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  • The random EQ2 update note of the day: " Players should now be able to interact with buckets in Qeynos."

  • Quote from today's game: "I am not putting my life in jeopardy for a map to a tree." Other quote from today's game: "Sorry, I got in the habit of balancing my encounters on the assumption you'd have Chuk."

  • Thing you never want to hear as an author: "We haven't put your book up for sale yet because we're using the first draft to test editorial candidates." (A later clarification noted that this was due mostly to it bein…

  • Things I have learned: It is hard to write about interdimensional mercenaries fighting fascist elves when there's a little black cat jumping on your chair and informing you he is starving to death.

  • Fascinating. Fanzine from 1941 With minor changes, this could be coming off Usenet. It's interesting how little the culture has changed in 60-odd years. (There's apparently a near-complete run of th…

  • We hates being sick, preciouss! We hates it, we hates it forever!

  • Doubleplus achey Lizard. Did nothing yesterday but read 1632. On to 1633. Not sure I'll be up for GMing tomorrow, but I'll drag myself to the game tonight. Somehow. Going to try hauling laptop into bedroom so I can …

  • Achey Lizard. It is astonishing I've stuck to my writing schedule this week. The sure and certain knowledge there is no 'bleed' room is the only thing keeping me at my keyboard. I am currently suffering from some so…

  • Well, Douglas Adams is spinning in his grave. I propose a new law. Only Peter Jackson is allowed to adapt books into movies. Addendum, to Heronymous: True, there was little consistency, but some things which were …

  • Test Australian racists with lasers? As seen on Usenet (So you know it MUST be true!) This is a new one on me. I just had to share it. Who knows? I might be in on the ground floor of a new meme! It's the "uses of …

  • A certain little black cat did not get fed this morning. Thus, he is being a totally adorable snugglebunny. As I write this, he is curling up in my lap. I am torn between feeding him and enjoying him being so cute.

  • From the introduction to my current project, since I've been told I can post it... It sprawls. Seen from one of the airships that drift above the tangled streets, the city is a disc some 800 miles in diameter. It is…

  • Today's writing project is...something I'd like to rant about, but can't. Stupid NDA. So we're left discussing Beth's HM character. In proof of the perversity of the universe, she went through the random table hell …

  • Turns out I entered some wrong numbers into my word calc spreadsheet, to the tune of 500 words more per day than I'd been planning. Now, this is only about a half an hour to an hour of extra work, depending on how muc…

  • Spent the evening rolling up Hackmaster characters. The prize for 'most interesting' goes to the pyromaniac, kleptomaniac, ONE-ARMED thief-acrobat with a Wisdom of 3, an Intellignece of 7 and a really good score in Ba…

  • Somehow, I wasn't tempted to click on this ad.

  • I was trying to be logical..."It's one of the few airships making the route to Fort Grumgarl, there's probably some ogres on it." Everything else followed logically from there. (This is a response to Velexia's comme…

  • In which Lizard thinks too much. Those with no knowledge of the D&D 'Great Wheel' cosmology had best skip this.==========================Where do Ogres go when they die?Well, they're Chaotic Evil, so, they go to the Abys…

  • Well, finally ran a game today for the first time in months. I think it went fairly well, having all the usual first-game-railroading problems. We already had one situation where some random background colour turned i…

  • It's now about 8 months since we moved out here, and there's starting to be some palpable feeling of normalacy. Beth has been stable for a month and is now back at work. It seems I've finally got a stable gaming group…

  • Normally, I prefer to link to images, but this is going to be transitory, so... (Comic Book Guy)It must be noted that no version of D&D used percetiles for any stat other than Strength. I hope someone got fir…

  • Way too cool. Make your own alien font!

  • Heard around the house (roughly paraphrased) "So you're telling me that if God says 'kill your son', you should do it, but if God says 'gamble', you should refuse?"

  • Vital facts YOU need to know!

  • Your      Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score CategoryYour ScoreAverageHacklust50%Will kill for XP53.5% Sensitive Roleplaying32.91%All the game's your stage 54.4%GM Experience27.54%Closer to a novel than to a campaign…

  • Late Tuesday. In a mad rush of editing and revising. Every sentence I write, I think of two more I SHOULD write. There's just so much I want to put in, and so little room.It always astounds me a project which looks so bi…