December 10, 2007 Wah. This makes me sad. In other news, I’m in grant-writing hell. I believe that is Hell #847 for those keeping track.
December 7, 2007 Creepy-crawlies that want to suck your brains out through your eyes… At lunch today, I was thinking about this creature. I came up with a few quick sketches, more details on its life-cycle, and some notes toward some write-ups. I still don’t have a name. I’m pretty sure mindspider is taken. Any ideas?
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...