March 2008
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Time for some more Death Tribble commissions. First up, Aquatic Evil. Guppy gone bad. Bad Guppy, bad! Then, in DT’s game, Doc Destroyer has a scientist sidekick, who is asian. He said (I’m…
Suits ahoy! →
First off, Spinergy kicks ass. Friday night at The Island was a lot of fun. Last Saturday I met up with my best man and groomsmen; Dave, Conan and Brian, to get their suits for the wedding. Got…
Painting Houses →
Warren Ellis, from his forum, Whitechapel: ”The tenor — and, frankly, the informedness — of online comics conversation over the last five years has changed to the point where I probably need to…
Houses of the Blooded: Mass Murder of orc →
Orc in HotB = Anything that isn’t ven. Not to be confused with the hate-filled, Tolkien-inspired orc of the Burning Wheel game via skype. Orc is just another name for monster, more or less. Last…
Last post of the morning? →
The stand-alone PDF-only version of Spirit of the Season is now available on IPR. http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16590 Starting in April, you’ll see the PDF show…
Actual Play Review Week: SOTC Review! →
A Spirit of the Century review popped up as part of RPG.net’s Actual Play Review Week: http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13704.phtml
Reaper and the Dresden Files →
So, Reaper is back on TV (though I think there’s another pause happening before an April sprint) and I’m still enjoying it. It’s not coming off as clever post-strike as it did before, but I’m still…
The Secret Lair: Comics, Clones, Books and Budding... →
There’s plenty of activity over at The Secret Lair these days. We’ve posted our discussion on Richard K. Morgan’s Market Forces in the latest episode of The Secret Library, the donations…
Quick Follow-Up →
ratmmjess has decided to give a “small” peek inside Strange Tales of the Century here.
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Time for more artwork!!! First up, a buffy-esque type character. Then a more superhero/villain brick who don’t know his own strength. And a enigmatic wind/ice/cyrokinetic … and…
The Secret Lair Blood Drive →
Please be aware that no one ever said that the blood drive at The Secret Lair was for the Red Cross. Check out the newest comic from Natalie Metzger. We’ve got more scripted, so please…
One of those "Other Stuff" things →
Two weeks ago I posted about the State of the Hat, listing out most of the projects I was comfortable talking about as being in Evil Hat’s sky. Today, after exchanging some emails with
White Spring Friday →
Kat and I spent the car ride to work both glaring and cussing at the snow all around us. Reading: I’m like a little kid, playing with the food on his plate but not eating it; just can’t get into…
Bookstuff: Podiobooks in Print →
Download the PDF version of Scott Sigler’s Infected for free until Monday, March 31st!
More on that in a bit…
I arrived home this evening to find a soggy package from Amazon.com on…
Department of Practice What You Preach →
So, we’ve been having some speed-of-shipping problems lately at IPR. I don’t want to go into the details of it too much, but suffice it to say that after I talked at some length about what to do…
It's raining in Tokyo →
So, here’s one of the projects I’m peripherally working on right now: Blue Devil Games’ Tokyo Rain, a roleplaying game (still in early development) based on the John Rain series of novels by Barry…
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Three players down, the Riders still manage to investigate some of the strange things happening in Salt Lake City. Towards the end, they face an old enemy, The Butcher, and White Fire encounters a…
Duel of Wits: High King Wicks the Dragonslayer vs.... →
Backstory: 8 centuries ago the last Dwarf to hold the title High King was taking the Blood Star, a ruby the size of a warrior’s fist to Evenstar, to parade it in front of the Elves, who love the…
Shark God Versus Octopus God by Jeff Vandermeer,... →
Linked here from VanderMeer’s blog: “StarShipSofa has an awesome podcast of my f–ed up riff on Fijian folktales.”
Tuesday morning, Santa Monica →
Took the longer walk to work from the corporate condo this morning and had time to stop off at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at 9th and Wlishire. While I really like the atmosphere, the…
An Experiment in Social Media, or, How I Spent My... →
Check this out. This was lunch at Mahalo Today. Wait for a while, and you’ll see something really interesting happen as Jason asks the folks watching on Qik to digg one of our articles.
Mud →
These kids are making me happy this morning. In other news, Kat and I didn’t take the bus from the parking lot but walked in to the library. I could clearly smell mud. Yay, mud.
Dresden Files RPG Alpha Chat - The Rolemonkeys... →
Rolemonkeys After Dark #5 is titled “A double shot of Dresden”. I wonder why? Find the podcast here: http://www.rolemonkeys.info/2008/03/rolemonkeys-after-dark-5-double-shot-of.html
More Tea Vicar? →
Well this is the first evening in over a month where I have come straight home after work. I’ve kind of forgotten what it is I do with myself. My house feels cold and a bit odd. The oddness comes…
Fish →
Last week we noticed that our betta had a couple of small holes in his dorsal fin. At first I thought this might be damage from one of the other fish in the tank, because I’d spotted some damage to…
Doing It For Free in the Classroom →
Atarashi Games is offering the full version of their game Classroom Deathmatch for free in PDF form: http://www.atarashigames.com/ghostshark/Classroom%20Deathmatch%20retail%201.pdf They’re…
Julia Bond Ellingboe - I got to meet her!!! →
Sam Chupp and Julia Bond Ellingboe Originally uploaded by SambearPoet.
