Neitherworld Stories

August 20, 2007

GenCon Report Part II

I spent more time in the exhibit hall than anywhere else. There were a few reasons for this. First, Angela’s booth was in the art show and, you know, I wanted to spend some time with her. Second, the place was huge and filled with cool stuff. I easily get entranced by books as it is. Add in swords, cool...

August 20, 2007

GenCon Report Part I

I got back from GenCon last night. It was my first, and I think I took it to be a learning experience. Initial impressions: Damn. This thing is huge. I kept feeling like I was probably in the room with people I knew online… but I didn’t know who they were… There needs to be a Beginner’s Guide to GenCon....

August 16, 2007

4venture

The 4e announcement depresses me. I am trying to figure out why this is. Some random thoughts: I’m worried that the licensing will change. From what I’ve read, it sounds as if all open-license-fan-material will need to be run through Gleemax. If that is true (and it may not be), it has at least some unpleasant consequences for what I’ve...

August 16, 2007

Well, then.

Last night was the first session of Jeff’s Rebel Scum game. It was a whole pile of fun. Heavy on the action, light on the rules. It felt like Star Wars. That was good. I finished the night with two hit points – mostly because I kept forgetting things like Force Points and the Second Wind rules… Then I got...

August 16, 2007

Things coming together…

I have internet at home. This is a good thing. In celebration, I will share with you a happy beholder:(pen and pencil doodle created during an rpg session, colored quickly in Photoshop.)

August 14, 2007

GenCon

Current plan: Leaving work early on Friday. Going to GenCon. Coming back Sunday night. I have no idea what I will do once I am there. Have fun, hopefully.

August 10, 2007

I’m back

It was good to be in New Orleans. Now I am back. The guest house I was staying in was awesome. They had an internet connection, but I mostly stayed connected via my nefty-new phone (a Treo 700). It occurred to me that the Treo probably has some good gaming uses, other than being a handy calculator. It can function...

July 30, 2007

Gauging morality

Moving is tonight. Tomorrow starts a week in New Orleans. Now is the time to be distracted. One of the things that I claimed I was going to talk about when I began this blog was morality in gaming. I don’t mean the morality of gamers at the gaming table, but rather how gaming can have moral content in various...

July 27, 2007

Random leveling thought and away message

First, I should apologize for not updating lately. I’m in the middle of moving and will be headed to New Orleans next week. It will probably be two weeks before I begin updating regularly… unless I figure out how to do so from my new Treo. Anyway, I was reading a thread on a forum (probably EN World – I...

July 20, 2007

Silly Template Week: The Only Way it Could End

The material enclosed in the box below is released via the Open Game License. Ninja Be vewwy vewwy quiet. I’m hunting evweyone. Creating a Ninja “Ninja” is an acquired template that can be added to any creature with a Dexterity of 10 or more (referred to hereafter as the base creature). A ninja uses all the base creature’s statistics and...