Waannnnnnt nooooow!!!!!In other news, I've been editing stat blocks. A lot of stat blocks.Also: Posted in response to a thread entitled "Tolkein as a Watcher" on rpg.net. You will not understand this unless you're famili…
Big City Service People: Surly But CompetentSmall Town Service People: Nice But IncompetentException: In small towns, fast food workers generally get your orders right and are also not surly, unless they work for really …
If Literature Worked Like RPGs..."Now that Gandalf tricked the trolls, let's see what's in their cave!""Hm. A glaive-guisarme? What's a glaive-guisarme? There's, uhm, a staff of the viper...anyone here a cleric? Oin? Glo…
Another day, another 5K words.What I Learned While Writing: A low-carb diet will increase the effects of hypoxia.
Killer hedgehog from cover of "Dragonroar!", an obscure mid-80s British RPG which also featured a cassette tape(!) you could listen to which would explain the rules. (I haven't yet tried playing the tape...)
General GenCon summary. This was posted to rpg.net, so it overlaps somewhat with previous posts.=================================I basically did booth monkey for Mongoose the whole con, and was too tired afterward to do …
Home. Exhausted. Convinced my email likely overflowed sometime Friday, leaving me with serious mail issues. Will determine later. Stupid 10 meg limit. Lugging about a ton of new gaming stuff.
Ugh. Who would've thought GenCon would give me so little to blog about? How many variations on "My feet are [insert Hedgie's favorites adjective from 'Dead Like Me'] killing me!" does the world need?
Larry Niven, I thin…
Peer pressure will make people do strange things. The desire to belong, to be accepted, it genetically programmed into the human animal. It makes some people do mind-altering drugs, it makes some people engage in meaning…
Today's viral meme is: Alien Bunnies!Also: Heading off to Gen Con, don't know when I'll be back again (OK, it'll be late Sunday evening, probably.) Odds are, no updates, unless there's net access in my room.
Odd thing is, I figured, being home all day, I'd have one of those blogs updated every 20 minutes. However, one of the effects of being home is that the odds of seeing something worth blogging about are limited. I get up…
Got writing done early, for once. Beth is in a sort of limbo with the job offer situation as her paperwork isn't quite in order. The state has all sorts of weird rules.Conversation from last night, at a local mall."Look,…
BTW, for those interested in reading the original story "For The Man Who Has Everything...", follow the link above.
Something I almost posted to a list I'm on. For various reasons, I decided not to, but I hate spending my time writing and then not sharing my brilliance with the world, so, I'm posting here. If anyone from that list is …
So.The 14 p/day nightmare is over, and I think it's a damn fine product. I only wish I could tell y'all what it was. :) Now, I'm back to a more "normal" 6-8 p/day, playing around in someone else's sandbox, which is both …
It's done! 282 pages of nearly pure crunch, sent off at last! Tomorrow, I run from squamous entities. The day after tomorrow, I begin work on a new project. More things to love about this lifestlye -- my purchases of the…
So much for my fears I wouldn't be able to fill up my current project. My goal was 256 pages. It's currently at 272, and there's still a few things to be added, and there's an entire supplementary system I'm desperate to…
Lizard gets political.
In a debate on a list I'm on, the subject of compulsory national service came up. Leaving aside that such things directly violate the 13th Amendment, (Do you volunteer? No. Is it service? Yes. Hen…
Today, we took our first step into a larger reality. Or, to put it another way, we met some of the local nerds. :) I posted to a local gamers forum and got an invite to a Call of Cthulhu game. Today was a chargen session…
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