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November 6, 2006

Crossroads in the Dust

Last night was the last game of what was probably the longest-running Wraith LARP in the world. It began in the mid/late 90s as a spin-off from Champaign-Urbana’s One World by Night Vampire game. Initially, it was a play-test of expanded Wraith LARP rules written by some of the game masters – and there was only one player at first....

November 3, 2006

NoNaNoWriMo

I was seriously considering trying my hand at NaNoWriMo this year, but it looks like work is entering into a ridiculously-busy phase. I will, however, include herein an excerpt from last year’s abortive attempt at novel-writing: * “My door is covered in scissors.” Tom spoke these words several times as he stood outside at the base of the stairs leading...

October 31, 2006

Happy Halloween!

I have random songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas stuck in my head. I suppose it could be worse.

October 27, 2006

Whoa

I can’t decide if this is wonderful, terrifying, or both.

October 25, 2006

d20 Tweaking: Level Adjustments

Over on EN World, there is a thread about the frustrations of trying to make an effective PC wizard who happens to be a Drow. The problem is the Drow’s Level Adjustment of +2, which means that Drow of a particular number of experience points are always going to be behind several other races when it comes to class level,...

October 23, 2006

I don’t need no stinkin’ dice bag…

In the last post, Jeff (semi-inadvertently) reminded me that there was another picture I needed to post. I keep my dice in this:

October 22, 2006

I’m the best at what I do…

In my Wednesday night D&D game, I play a druid who often wild-shapes into a dire wolverine. One of our early encounters in the game was with a dire wolverine, and it made an impression. I’ve typically used a dire bear miniature to represent him in that form, but Angela recently made me an actual dire wolverine miniature: More pics...

October 20, 2006

Character Death

Character death is not something I have dealt with a great deal. In general, I’m opposed to player character death determined by the roll of a die. This is odd, of course, because most of the games I play include this as a possibility and, indeed, as the assumed method of character death. In my mind, player characters are the...

October 17, 2006

Noble Confusion

Angela got me a copy of Nobilis for my birthday. I don’t know what to make of it. The book is pretty, yes. It is written by Rebecca Borgstrom, which – to me – means that the fiction will be good, the game text will read like fiction, and the game mechanics will likely be frustratingly unclear. This is, however,...

October 16, 2006

Cool GMs

Today is my birthday. To celebrate it, I will spread the love. Here, then, are things I appreciate about my GMs (without their names attached): You describe short cut-scenes with recurring villains/NPCs who we haven’t seen for awhile. This effectively keeps them in our minds, so that when they do show up again it is meaningful. Your game is always...