The Thursday Night crew helped playtest Brennan Taylor's How We Came to Live Here. It's a South-Western Native American myth kind of role-playing game that's not quite finished. Until it gets finished, you can download it for free. As you already know, I've enjoyed playing his game Mortal Coil, and I've got his crazy d20 space game Bulldogs! on ( Read more... )

I'm still trying to find the words that will do justice to the middle of my Saturday at Gen Con. I'm not saying the game, or the experience, or my future post are the stuff of Soul-Crushing Gravitas™ (something which has only crept into my particular idiom once, I believe) - I just really enjoyed soaking up Major Wesely's knowledge before and ( Read more... )

I've posted about a bit here and a bit there, but I haven't really written about the big picture. So here's the big-picture, in brief ( Read more... )

Does this version:


Color Adjusted Version-Rebecca Roberts: They Might Not Need Me by Lori Laitman from George Austin on Vimeo.

Improve upon the original?


Rebecca Roberts: They Might Not Need Me by Lori Laitman from George Austin on Vimeo.

I'd love to hear what you have to say about my color work.

And I've kept my promise since, technically, I made this post early Thursday morning - not late Wednesday ( Read more... )

I think this link will work for people who aren't Story Games members. It's probably adorable enough that you'd want to join SG just to read it. Tony Lower-Basch plays the preview adventure for D&D 4th Edition with his seven-year-old. I don't read many "Actual Play" reports, but this is the best one I've ever read. The whole thread is a great ( Read more... )

I have too much fun writing about not-so-fun things sometimes. Observe!Hey there Richard (and Dad/adviser/customer/potential investor)!

Pinnacle Studio 11 Ultimate is PC Mag's Editor's Choice, and it has some nifty features. It's also only $130, not the $150 I thought, and Best Buy has it on sale for $90. There's always the cheaper versions, too ( Read more... )

...but sadly, not with game relate stuff.

I have made libavcodec my bitch! ( Cut for image size, ya'll )

Despite my obsessive love of learning, my unrealistic expectations for myself, the amount of blogging I do about research, not to mention the ridiculous amount of time I spend reading Consumersearch, Wikipedia, Silent PC Review, and other tech sites, sometimes something important falls through the cracks ( Read more... )

My "starting a business" seminar is on Saturday. Rockin'. I haven't heard back from the Small Business Development Center about one-on-one counseling. Not so rockin ( Read more... )