Just the other day, while I was talking with my friend in New South Wales, his ideas made me think of a new possible campaign. Of course it's too late to offer it to my gaming circle, who have already selected their campaigns for the new year. But I can work on it for the next cycle ( Read more... )

I see that Linda LaFlamme has just died, at 85. She was a founding member of It's a Beautiful Day and one of the composers of my favorite song of theirs, "White Bird," one of the most emotionally intense pieces of music I've heard.

Earlier this morning I was talking with C about my other new campaign for next year, Shadowlands, which she's going to play in. It's set in the United States a few years from now, with technology gradually ceasing to function for unclear reasons (unclear to the player characters, that is!). And it occurred to me that what's going on in this ( Read more... )

Recently I chose my new campaigns for next year, based on player preferences, and scheduled the pre-sessions for 23 November and 14 December, where we'll discuss campaign premises, choose a group of character concepts that fit together, and do first draft character design. The players for the campaign whose pre-session is 14 December have already ( Read more... )

Earlier this year, we received a notice from our city's hospital and medical network saying that they were no longer accepting Aetna or Humana for Medicare recipients. This caused us some concern, as we've been with Humana for supplementary insurance at least since we moved to Kansas. So I did some investigation, and found several other insurance ( Read more... )

Back in the twentieth century, I read Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, each volume of which was set in a different parallel timeline. In one of the timelines, the president of the United States was a man named Furbish Lousewart, who was elected on a radical environmentalist program. Chapters began with excerpts from his writings-and ( Read more... )

As of this morning, I've heard back from 13 of the 14 prospective players: three of them have said they want to sit out, and 10 have given me their preferences. I've heard nothing from the fourteenth ( Read more... )

Over the weekend I ran the antepenultimate session of Fronteira, my campaign set in a Brazilian city on the future Mars of an alternate timeline. It's something of a family saga (or telenovela); the two main storylines being worked out are the betrothal of the oldest unmarried daughter, Toni, to a lieutenant in a powered armor force, and the Silva ( Read more... )

As of this evening, I've received prospectuses from eight of my fourteen potential players, and three more have declined to participate, for varied reasons. I'm still waiting on the other three; I've asked them to respond by the start of Monday morning, 7 October ( Read more... )

As of this afternoon, I've sent out the prospectuses for my RPG campaigns to start in January, to 14 possible players and one friend who's simply curious. I look forward to watching the pattern of preferences develop as one and then another comes back. . . .