Question for my gamer readers ( Read more... )

MovieBob hits it out of the park twice in a row.

Happy St. Gygax's Day!

I need to make up a calendar for my set of saints - wonder if I should add St. Jones to it . . .

Okay, so I've been turning the idea over in my head for a LARP based on the Phonogram comics, to be run "under Masquerade," as it were, during the Spouse's DJ nights. Here's the basic idea:

Each phonomancer would have a schtick - the way s/he accumulates musimagickal energy; two tricks - the effects s/he can produce with the energy; and one ( Read more... )

Finally made it to Owlcon - for a total of five hours. They were very sweet to me and didn't make me lift heavy things for set-up for the CoC LARP; we started handing out character sheets at 9:30, since large enough groups were already there. We actually started play at about 11:00, which is half an hour later than the schedule said but actually ( Read more... )

. . . Spouse and I are both still (a) headachy and logy, and (b) very clearly contagious, so I don't think we'll make it to Con-Jour after all. *mopes* I was looking forward to it, too. But I also don't want to be the source of a round of con crud. *sigh*

Okay. Let's lay this out on the table ( Read more... )

• Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

From tfbretz:

1. Tell me of your dice. Mere tools or boon companions? Do you use whatever ( Read more... )

The question has come up in a couple of different online contexts, and one RL one, relatively recently:

Do you have a game system of choice? Why that one? What attracts you about it?

( I ramble about Game Systems I Have Known behind the cut )

"bibulb, stop talking to the underage girls about the hot, hot yaoi action."

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Need to make it out to Midnight more often. Also, flirting with the cute geeky clerks is a lot more successful when I'm wearing a ridiculously cleavage-tastic dress. I didn't realize how cleavage-tastic it was when I got dressed this afternoon, but boy howdy, did it get