So despite not having posted in like a year and change, I've been getting all of these people friending me these past few weeks! Hello new people! What the hell is going on with you folks?

I actually kept on meaning to get back to this blog but never quite seemed to get around to it and at a certain point it started to feel pointless. Still, though ( Read more... )

So, you may or may not recall my mentioning some time ago my having joined an online roleplaying game here on LiveJournal, which I had nothing but good things to say about. There have, since then, been some interesting developments on that front.

Specifically, I seem to be running the storytelling side of that game now.

This past summer, the ( Read more... )

A week or so ago, I  posted a story on bad_rpers_suck  ; a community of some 13,000 or so people I co-moderate (AND WHICH CONSUMES LIKE TWO HOURS OF MY DAY EVERY DAY AS A RESULT), which I figured you folks might also enjoy. There's a bit of pre-amble which isn't totally necessary to understand the story, but which may be of interest to you as well; I'll simply ( Read more... )

There’s damned few webcomics I actually read regularly these days. This was not always the case; there was a time when there was probably fifteen or thereabouts on my regular reading list. These days though? Maybe five or so.

There’s one I came upon a couple of months ago, and the people I’ve been speaking with outside of this blog will already be ( Read more... )

Some of you may recall, some months ago, my having posted about an online roleplaying game I had joined (and some other group of you may not remember it, but may learn of it by means of clicking on the handy and informative link embedded in that sentence!). At the time, it seemed quite interesting to me, but fairly shortly thereafter, I learned ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I told the first part of the story of Family Man. To sum it up briefly, a player in a large live-action Vampire: The Masquerade game which I was running, who was not apparently taking the game seriously at all, had his ill-conceived character’s life torn apart as a result of careful and painstaking machinations by another player ( Read more... )

I posted this on the community bad_rpers_suck  this morning, and it seems to have been pretty well received, so I figured I may as well post it here as well, for those of you who are into this sort of thing.

This is a story from years and years ago - some time around 1999, if I remember correctly.

I was the Domain Storyteller for the local Camarilla group - the ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I noticed an ad for a roleplaying game on one of the communities I’m a part of. These ads are astonishingly common, and I typically just ignore them. I couldn’t tell you why I gave this particular one any special attention. Indeed, the game is of a sort that I normally abhor; a “pan-fandom” game, in which people, rather than ( Read more... )

My regular gaming group has rather collapsed, it seems, sad to say. With one player suffering a debilitating injury which renders him bedridden, another finding his life too busy to keep up with all of his various responsibilities and a third simply withdrawing into himself for reasons which are as yet obscure, I find myself bereft of roleplaying ( Read more... )

So, my regular gaming group has decided to give this new game Pathfinder a try. Pathfinder, for those who haven't heard of it, is a reaction to Dungeons& Dragons 4th edition, which is more than a little controversial; it's a pretty substantial departure from 3rd edition, which we'd been playing for around a decade and for the most part enjoying ( Read more... )