Question... if I ran one of the 40k RPGs, I think we would need to be able to take two 4-5 hr sessions over the course of the con to actually get an adventure done. Whereas if we play Basic D&D JDP45 "Lair of the Racists" (new title) we can do our usual, loosey goosey, get drunk over a few hours and come to an ignominious end after the second fight kind of thing.

I'm totally cool with both ways. D&D is easy to plan for, is a known quantity, and I wouldn't care if we don't finish or if we only play for five minutes and then it turns into a circle jerk or whatever. WH40k would probably be more fun, but requires a lot more prep work, and two sessions is a good chunk of con time and I would probably want to limit the circle jerking somewhat. (Maybe it is a good idea to motivate us to get off our asses and play some games?)

I do think it sounds fun so I guess if at least three-four of you guys would be up for the two session thing then I am wiling to pull the trigger. Opinions?

PS Seriously. Put your mouse cursor on one of the rings and try and trace your way inward... you can't!

I bet we'd accomplish more in the vanilla D&D game, but I know I'd have so much more fun in one of the 40k games. They both sound good but of course I'd lean towards Rogue Trader. I want to play the Rouge Rogue Roberto.

Get your optics fixed broseph, all I see is spiral everyday.

| Or

OR, I could run one of the Warhammer 40k RPGs, either Dark Heresy (bad-ass religious zealots hunt down heresy in space!) or Rogue Trader (bad-ass ship crew controls the lives of thousands and searches out adventure and profit... in space!).

I wish there were like three extra days of Kubla Con where you did nothing but roleplay and the time didn't count against your life.

Any preference? Or should we do good ol', brainless, brutal D&D? The adventure I started working on is called "Lair of the Halflings."

If it's a spiral, you should put able to start at the outside and trace a path to the middle, right? Try it....

Ry, was that an Arrested Development reference? I approve!

but it looks like a spiral....? should I be crossing my eyes?

It's an ILLUSION!

| This Is Not A Spiral.

It isn't!

| Boobla Khan Ho!

So.... I booked the rooms tonight. Buuuuut, a slight hick-up. The basic rooms @ $106/night were sort of kinda booked already. Sooooo.... I booked the next cheapest Kubla Room rates @ $141/night. :(

On the up side, we get a 9th floor room, some sort of lounge and continental breakfast (free?). It is probably half ass compared to the description. We apparently also get this amenity: "the comfort of one king or two double Hyatt Grand Beds, fitted with soft sheeting, ultra plush pillows and a soft down blanket piled atop an irresistible pillow-top mattress."

Yeah, I will try and work it at the counter on the Thursday before the Con, but I am not holding my breath on that option.

New estimate: ($141 * 1.20 tax * 2 rooms * 4 nights) + ($5 parking * 4 cars * 4 days parking) = $1,433.60. If Ja-El and eLzar each pitch in $70/person ($20 for parking each and say $50 for shit and shower tax) and assuming Ian & David make it, that puts it at $164.20 a head.

Sorry Gents.

D>M>

Teee Heee!

Can't wait dude, thanks!

Board game junk -
Have you guys played Imperial 2030 yet? One of the podcasts I like, Idle Thumbs, while mostly about video games, talked in length about Imperial 2030 and how awesome it is. Any of you have first hand exp with it? If not maybe I will buy it so we can try it. Military Industrial Complex board game.

| I'll take the hit

All right ya pansies, listen up. Last year Denis stepped up to the plate and delivered on some Basic D&D action. This year I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna do it right. Here's how it's gonna go: the game is Basic D&D, the level is 2nd (level up the old characters if you have 'em, otherwise we'll roll new ones). Level-draining monsters, instant death traps, unfairly balanced encounters, this is going to be brutal. We'll play until the elven bitch (or whatever) gets rescued or the last body drops. Is that good enough for you fucking wimps or am I going to have to put up with a bunch of crybaby bullshit!?

Awesome, I'll be getting there Thur night, can't wait to see you all... :|

I'm taking vc around that time, a whole week! Either the week leading into it or out of it, haven't decided (but leaning towards end of May.)

| Floating Holiday

Just informed I have 20 hours of floating holiday I need to use by 5/31, or it gets paid out. I do believe I shall use 8 of those to attend Kubla on Friday morning! Huzzah!

SOOOOOOO looking forward to the con this year. Not like I haven't enjoyed every single year to date, but with all the craziness going on with moving houses and jorbs, I look forward to some unadulterated gaming and responsibility-less living.

Bring on the Juggalos!

| Breath of Death VII: The Beginning

For those with an XBOX 360, I want to highly recommend the Indy Game "Breath of Death VII: The Beginning". It only costs 80 msp ($1) and it's totally entertaining. It's basically an 8-bit style RPG that parodies the genre in a pretty smart and funny way. A lot of the dialog reminds me of the first Monkey Island and the actual RPG is pretty interesting. Turn-based combat that moves pretty fast and has a cool and unique combo system built into it. It's a buck! You should get it. Here's the game's site: LINK and off the xbox site with more screens HERE

| House of Leaves

Finally finished House of Leaves yesterday (well, I skipped some of the appendices). This was a solid read and I'm very glad I read it, however, I would not recommend it without reservations. (Aeryk, I would definitely say it is worth plowing through, from where I remember you stopped, you definitely have some more ups, also unfortunately a couple more downs.)

I think that ultimately it is one step too "meta" (it is a book, about a book, about a film, about some scary shit happening to a family that has just moved into a new house) and although all of this presumably suits the author's intent just fine, I found that for me there were sometimes too many layers between me and what I wanted out of the experience, which was the scary shit. That said there are some very interesting experiments with the form of the text where what is happening to the characters really is communicated by the text.

I think if I were to try and read this book again or if I were to recommend it to someone else I would recommend just skipping all of the footnotes the first time through, reading the Navidson Record, then going back and reading the Appendices and footnotes to get the side story with Johnny (which was a major part of the "meta" story, but I felt that it intruded on, rather than added to, the Navidson Record).

My next book I'm tackling is one Thomas Pynchon put out a few years back, Against the Day. It's another burly book and given Pynchon is a literary heavyweight is bound to take me forever as well.