Okay, this is kind of awesome: South Park of Amber

rob_donoghue, my co-conspirator on The Road to Amber (players of the MUSH will know him as Zakalwe), recently wrote an interesting four-part series on his gaming blog about the lessons he learned from the game.
10 Lessons Learned from Road to Amber
Worth a read by anyone interested in the game, RPGs, or MUSHing.

My new project, The Madness of King Brand, is an entirely different type of MUSH. It's a game of personal horror, and its engine is based loosely upon drivingblind's Don't Rest Your Head.
It begins with the premise that Brand successfully took the Jewel from ( Read more... )

There are days when I wonder if running a MUSH is worth the headache, and then there are days when I stumble upon things like benedict_rta's diary, and the payoff in hysterical amusement makes it totally (probably) worth it.
For some reason, the bit about the hand is just fall-down funny for me.

The new MUSH, The Road to Amber has now hit the "pre-opening phase" -- open to builders and people who want to talk about characters and setting.
Come check it out: roadtoamber.com 6250, or peruse the wiki. Feel free to tell your friends; it's an open invite.

rob_donoghue has web-ified the material from our ACNW game, Karm v. Osric. Check it out.
( Props to my fellow GMs, and our players. )

bastille and I went to AmberCon NorthWest this year, along with rob_donoghue and debela for ( Read more... )

Back in the Madhouse days, we used to run a lot of Big Games, LARP-style one-shots involving a ton of our friends from about a five-state area. (I miss those games, and the people I haven't seen in ages, a lot. Alas, a casualty of the end of our MUSHing days and our immediate post-college lifestyle, I guess.)
Anyway, these were almost all Amber ( Read more... )

I've started MUSHing again, on the new Amber MUSH, Chronicles of Amber (amberchronicles). I blame evilmagnus's damned quote post for this.
I've got a young nobleman of Amber -- a sorceror and a gentleman. I'm building again, more or less for the hell of it.
This morning, in the shower, I had a spectacular inspiration for what ( Read more... )