I looked up the definition of the word junkie. It says “Drug addict, esp. heroin”, and the term gets used to describe addicts to anything – adrenaline, sports, whatever. I think junkies (of the heroin type) are looking for the perfect high, which is what I mean when I describe myself as a system junkie….
Category: Commentary
It’s about starting conversations with new people
I started a little storm in a teacup with my last post. Even got someone else linking to me. And some of the comments on that posting (e.g. “Enh, I went and read the Late Gaming post, and it’s so stupid, I couldn’t even work up the energy for a reply.”) just prove the point….
If Jesus had tits, would you believe in God?
On mer writes about rpgs we find an opine about how it’s such a shame that the pulp-rpg “Spirit of the Century” included archetypes such as: Gadget Guy, Gentleman Criminal, Jungle Lord, Man of Mystery and not Gadget Girl, Lady Criminal, Jungle Queen, Woman of Mystery Yes. It’s a bloody shame. So why don’t we…
Episode One – 24th October 2000
Tonight…. We introduced two of the characters to each other. Father Julian Devon, a priest with a secret, is taking his orphans to Liberty Island. Meanwhile, a young scientist is trying out his new Stealthsuit, a suit of armour which also gives him the ability to turn almost invisible and, wait for it, teleport 25…
Conventions for the remainder of 2007
I missed Warpcon in Cork which annoyed me and I just realised that this weekend is Leprecon in Dublin. Would I go all the way to Killarney? That’s a long way. As is Galway. I’m not really into going across the water to England or Scotland at this point unless I can get a small…
I’ve been a busy boy…
Starting up wow4kids is taking up a lot of time!!!! But have a look at the reviews section and tell me what you think!!!
Would I GM for money?
There’s a bloke on StoryGames who’s advertising his new business: Will GM for money. The price is $50.00 per month of weekly play, as of the 23rd of Febuary, the price is $10.00 per week payable in advance, which including includes snacks and drinks: a five session pass comes with a spiffy membership card with…
My Superhero Game.
I’m not happy with the current crop of superhero games. My favourite is Advanced Marvel Superheroes from TSR which is nearly 20 years old. It’s certainly the most flexible and from the most basic amounts of text, oyu can extrapolate so much. I’ve tried most of the games out there and I’m really not happy…
James Wallis is back. And you thought he was just tall.
James Wallis, poster boy for the health benefits of vegetarianism and one of the nicest blokes I know now has his own blog. James will always be welcome at my table. I do mean dinner table because it would be WAYYYY too intimidating to have him in a game…
Tonight at TTN
Tonight at TTN we made characters for my upcoming WatchTower superhero game. True to form we generated them using the random generation rules for the Marvel FASERIP system and we’ll probably convert them to something else later. Paul ended up with a Priest who has the uncanny ability to transmute compound materials into other substances,…
I just started using YouTube
Seems a better way to host videos etc…
Weekly Gaming
The game at TTN was delayed again essentially because in the middle of the afternoon my car died. I did eventually get a courtesy car but the day was so cocked up anyway, I just cancelled. Today I’m reading the Gear Krieg RPG. It’s really really nice. Tomorrow night, KinnyGraham will help us resume our…
Episode Zero: The Premise
Premise: Game start is June 2000. There are superheroes. There is no known definitive reason for their being, but they’ve been among us for decades. During the war years, the Allies and Axis powers deployed their own superbeings in the armed struggle and the US continued to use superbeings in all of their conflicts for…
Cherry Hinton
I have a friend who looks just like Cherry Hinton. No, not the town. The character Jared Earle used to play in SLA Industries who was nicely illustrated by Dave Allsop. The really weird thing is that she even calls herself “Cherry”. SLA Industries was the game and Nightfall were the people that inspired me…
Looking for some men in tights
Back in 1998/99, we played my WatchTower campaign with Aidan, Gavin, John, Alan (and Iain briefly). The team took over an Avengers-style franchise in San Francisco and fought several implacable foes, befriended some, lost others and rid the world of a nasty piece of work (Bloodrage). They also discovered that they culd traverse time using…
Gaming Last Night: Gizeh and ZOMBIES!!!
Last night’s effort consisted of a rather fun 3D game of Connect 4 called Gizeh. And then we played the Zombies!!! boardgame. Gizeh really is quite brain tiring as it’s a race to win all the 4s and you keep score of them, unlike Connect 4 where you spend all your time trying to link…
One sentence settings…
This is kinda reminiscent of the “Six Word Stories” posting from a while back and also acts as a reminder for you to go read Story-Games. Just do it. It’s the right thing to do. Anyway, the concept is a formula: A (feeling) (genre/place/time) where (struggle/theme). Much like many Story-Games discussions, the fun is in…
Paleography…
From the National Archives, a tutorial on paleography. Fascinating subject and with a little work you can use it to construct some fairly classy looking props for games. I was first introduced to it by my friend Paul and found I was quite proficient at the stuff he was working on. Anyway, it’s a fun…
Gaming again
Gaming resumes next week with both KinnyGraham’s DG game and my own Zombi game. It’s been a dry couple of weeks.
Here we go. Candles: lit. Pentagram: drawn. Chicken: ungh, ungh, decapitated.
This humourous post It’s almost like this Wicca shit doesn’t even work really made me chuckle. It runs core to the magic system in Qabal – almost identical. And of course the punchline is o so ironic