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Welcome back, and a story.
No idea if I'll stay, or if this is a brief vacation until I can deal with the rest of the world again. All other posts here will be friends-only because I'm kind of a private guy ( Read more... ) -
iPaddin’ it.
So last year I spent a while being very grouchy about Steve Jobs’ vigorously defended walled garden, put my money where my mouth was, and got an Android phone. The Droid X has served me relatively passably, with a couple significant problems: It sucks batteries, and the UI experience is startlingly uneven, particularly in core areas like, say, ( Read more... ) -
Holiday List 2010
Well, here it is coming up on the Holidays in 2010. This year has already given us so much, it’s hard to ask for more. That said? I’m a terrible, material person and more than capable of mentioning a few sparklies that have caught my eye. Here’s a sampling.
- Fantasy Flight Games’ Mansions of Madness - oh deary me. A new FFG game, using the House on ( Read more... )
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Honeymoon Part 2, Vacation Angst Edition
Trying to get back on track here. This doc was originally dated 3/2/2010. Warning: angst alert. This was when I realized how little I could communicate with the locals.
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Honeymoon Posting Part 1
In order to not announce to all those _really smart_ criminals that I’m wandering the world, I didn’t public-post anything about the honeymoon while we were out and about. Now that we’re home and the jetlag has receded to the point that I can imagine being caught up, here we go. This was all written at the time, often after a tiring day. I’m not ( Read more... ) -
A Holiday List of Expressed Desires
Indie Games (www.indiepressrevolution.com)
- Don’t Rest Your Head / Don’t Lose Your Mind
- Spirit of the Century
- No More Roses (Houses of the Blooded Soundtrack)
- Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor
- Godlike
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Houses of the Blooded
So I picked up Houses of the blooded for $5 at Indie Press Revolution - an investment I recommend to any gamer with any respect for John Wick and/or any interest in Narrative Roleplaying.
The game book is brilliantly written, with enough world to whet your palette and enough system to encourage a vivid and active world building narrative tragedy, ( Read more... ) -
Our sweet kitty
On Saturday morning, around 9:30am, Bo started crying in the bedroom. We came to him (all of us, even Luke), and found him unwilling to move, clearly unhappy. Luke tried playing with him, but Bo wasn’t interested. Finally, Luke just settled for cleaning him thoroughly. We brought him to the vet at noon - he had moved a bit in the intervening time, ( Read more... ) -
Realms of Cthulhu
The following shall be considered More RPG Geekery.
With Eloria - Erich’s long-running world - ramping up, I’ve been getting familiar with the system he chose for this era - a lightweight pulp-oriented game by the name of Savage Worlds. Obviously, until I either run it significantly (I’m ramping up a small game in the Slipstream setting for this ( Read more... ) -
Continuing Improvements
Hobbies and entertainments are keeping me sanish in the face of the new state of my job. Beyond attempting to thoroughly internalize Mutants and Masterminds (and start sketching out game ideas), I’ve also gotten a new computer - a desktop to keep in the office. It’s a great beast of a thing compared to any computer I’ve used before - 64-bit ( Read more... )