The Road & Other Stuff
So... I'm doing this back and forth thing today that's working really well. I'm helping last_bastion work on game prep for his game (which is his own designed world, and quite frankly, I think is going to be spectacular)... and I'm discovering, much as I do with work, that taking an occasional break from moving data from a book onto a computer to do stuff online is helping get more work done more quickly.
Yay distractions!
It then occured to me, after gothiqroze mentioned it in another post, that I hadn't commented on seeing The Road, which last_bastion and I successfully pulled off today. At 10:30 in the morning. Which required me getting up earlier than I should ever be getting up on the day after Thanksgiving.
I really don't want to say much. I want you to go see the movie. So, instead, I'll keep it short and say this....
It spent the whole time tearing you down your faith in human kind with very few reprieves... but the end is worth it.
I came close to tears several times, complete with the shaky voice afterwards when last_bastion and I were discussing it... you know, the one where you can't quite get the words out without the tearful warble.
In addition to telling you about movie greatness, since I'm about to return to work, I have a comment for the gaming crowd that reads my journal as well.
As a series, Jeremiah is pretty awesome. It was a little watched series about the world that comes following a plague that kills everyone that's hit puberty, leaving behind a world of children that have to come of age with no help whatsoever. Someone somewhere along the way decided that the world would a great setting and translated it into d20.
While I haven't read the rules for how to play the game, I can tell you one thing that I'm thoroughly impressed with. The setting's barter system. One thing that often gets overlooked in post apocalyptic games is the value of stuff in a world where money no longer matters. Quite frequently, you, the ST, are left to create it fully on your own. If you're looking for a framework from which to hang things, you have very little help. The Jeremiah system does a very good job of filling in that framework gap.
Okay... enough rambling. Time for me to go back to work.
Raen.
Yay distractions!
It then occured to me, after gothiqroze mentioned it in another post, that I hadn't commented on seeing The Road, which last_bastion and I successfully pulled off today. At 10:30 in the morning. Which required me getting up earlier than I should ever be getting up on the day after Thanksgiving.
I really don't want to say much. I want you to go see the movie. So, instead, I'll keep it short and say this....
It spent the whole time tearing you down your faith in human kind with very few reprieves... but the end is worth it.
I came close to tears several times, complete with the shaky voice afterwards when last_bastion and I were discussing it... you know, the one where you can't quite get the words out without the tearful warble.
In addition to telling you about movie greatness, since I'm about to return to work, I have a comment for the gaming crowd that reads my journal as well.
As a series, Jeremiah is pretty awesome. It was a little watched series about the world that comes following a plague that kills everyone that's hit puberty, leaving behind a world of children that have to come of age with no help whatsoever. Someone somewhere along the way decided that the world would a great setting and translated it into d20.
While I haven't read the rules for how to play the game, I can tell you one thing that I'm thoroughly impressed with. The setting's barter system. One thing that often gets overlooked in post apocalyptic games is the value of stuff in a world where money no longer matters. Quite frequently, you, the ST, are left to create it fully on your own. If you're looking for a framework from which to hang things, you have very little help. The Jeremiah system does a very good job of filling in that framework gap.
Okay... enough rambling. Time for me to go back to work.
Raen.