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October 5, 2007

Food in RPGs, Part I

I like food. I enjoy cooking, and I am not too shabby at it, either. Last weekend I made borscht. I also broke out the ice cream maker for the first time and made some donut-flavored ice cream. (My housemate had been craving donuts, and it was her birthday on Monday.) I belong to a CSA. I read some food...

October 3, 2007

Recipe Book: Spider Legs with Orange Sauce

Ingredients: 4 pounds spider legs, about 1-2 feet long each1 mug light ale1 orange1 small onion1/3 pound butter1 handful flour make sure your spider legs are thoroughly washed soak the legs in one half the ale, mixing them around occasionally grate 1/3 of orange peel juice the orange mince the onion melt a small amount of butter in a pan...

October 3, 2007

Something to keep an eye on…

The Writer’s Symposium is a group of 20 science fiction/fantasy-type writers who hold seminars and such at Gen Con designed to help writers write. I attended one of these… and, to be honest, I wasn’t terribly impressed. It quickly devolved into “why I like to write sex scenes.” On the other hand, these are writers – not professional public speakers...

October 3, 2007

The bang

Last night was Exalted. We ended last session facing down a volcano. We began this session by fighting it. We beat on each other a bit until the Lunar in our group (who had grown up in the area and respected the volcano) managed to talk us down by pointing out that (1) The volcano ruled here and received its...

October 2, 2007

XO Giving

I’ve been looking at the XO Giving program of the One Laptop Per Child Project. For $400, you buy two of these fascinating little green laptops. One of them goes to a child in a developing country. The other one you keep. There’s some controversy about the laptop and the program, but I think that it is a fascinating experiment...

October 1, 2007

Rites of Passage

So, last week I was at a conference that focused upon cultural competency with respect to social services. Yeah, it was as exciting as it sounds. The conference was in a hotel (right near O’Hare) that I knew I’d been in before. It took me a little while to realize that it was the home of WindyCon. Anyway, one of...

September 26, 2007

Character Concept and Development

When I started playing Bart, I had little more than the concept of “Dwarven Gourmand/Chef” to go on. I expected his primary motivation for adventuring to be to seek out new creatures and eat them (and, you know, to find new cultures and sample their cuisines and such). Some of this has definitely come to pass. The game I am...

September 23, 2007

Iron Chef, v 0.1a

So, in Angela’s D&D game, I play a dwarven chef. For some time, I’d joked about him being an iron chef… and making up a prestige class for him around those themes. Yesterday, I was seriously in need of some procrastinating, so I wrote up a draft. I haven’t given too much thought to how balanced this is yet. I...

September 21, 2007

A Quandary

How is it possible that we live in a world in which Samuel Jackson and David Hasselhoff can play the same character?

September 20, 2007

I attack the volcano!

What? Tuesday night was Jenn’s Exalted game (which I was frustrated with for a bit…. but then made a new character and that helped). We had a hiatus for most of the summer, so I’ve only played the new PC a few times. I’m having a lot of fun playing the impulsive and mostly-clueless (but hyper-competent) kid. We were on...