couple sitting down to their meal at a table outside. They prayed before eating. Their prayer went on for at least a minute, and instead of folding their hands together or holding them in their laps, they had their fingertips pressed to their temples. It didn't look like they were praying. It looked like ( Read more... ) -
I should have paid attention to the title
I should have known, living as we do in the post-ironic era, that Superbad would not be something I would enjoy. It's not so much a title as a warning label ( Read more... ) -
It's cool to be a robot
Rob Schrab is finally finishing Scud the Disposable AssassinHe wrote the thing for 20 issues, and it looked fairly certain that the series would end on issue #21. But issue #21 never came. That was 1998. Ten years later, I'm finally going to find out how the story ends. Best of all, the last "issue" will be over 100 pages long. So it'll actually be ( Read more... ) -
ow, my dandy earholes
blissitate and I just got back from the Dandy Warhols show at the House of Blues. On the plus side, the band still rocks and the House of Blues is a nice venue for music. On the very very minus side, our ears are still ringing from a sound system that was turned up too loud ( Read more... ) -
Maker Faire
Five and a half hours at Maker Faire today was not nearly long enough. It was barely enough time to see everything ( Read more... ) -
Meme Thing
This is je_smith's F/SF meme thing.
1. Can you remember your first exposure to the fantastic, be it television, movies, books, or stories told to you by others? How old were you?
I remember seeing The Empire Strikes Back in the theater. The book that started my hunger for fantasy was Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin. I won't claim it's the best book in ( Read more... ) -
not even on the burro yet
I just received another e-mail from the Micro Center rebate people with the subject line: "Your rebate check has been approved!"
(That's their exclamation point, not mine.)
Here's the rest of the message:
"Your rebate submission in the amount of 30.00 has been processed. Your savings certificate will be mailed shortly. Please allow 2-3 weeks for ( Read more... )