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December 6, 2007

Why aren’t humans weird?

About a month ago, Jeff wrote this nifty post describing religion in a home-brew campaign world he’s creating. In it, he describes how religion is a distinctly human activity and other races find it kind of creepy. Personally, I think the idea would work without his cosmology… even letting other races believe in the existence of gods without worship or...

December 2, 2007

Movie and books

I’ve been feeling vaguely sick for the last few days, so I’ve been unmotivated to do just about anything… including blog. Last night, a few of us went to see Beowulf. We saw it in 3D, which was sort of interesting. Overall, though, I found the CGified style of the thing distracting. The men looked significantly more real than the...

November 28, 2007

What do you want to play?

I’ve been getting the GMing itch lately. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to run a game until February at the earliest. One of my first reactions to the idea of running a game was to think about asking people I play with the following questions: If you could have me run any RPG campaign for you… What genre would it...

November 28, 2007

Cool Exalted Link

J.T. sent me a link to this German site for Exalted: http://www.dcs-designs.de/. It contains character sheets, combat cheat-sheets, the elusive and confusing Exalted calendar, and a pdf book of rebalanced weapons among other things.

November 28, 2007

Confession Time

I’m not a real roleplayer. I know people who, while playing in an RPG, will take on a role so thoroughly that their thoughts become, largely, those of their PC. In a LARP, they might sit in the corner giggling madly the entire game. In a tabletop game, only a fraction of their roleplaying occurs at the table. Much of...

November 19, 2007

Morally interesting plot ideas

…and Depeche Mode (because I’m listening to my 1980s station on Pandora). Get the Balance RightPremise: The PCs set out against a foe only to find out that their foe is holding another potential foe at bay.The Problem: If the PCs defeat their enemy, they run the risk of setting loose another danger.Explanation: Two dangers are locked in a struggle...

November 17, 2007

Spell Synergies

I had a neat (and probably unworkable) idea yesterday about the d20 spell system that would likely require too much work for me to actually write up fully, but I thought I’d share it. Here’s the idea. You cast a primary spell and (assuming you know a spell that has synergy with it) you can cast the secondary spell at...

November 13, 2007

Update, of sorts

Games I am playing in: I’m still playing in Nick’s Mage: The Ascension game (I’m playing a Hermetic slacker), Angela’s D&D game (Dwarven chef), and Jenn’s Exalted game (clueless kung-fu kid). Each of these are on a more-or-less every-other-week basis. Jeff’s Star Wars game is on hiatus or something, as he is going through a bit of (totally understandable) GM...

November 12, 2007

Productive day off

So, today is Veteran’s Day, and my office is closed. It seems somewhat random that my office is closed today, but I am not going to complain. Now, I am sitting in a coffee shop. Angela and I had lunch and talked some Gourm stuff. We came up with a neat/weird idea (involving poetry and technical manuals) that will give...

November 8, 2007

Ick

I probably should have just stayed home sick today, but I came into work this afternoon to prep for a couple meetings tomorrow. The request for proposals for a big mega-grant that I’m working on was just published yesterday. The applications are due February 1, which means I will be crazy-busy until then. This probably won’t detract from my blogging,...