The d20 Monster campaign grew out of several frustrations. While I've been able to get some gaming in during all of this, the adult campaign I'm in is intermittent and not really appropriate for a 13-year-old. I'd missed a whole lot of play time with my son while his mother was fighting me, and all the events of this last year have taken their toll ( Read more... )

::tap:: ::tap:: ::tap::
::cough::
"Is this thing on?"

So . . . yeah. I've been pretty quiet for a while.

Lots of reasons for that, and thankfully enough of them were good reasons that it has balanced the bad reasons. Iliana Wednesday Eliot Brown was born March 30th, having decided that another month wait was just not going to do. Dylan continues ( Read more... )

A friend asked me to pass this on to my gaming buddies. It was addressed to folks in Austin, but I don't think you need to be in Austin to play . . .

A new FRPG called 'Codename: Era of the Fallen' is now seeking playtesters. It emphasizes narrative storytelling, allowing for deeply immersive roleplaying, and encourages a different sort of play ( Read more... )

Anyone playing Operation: Sleeper Cell? Got a team, or want to make one?

It's for research purposes, of course.

It's 1720, and both Earth and the stars are restless. At home, Mongol warlords vie for control of the Khaganate in the tourneys and mock battles of the Kuraltai, while Isaac Newton and the Royal College of London issue disturbing new magical treatises. Abroad, newly ascendant dark-elf and goblin nations disrupt trade, and skirmishes with ( Read more... )

The corner of Congress and Oltorf is a common stamping ground for religeous proselytizers, and I often pass them on my way to Ruta Maya. So when one of the ladies handed me a flyer, I wasn't suprised to find it was for a local church ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the back of my skull a wizened mambo stirs a gigantic pot. Ideas I find neat (interesting, but impractical for some reason) I give to her, and she tosses it in the pot. Occasionally I ask if it's ready. She may let me taste a bit of the gumbo, but mostly she just laughs and says, "Not YET, childe."

( Look deeper into the pot . . . )

When I was a sophmore in High School, my biology teacher let me use her email to correspond as a pen-pal with students in Bulgaria.  I emailed them twice, and filled up her inbox with mail from the GURPSnet mailing list.  When the administration finally stopped me from staying after school to use her connection, I became the only student member on ( Read more... )

As should be bloody apparent by this point, I'm a RPG geek. Not a mild one, either; I devote serious time and attention to this hobby of mine. Most of my close friends are part of my gaming group, or intimately connected to part of it ( Read more... )

I've been floundering a bit with the plot of my "Buddhist Hotdog" campaign[1]. I ran the characters through a hellishly long "becoming" storyline. They now know that mystical conspiracies control the world, because they dug up files detailing their creation. That payoff also included discovery of lots of wonderous and freaky powers ( Read more... )