In the Amber game, one thread of several player-characters is ... acting like they're player-characters.  I'm reminded of some of the commentary in Darths & Droids, to be honest.

Or possibly the bit about the llamas in Knights of the Dinner Table (and how sad is it that I couldn't remember the title, but found it by Googling "I waste him with my ( Read more... )

 I'm sure I'm forgetting a number of characters, but these are mostly from longer-term games where relationship stuff had (or might have had) time to blossom.  If that's the right word.  Perhaps "erupt" is a better one.

Anyway ... Ederyn's background.  I've been busily turning what at first was a throw-away line (the one about the Lady of the ( Read more... )

Well. Around September, I basically abandoned the Spelljammer PBEM that I'd been a part of for ... eight years? I was really busy, the pace of it was sometimes multiple posts per day, and - most importantly - the plan was for the game to end after the next big fight, which was something the game had been aiming at for quite a while, actually.

( Cut for game-related whingeing )

44. The Lake Isle of Innisfree

I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.                        ( Read more... )

He [reading over my shoulder]: "Old Norse Online? We've got to find you better things to do with your spare time."

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Yes, I'm studying Old Norse in order to have my character in SB 'properly' mangle 'Thari' (= English for this purpose).

What? Have *you* got something better to do with your spare time?

brianrogers has suggested that folks memorialize the late Gary Gygax, co-inventor of the seminal RP game D&D, by recalling their first encounters with gaming in general and D&D in particular.

( So if you want to know, read on. )