So, I thought that the Readercon harassment conversation itself was amazingly useful, and would have remained so on its own merits even if it had stopped at the two year ban, because this talk was happening out in the light of day instead of being brushed aside and hidden as has so often happened with harassment incidents in the past. I was even ( Read more... )

Updating with a schedule for this game. Brad can still take more people if anyone's interested, and has one pre-gen free ( Read more... )

Brad wanted me to post these for his kind playtesters.

Mostly I'll be running a rules-lite game. When mechanics come up I'll tell you what to roll if you don't know, then what happens.

For those who have played earlier editions of Ars, there are ten eleven fundamental assumptions about what works that are different in 5th edition. Here's the ( Read more... )

Perhaps we shouldn't have posted during a holiday weekend!
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If Brad gets this adventure finished in time, he'd like to playtest it at our house on the last weekend of July or the first or second weekend of August. We're looking for 3-6 locals who'd like to play 5th edition Ars Magica. Your own characters of the right age are welcome and up to three pre-gens can be provided. Brad is also willing to ( Read more... )

I just sorted through all of my tea things, and I realized that I have too many yixing teapots and too many crackle-glaze cups ( Read more... )

What I've been working on, in a slow and sleepy fashion:

• Furniture shopping, with the help of both my mother and Brad.
• First pass of backups. Hitting the stuff that I would cry without such as music I don't have CDs for (Amazon Cloud is good for this) and the itunes DB. Also miscellanea such as LOTRO settings that are annoying to rebuild from ( Read more... )

(I wrote this around May 1st and forgot to hit post, oopsies ( Read more... )

Girlyman is playing Don Quixote's in Felton on April 29. I first saw them opening for Dar Williams and really like 'em. Lots of close harmony and clever, wistful lyrics. Folk-rock. I've never been to Don Quixote's before, but Felton's easy to get to from my house. Let me know if you're interested because I'll try to go if I have energy and

I've just tried out Santa Cruz Local Foods for the first time, and I'm very excited about it ( Read more... )