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December 17, 2008

What I’ve been reading

I just finished reading Princeps’ Fury (Codex Alera, Book 5), the latest novel in the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher. Butcher is far better known as author of the Dresden Files. I like the Harry Dresden books, but I’ve found that I actually look forward to the Alera books more. The series follows the story of Tavi. He begins...

October 16, 2008

Creepy little statues

Angela and I went to Allerton Park over the weekend, mostly because we needed to just spend some time in the woods. Allerton is pretty cool – it has both formal gardens and nature trails. There are some old, ruined structures in the woods, as well as some random sculptures (notably a large, bronze of a dying centaur). I think...

October 8, 2008

Reprint: Planescape, Revisited

This is a reprint of a post published on February 7, 2008 in honor of the fact that the D&D game Angela is running has moved to Sigil. I wrote this up a long time ago as potential notes for a neo-planescape campaign. I’ve added a couple notes since then. Maybe I will do something along these lines someday. Until...

September 24, 2008

Superstitions in a magical world

A lot of the superstitions we have today are leftovers from earlier times. The meanings of many of them have changed over the years. Some of them are ritualistic behavior meant to bring good luck or protect against supernatural influences. Others are things to avoid for fear of acquiring bad luck. What would superstitions be like in a world where...

September 22, 2008

Sex-starved dwarves

It occurs to me that the title of this blog post might show up in some… uh… inappropriate searches. Ah, well. Anyway: the (fantasy rpg) Dwarf. I don’t know why people started stereotyping them as Scottish, but it has never really resonated with me. In Angela’s game, in which I play a dwarf, I go for more of an Amish...

August 29, 2008

I love it when a plan comes together…

As Jeff noted, we sat down the other night and figured out what the group was interested in doing. Jeff and I will trade off story arcs (probably every 4 sessions or so) in two different games. He’ll be running a pulp SF game in the Buck Rodgers style. I’ll be doing a cyberpunk-fantasy-post-apocalyptic mashup – Shadowrun meets Gamma World....

August 11, 2008

Makin’ Whuffie

On Thursday, I wandered over to the library over lunch to return a pile of books. While I was there, I picked up a copy of Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. While I’d read many of C.D.’s blog posts, I hadn’t read one of his novels before. I finished it, umm, Friday night, I think. It...

July 9, 2008

Inspirational Reading

Here are some light novels I’ve read recently: Devil’s Cape by Rob Rodgers – Devil’s Cape is a modern superhero novel set in the fictional city of Devil’s Cape, Louisiana. The world it is set in is one in which superheroes and villains are a fact of life, and the story focuses upon the origins of three heroes and their...

July 8, 2008

WALL-E: Postapocalyptic RPG setting?

This post contains spoilers for WALL-E, Pixar’s new movie-thing… and won’t make a whole lot of sense unless you’ve seen it. Angela and I saw WALL-E on Friday. As we walked out of the theater, she leaned over and said something to the effect of, “…and they all died within the first year back on Earth.” I pointed out that...

May 12, 2008

Attention Shadowrun Fans…

If you like to mix your cyberpunk with elves, go read Justina Robson’s Keeping It Real. I’m in the middle of it now, and I’m enjoying it. The premise of the setting is that there was a quantum explosion in the near-future that ripped a hole into other (magical) realities. A quote from one of the Amazon reviews, “I found...

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