Tonight was the first session of Criminal Element for the Tuesday night gaming group.  CE is a heist and caper movie RPG that I've been developing for the past four years.  It's been a slow burn as I've worked through various bits with the system, making sure everything works how I want it to and all of that ( Read more... )

I know that I haven't updated in a little while, and I'm a little sorry about that.  On that subject,
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More in-depth analysis later, but oh man oh man did we have an amazingly great first session of Primetime Adventures this evening.  I cannot fathom the utter coolness of the TV show that we sat down and made.  You are my new best friend.

-m

I have this problem with filters.  Or so I have percieved.  I really don't have one.  I say what's on my mind for the most part.  While that does include oppinions, I find that it normally gets me into trouble when I'm describing images that I grow in my brain.  Many have noticed that I'm a visually-minded person (haha, Star), which would make ( Read more... )

Today started with me being down.  Deep down.  Woke up, couldn't get out of the depths of it.  I dream about Star.  Alot.  And sometimes when I wake up I just want to see her and I can't.  There was a time when I woke up to her laying there next to me, snoring quietly, and now I can't.  I used to wake up before her and I'd lay in bed and curl up ( Read more... )

I've been playing a lot of the demo for the new XBox360 game Crackdown.  It's made by some of the lead designers that worked on Grand Theft Auto III and the lineage shows.  It's a sandbox style game with a serious comic book aestheric.  The difference in Crackdown is that you play a cop rather than the crooks, or in this case a vat-grown ( Read more... )

Scene:  Friday night, late evening.  Dan Ravipinto and Michael O'Sullivan stand in a small crowd of gamers at a New Jersey-based Role-Playing game convention.

Michael:  (looking concerned) How are you feeling?
Dan:  Okay.  You know...
Michael:  Yeah.
Dan: (looking concerned) How are you?
Michael: Well, y'know... I'm fine.  As long as I keep busy, as ( Read more... )