Last night at Spelman College, I got to attend Julia Bond Ellingboe’s talk about the game “Steal Away…
You're Going To Screw It Up →
You’re going to screw it up. Whether or not you actually did, even — someone out there will perceive you as having screwed up, at the very least. Mistakes happen, especially in publishing….
Doing It For Free Works →
Doing it for free works. I’ve talked about this before, but chrishanrahan has brought in another supporting argument today. Read about it here: …
Time And Tide →
photo credit: s,B - Michael Brenton-King of The Wachoo Wachoo
It seems to me that the greatest risk facing creative, driven people today is not obscurity. It’s…
Bitstrips: Remixing →
One of the interesting things Bitstrips allows users to do is remix other users’ strips (provided the original creator grants the appropriate permission). The function is “Edit a new strip based…
Artists I Know! Your art is needed for Game Chef. →
Quoth benlehmanIt gives me a frankly-should-be-illegal-amount of pleasure to announce that the Game Chef Artists First! art and game design contest is seeking art submissions until…
HOW-TO: Provide Poor Customer Service →
Laura got a new cell phone for her birthday and I, gadget geek that I am, was browsing through the various menus and options when I noticed that the phone was in roaming mode. In fact, the…
The Secret Lair 0008 Escapes From Lab →
The latest episode of The Secret Lair, featuring our discussion about Richard K. Morgan’s Market Forces, escaped from the lab early this morning. You should be warned that the show…
Positively Punchy →
A positively punchy Kurt Weigel reviews Truth & Justice on Game Geeks:
Rob and Fred on the Independent Insurgency →
Rob Bohl from the Independent Insurgency podcast came down to interview Rob Donoghue and me this past weekend.
Fri, 21 March 2008
Episode 007: Rob Donoghue and Fred Hicks on Spirit of…
Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel →
International Association of Time Travelers: Members’ Forum Subforum: Europe – Twentieth Century – Second World War Page 263 And thanks to Futurismic’s Friday Free Fiction round-up.
Friday rpw with picture →
This picture makes me laugh. Something about Gas Mask Helly Kitto standing next to a kid with a V mask on. Pic grabbed from Warren Ellis’ forum, Whitechapel. Reading: I finished Locke…
We Felt Very Dull & Mopey →
I’m back! I’m back! Real life has crashed back in after the most all consuming show I’ve ever done (apart from Hair - pause while all readers who were in Hair stare off into the middle distance and…
Wow! Burning Wheel! Woof! →
Burning Wheel. Cool game. I’m reading it. I’m trying to wrap my widdle bear brain around it. It’s interesting. I would like to take some of the doods who hang out at the D&D Meet-Up and get them to…
Do you want to win a free print copy of Spirit of... →
I’m pretty sure you do. It’s a good thing you’ve got your actual play reviews all ready to go and get submitted for RPG.net’s Actual Play Review Week, isn’t it? :) Extra cool thoughts will be…
Deadlands Session 18 →
This next session was just White Fire and Ellen. It’s a little shorter than usual, since the girls got their stuff done and decided it’d be best to leave the rest until next time when there’d be more…
Are you trying to get your manuscript read by an... →
If you’re trying to get a book published and getting it read by an agent is hard, you could do a lot worse than go with Jim Butcher’s and Catie Murphy’s agent, Jennifer Jackson. But she’s a busy…
Sightings →
Scott Acker posts up a supernatural cop from his Dresden Files RPG playtesting: http://johnpaul613.livejournal.com/5193.html Ryan Macklin posts actual play from his “Bad Man” scenario for Don’t…
Mick Bradley Talks Fate and Dresden →
Mick Bradley podcasts about Fate and the Dresden Files RPG playtest: http://harpingmonkey.com/tgtmb/?p=23
It's Not Just For Improv →
One of the phrases that has emerged from the lessons the gaming community is learning from improv techniques is “Here’s how I make you awesome.” This is a good lesson, one which folks can and should…
State of the Hat →
State of the Hat So one thing that chrishanrahan tells me that folks kept asking at the recent Endgame Minicon was “So how many books are Evil Hat going to put out before they put…
Boardgame Night →
Saturday’s boardgame night went well. It was a nice and relaxed afternoon/evening. We played a couple of games, watched some TV, all good. I think we might do it again for Good Friday, since nearly…
Mortal Coil: Actual Play "Survival, Inc." →
OK, so I finally got to play Mortal Coil. I know that I screwed up the game according to the rules. I got to the character generation part of things, and I am farely certain that I did character…
Actual Play: MomoCon SOTC →
Once again, I ran SOTC at con. It was a lot of fun, both times. But, I gotta say, it is SO LONG to make characters. I’m just going to start putting together pre-made characters, at least with maybe…