Welcome to the oceans in a labeled can, Welcome to the dehydrated lands, Welcome to the self police parade, Welcome to the neo-golden age, Welcome to the days you’ve made. – Welcome (to the future), by Hawkwind If some smart bugger can’t make a game setting out of this in 24 hours then I don’t…
Month: December 2006
Separated Dad at Christmas
The arrangement today is that I’m getting my kids at around 8 pm and having them for the next 4 days. After a morning of catering for my nephew and being excited for others as they regale me with tales of delight on the faces of their little ones, I can’t help but feel a…
Frantic….a week to Christmas..
I’ve been writing a lot on the WIKI recently and quite a bit in prepared posts for sending out later this week maybe. Most of it is is WotW: Earth stuff with one little diversion into game design theory. I’m writing alone at the moment, real life having intruded with my co-writers. I’m not sure…
“When it come to emotions, even great heroes can be idiots.”–Sir Te to Yu
Gaming and the Real World
It’s definitely a little crap when both of your gaming groups have to cancel due to the Real World encroaching. It does leave me with a slightly deflated outlook for the rest of the week. Especially as I was really looking forward to it today, having had a visit to the dentist and 3 work-related…
WotW: Earth – Progress
I don’t know if anyone is even reading this 🙂 Certainly doesn’t look like it in the comments. I’ve got two more WotW articles on the back-burner. About the actual technology, machines of war, recovery of civilisation and what we were left with afterwards. I’ve not written a jot on system yet. Will likely re-use…
WotW: Earth – The Red Men
The tragic story of a face-eating fungus on Youtube and another about mind-controlling fungi has pushed me to write a little about the Red Men. “The church bells were ringing for evensong, and a squad of Salvation Army lassies came singing down Waterloo Road. On the bridge a number of loafers were watching a curious…
Stop the bus I want a Wii-Wii
Again The Mulley comes up with the linky-goodness. Looking at all of this makes me want a Wii. ( 😀 chuckle. See what I did there. I’m SO funny. 😀 )
Egalité
In a newish blog, 10 by 10, they opine about the potential lack of balance in superhero games. I mean – Superman and Batman teamups? How does that work out? One can chew through steel, the other can…um…buy hotels with spare change… All said, having either as an enemy would be A BAD THING®. Anyway,…
spam apam soam saom?
I get a lot of SPAM. Never mind the amount that gets grabbed by my ISPs filters (which are raised one level of strength every year or so), I commonly have 300 or so that make it past the ISP and into the Junk Mail filter of Mail. There’s 50 or so that make it…
WotW: Earth – Here is the News
“At the corner of the bridge, too, I saw one of the common contrasts of that grotesque time–a sheet of paper flaunting against a thicket of the red weed, transfixed by a stick that kept it in place. It was the placard of the first newspaper to resume publication–the Daily Mail. I bought a copy…
Writing elsewhere…
A few days ago, a d20 supplement author had a little kvetch about getting bad ratings on RPGnow. One of his reviews was very constructive, the second was written by someone new to Earth Languages. He was a little down and claims it almost made him quit writing. As you can see by the thread,…