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.
Category: Commentary
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…
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/
Arthur C. Clarke. RIP.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. Aged 90, he had a good run but will be missed. Wikipedia Link
You run a gaming blog?
Chances are, I don’t know about it. I’m looking for some good gaming blogs to add to my reading lists (which is heavily slanted in technology and business startups). Anyone want to send me some link love?
The usual fare
I don’t remember where I got this but it always made me think about the perfect stag do. It’s originally from the first edition Dungeon Master’s Guide and really proves that, to a degree, roleplayers of the day were ugly virgins. I listened to an early episode of feartheboot on the way into work this…
I am Legend, alternative ending
The alternative ending to “I am Legend” was posted on FirstShowing.net. Ironically, it restores the meaning of I Am Legend though Neville’s ending is different. It would have made a better movie ending for sure.
‘Culture Games’
Back last year we wrote a ‘popular’ post about the top 10 roleplaying games of all time. In the post, I did explain my preference for culture games but also lacked to really talk about the concept. In thinking about it on the way to work this morning (driving is relative downtime), I figured it…
E. Gary Gygax is dead.
I just heard and checked it out on the recently edited wikipedia page (kinda morbid no?) He died aged 69. He said he had an inoperable abdominal aortic aneurysm. A lot of people are very shocked. I never met the guy but I read a few of his books and despite him being the butt…
Prepping for a game
I’m a little intimidated by running a new game. I’d like to run (and by all accounts the guys would like me to run) Godlike. Something about giving it to the Boche really motivates them and it’s be nice to play a game where we have an easily defined baddie. Among other things this will…
Jesus appears to dog owner
via JohnBraine++ The Lord moves in mysterious ways. And it’d look kinda funny when the dog poops moves in a less mysterious way.
I Am Legend
I’ve read the book and watched both Omega Man and the recent Will Smith adaptation. I am looking forward to the March 18th release of the DVD, if only for the alternative ending. Both deviate from the novel wildly but the later adaptation actually annoys me more. In the epilogue narration, the words “and this…
So you want to be a writer
I got this from the blog of reknowned comic artist PJ Holden So you want to be a writer? Or do you want to make a living as a writer?
Star Wars: abridged by a 3 year old
I have to get my kids watching Star Wars
Shopping for a new desk?
Tom Spina Designs (via therpf.com) show us what you can get if you have expensive and sci-fi tastes. http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=39500
RQ: Fantasy Games
Since I joined the group, we’ve been playing either Delta Green (check for kinnygraham’s Actual Play on rpg.net) or Gaslight Cthulhu. Michael’s RuneQuest represents the first game where we haven’t had guns and we are not playing characters who are completely in the dark. We’re playing inhabitants of a world where Magic and the Gods…
RQ: Something bad at Black Rock
Anaxippos removed his golden breastplate and greaves and started to unpack his kitbag. He opened the cap of the spiced oily lotion he had prepared and began kneading it into his tired limbs. Even from another building he could hear the raucous laughter of the men as they settled in for the night. Hesiod’s laugh…