Rapid-Fire Update
1. Grandmother OK after mild (?) heart attack. 94 years and counting, bless her.
2. Furiously proofing the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook every day for last week or so. Two chapters left (yay!). Spells and magic items (boo!).
3. Was a gaming guest at Norwescon last weekend. Excellent organization of the gaming panels by timitius. Sat on seven panels with such distinguished company as Jeff Grubb, Wolfgang Baur, Sean K Reynolds, Jason Bulmahn, and Mr. Chris Pramas. Great to catch up with old buddies like Rob Stewart and Andy Collins. Had all-too-fleeting encounters with Scott Magner and Julie Haehn. I like Norwescon. Norwescon is fun.
4. Currently reading Otis Adelbert Kline's Satans on Saturn (never-reprinted 1940s Argosy serial in five parts assembled by me over the last three years) and The Carnelian Cube, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. Both are fun, but item (2) above means that I haven't done much pleasure reading recently.
5. Just got home from the second-ever installment of bigfootcountry's Pathfinder RPG Paizo editorial staff campaign. Great fun set in the town of Sandpoint from the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path (but set three years after those events). My guy is a Viking-style barbarian called Ostog the Unslain. Lots of fun new powers for the Pathfinder rules. Great to have fun with the boys again after what seems like a decade of straight balls-to-the-wall deadline surfing.
6. Tomorrow is the Seattle Friends of the Library book sale, a bi-annual "must do" event with bbcaddict. Looking forward to doing something not directly related to gaming, especially with my girlfriend.
7. Speaking of which, both of us turn 34 in the next couple of weeks. I'm first this Tuesday. She joins me 8 days later.
8. Monday night we're treating ourselves to a birthday gift by seeing Spinal Tap "unplugged and unwigged." The guys are going to do some songs from Guffman and Mighty Wind too, which should be amusing. I saw Tap on the Break Like the Wind tour back in the 1990s. It was Epic.
9. Last week I had the honor to participate in SF Signal's MIND MELD feature, on the subject of the "Forgotten Books of SF." Lots of interesting suggestions from a host of intriguing folk. I was thrilled to be invited.
10: RIP: Dave Arneson, Steve Cannon, Mark Fidrych, Marilyn Chambers. Not a great week for the mid-1970s.
More soon.
2. Furiously proofing the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook every day for last week or so. Two chapters left (yay!). Spells and magic items (boo!).
3. Was a gaming guest at Norwescon last weekend. Excellent organization of the gaming panels by timitius. Sat on seven panels with such distinguished company as Jeff Grubb, Wolfgang Baur, Sean K Reynolds, Jason Bulmahn, and Mr. Chris Pramas. Great to catch up with old buddies like Rob Stewart and Andy Collins. Had all-too-fleeting encounters with Scott Magner and Julie Haehn. I like Norwescon. Norwescon is fun.
4. Currently reading Otis Adelbert Kline's Satans on Saturn (never-reprinted 1940s Argosy serial in five parts assembled by me over the last three years) and The Carnelian Cube, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. Both are fun, but item (2) above means that I haven't done much pleasure reading recently.
5. Just got home from the second-ever installment of bigfootcountry's Pathfinder RPG Paizo editorial staff campaign. Great fun set in the town of Sandpoint from the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path (but set three years after those events). My guy is a Viking-style barbarian called Ostog the Unslain. Lots of fun new powers for the Pathfinder rules. Great to have fun with the boys again after what seems like a decade of straight balls-to-the-wall deadline surfing.
6. Tomorrow is the Seattle Friends of the Library book sale, a bi-annual "must do" event with bbcaddict. Looking forward to doing something not directly related to gaming, especially with my girlfriend.
7. Speaking of which, both of us turn 34 in the next couple of weeks. I'm first this Tuesday. She joins me 8 days later.
8. Monday night we're treating ourselves to a birthday gift by seeing Spinal Tap "unplugged and unwigged." The guys are going to do some songs from Guffman and Mighty Wind too, which should be amusing. I saw Tap on the Break Like the Wind tour back in the 1990s. It was Epic.
9. Last week I had the honor to participate in SF Signal's MIND MELD feature, on the subject of the "Forgotten Books of SF." Lots of interesting suggestions from a host of intriguing folk. I was thrilled to be invited.
10: RIP: Dave Arneson, Steve Cannon, Mark Fidrych, Marilyn Chambers. Not a great week for the mid-1970s.
More soon.