I’ve been reading a lot of old comics this week. Warren Ellis Planetary The Eclipse Miracleman stories. I’m trying to track down my Authority trade paperbacks as well. There’s been a recent thread on RPG.net about creating a setting where Superheroes conquered the world. This, along with other memes, was part of what I was…
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Gamer. Writer. Dad. Serial Ex-husband. Creator of The 23rd Letter, SpaceNinjaCyberCrisis XDO, ZOMBI, Testament, Creed. Slightly megalomaniac
New Downloads
Some people were looking for them so I’ve put some downloads on the books page: Wildtalents fanzine 1 60K PDF Wildtalents 3 fanzine 1.5MB PDF Wildtalents 5 fanzine 373K PDF 23rd letter character sheet 22K PDF zombi character sheet 86K PDF If there’s anything else in particular that people are looking for, please mention it…
Man vs…
The topic of conversation this morning in the car was the substance of plots. Traditionally, we have plots which are Man versus Man (and yes, I intend to keep the male pronoun because anyone who would be sensitive to it likely has stopped reading a long time ago). Man versus Man This describes the quintessential…
The State of the RPG Industry
An article on MSNBC writes about the woes in the RPG market: “Wizards does not reveal sales figures, but Pramas estimates the overall market for traditional role-playing games at $30 million annually.” When I first read this, my immediate thought was ‘piffle!’ and that it was a vast underestimate of the market. Okay. Let’s take…
OREs Magica
I spent some time at work today thinking about things that could be done with the ORE system. I admit that I’ve not yet had the chance to really test it in anger Part of this is to kick a bit of life into the forums at Project Nemesis as well as the ones at…
WotW: Earth – The Computational Analyser
“In the Spring of that year I had the good fortune to visit my friend, Mr Askell, at the Royal Society where they were pursuing development of a computational device using the research of intellectual giants who had gone before. Bright young scientists to’ed and fro’d with metal rods and some articles salvaged from the…
Feeling Planetary Love
OMG, I’m feeling the love for Planetary all over again. I’m itching to run a Planetary-like game using Wild Talents. Soooo much….
222 years ago
“Blood running in the streets. Mobs of rioters and demonstrators threatening banks and legislatures. Looting of shop and home. Strikes and unemployment. Trade and distribution paralyzed. Shortages of food. Bankruptcies everywhere. Court dockets overloaded. Kidnappings for heavy ransom. Sexual perversion, drunkenness, lawlessness rampant. The wheels of government are clogged, and we are descending into the…
WP upgraded to 2.5
And things seem okay. Still somewhat frustrated that the theme keeps dropping and I’m not aware of any log files/errors. Annoying.
Converting some WatchTower characters to Wild Talents.
Codename: Warhead AKA David Bruce Brandon Appearance: Warhead is an 8 ft tall humanoid suit of armour. Brandon is a slighty overweight man with unkempt brown hair and bushy eyebrows. Background: Dr David Brandon is a robotics engineer. He discovered his electrical generation powers as a teen and quickly started to use it to power…
This doesn’t make any sense
Alpha Flight used to be my hero team of choice but this doesn’t make any sense. How many times must a guy die? Well, they were my favourite Marvel team. My favourite DC team were The Outsiders.
Real Creepy Places
Real Creepy Places is a link for myself. Any self-respecting GM should be able to pastiche one of these into a game.
I get it. Be more concise. Fine.
“Six(1) words(2) can(3) tell(4) a(5) story(6) (while five is too small). Constraints (write without the letter “eâ€; use only one-syllable words; make every sentence exactly N words ) can force me (and you!) out of windbaggery and make certain things possible.” – ABriefMessage It was only recently that I covered Only Six Words To Say…
Portion control
One of the hardest things to manage when GMing a game is portion control. Traditionally we game in the evenings starting at around 7 pm and finishing up around 10 pm or 11 pm. It’s long enough to get something done and relax and make it a social affair. When I gamed in school it…
Wild Talents / ORE
I’ve finally finished reading the system bits of Wild Talents and I do wish I’d read it earlier as it is a pretty solid action system with a lot of crunch and grit. It’s honestly the first time since reading Marvel Super Heroes by TSR that I felt like I could reliably model any power….
It’s my birthday soon….so….
Brooklun Superhero Supply Company Sadly just a graphic. Always wanted to find a thrifty place to get new Anti-Grav Boots. But there is a STORE Here’s the Times article talking about Microtrends. The idea that you can ultra-specialise in something and establish enough of a presence that your store becomes a tourist attraction 🙂 I’d…
All I want for Xmas…
Via Rob:
Theme disappearing
Something is broken with the blog at the moment as my main theme seems to keep vanishing. I think it started when I added the MyTwitter plugin so I’ve disabled it for a while. For updates about me outside of gaming, you can still see my other blog and twitter status on http://cimota.com/blog/