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Black Friday Super Deals? Probably Not
Fair warning. This has nothing to do with gaming.
I want to switch my home office dual 19” LCD monitors to a 32” or larger LCD television. I have read that a single screen with significant screen real estate is more beneficial than two smaller monitors. To make the most of this switch I will need a 1080p television. Those run about $400 give or take $50.
So when I saw Wal-Mart advertising 40” 1080p LCD televi
Calen Ann’s Thanksgiving Story
Today is Thanksgiving here in the United States, and I wish you and your families a joyous and plentiful life wherever you are.
In honor of the holiday I share with you a story written by my eight year old daughter Calen Ann. It is about a toy turkey that she made in school.
Hi! My name is Lee the turkey. I am sitting under Seth’s desk.
I am the bad tasting rotten fish turkey. REALLY!! I do not like bugs or d
Why I am Planning a Star Trek Game
I am on this Star Trek kick right now. I have always loved Star Trek, but I grew up in a time before DVRs so I often missed episodes growing up. But ever since Netflix added the original series, the animated series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise to their streaming media service I have been watching Star Trek pretty much everyday. The movies are DVD only through Netflix, but I have al
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged ethics, ideology, morals, potential, Star Trek, the future 5 Comments
One Crappy RPG for Kids
Last Sunday I ran a game of Kids, Castles, & Caves for my family. This is a very simple RPG that focuses on delivering a simple fantasy setting with rules that a young child can understand. It only uses a d6, and character classes and races are inseparable. It has a feel that is very similar to Basic D&D.
I have two issues with the game. The first is a matter of taste. The artwork is just plain bad. My eigh
Read “Do the Work” by Steven Pressfield
I recently finished reading Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work and it is a fantastic book. He addresses resistance, how we all have it, and how it is resistance that must be overcome in order to realize our hopes and dreams. Only he does not give you some feel good self-help bullshit advice. He gives you a battle plan to overcome resistance with.
If you want to make something happen in your life this is the book
Posted in Good GMing Tagged art, creating, Do the Work, resistance, Steven Pressfield Leave a comment
If I Wanted Boobs I Would Have Bought Porn…
I will not name names, but as I flipped through one of my recent RPG purchases the depictions of scantily clad women were pretty silly. I mean, garter straps and fishnet stockings with a breastplate that exposes nearly the entire breast does not qualify as armor. I do not care that the artwork is for a fantasy, or sci-fi, or freaking horror game. I am tired of publishers using artwork of women as sex objects in the
Experience, Not the XP Kind…
What will a person experience if they play this game? I think that is a question that all GMs should ask themselves before planning a session, adventure, or campaign for an RPG. It helps a GM to focus on a desired effect for the game. Thinking about how you want the players to feel during the game gives you a goal to work towards.
Do not just brush this question off with the standard gamer response of "To have
Posted in Good GMing Tagged adventures, campaigns, experience, fun, intent, sessions Leave a comment
Campaign Planning: Whoa! How Many Sessions is That!?
I am preparing to start a new campaign with the Where No Man Has Gone Before 2.0 setting based upon the MicroLite20 system. I am designing the campaign around the progression of the crew’s career starting with their training at Star Fleet Academy and ending with the characters having achieved such prestigious honors as being admirals, ambassadors, and prime ministers of governments. How the characters will st
Posted in RPGs in General Tagged sessions, telanovela versus Lost, Where No Man Has Gone Before 2.0 Leave a comment
Blogging: My Three Mistakes
My first mistake is that I have not been posting regularly here, because I thought that I had to post only about my GMing workbook. That project has been progressing nicely, and I was posting portions of my current draft as I completed them.
Yet that meant that I was only posting when I felt that something was “blog ready” or “blog worthy”. A great deal of the current manuscript is not good
