A dozen people have now emailed me their receipts for their donations to Doctors Without Borders via Drive Thru RPG. In fact, a few more than a dozen have emailed me, so I will throw in a baker’s dozenth book.

The 13th book will be a name drawn from a hat after DTRPG shut down their fundraising efforts, so if you decide to donate through them, go ( Read more... )

See, this is one of the things I’ve been forgetting to post about.

Drive Thru RPG has gotten together with approximately one zillion game designers and they’re offering an unbeatable package: Donate $20 to Doctors Without Borders through them, and get $1400 worth of RPG downloads in exchange.

Furthermore, DTRPG are matching $5 and $10 donations, if ( Read more... )

I think perhaps I'm not cut out for RP servers on CoH. Too many years of MUSHing, I suspect. I was just watching a character who'd come from a sheltered background drop pieces of information about her history and cryptic clues about what she was supposed to do to find herself, and she said she shouldn't pursue them right then, because she felt ( Read more... )

End of week writing tally: 86 pages, approximately 21,000 words. 5 and a half chapters written, and I broke a hundred pages on the book. I'm 14 pages short of 20 pages a day, but 16 pages *over* my non-over-achiver goal of 15 pages a day, so I'm really happy with the week's output. And I'm utterly and totally looking forward to not having to ( Read more... )

I'm feeling like a useful member of society today. I got up at a reasonable hour, which I haven't done all week, went forth, shopped, came home, cleaned the kitchen, had a productive email conversation, am making bread, and shortly will make fudge. I'm going to walk the dog in a few minutes, and I need to call to see about getting my hair cut. ( Read more... )

My big plan for the day, "Get Petite (my energy/invulnerability tank on Liberty, not Jo's car) to 16th level," has been thwarted by CoH taking the servers down for maintenance. And by the Circle kicking my pansy ass all over Steel Canyon. I kill a couple guys, then have to run out to find a contact so I can get enough inspirations to survive ( Read more... )

There's this article on BBC about women being insufficiently involved in the gaming industry. It's got a comments section which won't let me actually post a comment, so I'm posting here what I tried to write there, because apparently I'm sufficiently annoyed by the whole thing to do so.

I find it interesting that this article focuses entirely on ( Read more... )

Gakked from all over my flist this morning: Name 12 characters you have played in RPGs, before looking at the questions that follow. List your characters numbered 1 to 12, with the name of the RPG you played them in. Once you've picked your 12 characters, look at the questions and answer accordingly. (No peeking until you've picked your characters ( Read more... )