Thursday, September 22, 2005

My thoughts on some shit

1. GenCon: Hooray! Yes, we must roleplay again. I think we should plan on playing twice or even three times. It would be neat to play something that we can finish. I am already haunted by memories of horses never recovered, adventurers stranded in Limbo, nightmare-plagued gentlemen setting off on steamship voyages with no resolution, Skaven never slain, Marvel Super Heroes who have fought no crime, and Top Secret S.I. agents who still remain behind at headquarters, waiting endlessly for an assignment that will never, ever come.

2. I am in the same boat as you Eric in terms of wanting to play and wanting to run. I guess realistically we might not have time for a tag-team RPG experience, but maybe we will! I'll plan a quickie Savage Worlds adventure or something. Something weird like a SW Deadlands or 50 Fathoms pirate fest or something. (SW is the only system I am still very familiar with, and the only one I plan on buying any more supplements for -- I'm just getting stubborn as I get older.) Or maybe I will run that exact same Chill adventure Rudy ran years ago. Oh, man. I sort of want to do that now.

3. D&D is fun, yeah. Does the Monte Cook alternate shit look good? You're talking about the martial campaign book?

Oh yeah. Thanks for the painting tips and the morale boost Eric. I tried washing my Ironclad last night, but the mix proved surprisingly tricky to get right. Basically I managed to murk up the base coat, without actually getting very much of the wash into the cracks. So now he looks like he has to go through the Cygnaran Jackwash. I'll try again in the next day or two and see if I can't improve matters somewhat!
RPG's, Kubla Con and Beyond!!!

- It just dawned on me that I am probably not going to make it to Kubla this year, unless of course it's cool to travel with a two month old baby. Though, I'm pretty sure it isn't so, I think I'm going to be skipping this years SF festivities. Just to let you guys know like 8 months in advance. However, each and every year after that, me and little bugger will be attending!

- RPG's at GenCon. I want to play something, and I kinda want to run something too. I'm going to ask for opinions and preferences from ya'll attending, and will then either make my decision based on some, all, or none of the input.

For some reason, D&D seems really fun right now! I picked up Monte Cooks other new players handbook, as well as the DMG II. Both look neat. Also, WFRP is always in the mix as well as good ole Call of Cthulhu. Infact, I found the game journal from Beyond the Mountains of Madness, but no character sheets. So, maybe the Starkweather - Moore expedition will continue! Alexander Smoxacoc sails again!

I'm not really skilled, or experienced running D&D, but it might be fun to do a dungeon crawl of death. Tomb of Horrors anyone?

Ideas? Opinions?

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Nice

That was a pretty funny little commercial Rude. You need to have JP sing "Happy Birthday to me" while the animation draws itself out.

In an unrelated note, I found this blurb at Wikipedia on Caltrops:

In role-playing games, some players refer to 4-sided dice as "caltrops" because they are painful to step on should they fall to the ground.

Students sometimes play practical jokes by twisting staples together to form a mini-caltrop, then placing it on a hard seat where the victim will sit on it. Such devices are often referred to as "ass scorpions."


ELzar: Good having you up in SF. Good times were had. Did the trip back to LA go smoothly?

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AT COMMERCIAL!

I made a commercial for the action team. Here is the Steve?I'mSteve! character. God artpad is SO friggin fun (watch in higher speed for most fun.)

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