One week until the next Lost Autumn game (a new LARP in town). I am thrilled. I usually play observant, mature, thinky characters, but this time around I have a character who has the emotional maturity of a high schooler. Last game I had a drunken fight with an ex-girlfriend, got sobered up with magic powers, had a sober fight with the ex- ( Read more... )

I'm running Don't Rest Your Head and the Mouse Guard RPG at Pure Speculation this year, and as I was planning out the DRYH game, it occurred to me that it might be useful to have a dramatic countdown for DRYH, depending on how things go in the game. Normally, I'd haul out some tokens and hook increasing and decreasing the stack to penalties and ( Read more... )

I got offered a spring TAship which runs from the beginning of May to mid-June. This means I get to eat for another few months! Hurrah ( Read more... )

1. My sordid past has come to haunt me. (Well, it would if it were sordid, anyway. I'm the hauntable kind.) I just got notification that this Inara/Kaylee drabble I wrote five years ago (has it been that long since I wrote fanfic?) was nominated in the No Rest for the Wicked Awards. It's been forever since I've been an active participant in fandom ( Read more... )

So, the other night, I'm gibbering with my girl in bed about random stuff. The conversation takes an unexpected turn:

Me: Blah blah blah D&D blah blah blah.

Her: Y'know, I once bought D&D when I was sixteen.

Me: ?! Really?

Her: Yeah. It came in a red box and had the DMG and the PHB....

Me: !!!!!Her: What ( Read more... )

When playing a dwarf who has the templar specialization and templar armor, the Circle Tower quest in Dragon Age is a total cakewalk. In related news, the dwarf in full templar armor is so adorable, especially when compared to the much taller human templars ( Read more... )

I'm experimenting with a free program called Mendeley. It's intended for academics and is essentially a digital library where you load up your pdfs and it'll scan for authors, journals, blah blah blah and generate citations. You can also open up the PDFs, highlight stuff, make annotations, create tags, search through ALL your papers/tags, sort ( Read more... )

Went to the Hunter game last night. It had some cool scenes, which I shall now share because ( I like talking about my character. )

1. Most important announcement thus far: I haz the Mouse Guard RPG. \o ( Read more... )

Pure Spec is on tomorrow and Sunday. Tomorrow, I'm running short demos of Cog Wars, Don't Rest Your Head, Spirit of the Century and Dogs in the Vineyard. Because my printer ink has crapped out, I'm not sure if I have enough char sheets. Then again, I don't know what kind of traffic I'll see. If I were in the lobby, I think I'd be more worried - but ( Read more... )