| Amber Game Log: Session 2 |
[02 Jun 2009|09:51pm] |
Session 2: 5/7/2009
Still in a meeting room at Argolin Castle in Jason's Shadow of the Realm, Talon attends to his prisoner (a vermik) and interrogates it. Discovers that the gods had been to its home shadow and recruited some of its people recently. And it's hungry.
( Read more... )
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| New Gaming Blogs |
[01 Jun 2009|12:45pm] |
Just an FYI. I have started writing about gaming on two other blog sites, only some of which will be cross-posted here.
( Read the details, if you wish. )
And if any of you League members (current, past, or heck, future, why not) would like to post your own material, let me know and I'll get you access to the League blog.
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| Amber Game Log: Session 1 |
[31 May 2009|11:55pm] |
I mentioned in April that I would be playing in my first Amber game in years. We've done two session so far, and I'm finally getting around to writing up my notes as a gamelog.
This is a game log from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dracian's Amber Game, run at the EAGLES regular Thursday night meetings. This is the first post-Auction session, run on 4/30/09.
( For those who are interested. )
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| April 30th, How Appropriate (Amber RPG Musing) |
[30 Apr 2009|01:48am] |
So, all signs are that I will be playing in my FIRST Amber Diceless session in over 5 years tonight, and I'm excited. I'd forgotten how much I missed the game.
( Read more... )
The main point to all this babbling is that I'm looking forward to tonight, and hope the game style catches on with our group. As for the comment on the 30th, no, it wasn't the date on my first Ambercon (that I can recall, anyway - it was April, though), but it is the date of the recurring (8 or 9 years running) assassination attempts on Merlin in the second set of Amber books. Bloody business, but the coincidence is perhaps a good omen. Hopefully I'll be blogging about the game 8 or 9 years from now as well.
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| Rocketeer: It is SO on! |
[18 Mar 2009|10:48pm] |
OK, so I've been semi-obsessed with The Rocketeer since '91, when the movie came out. The design was just, so... keen.
My old comics store in Saginaw tried to get me interested in the title years earlier, but I wasn't biting. Seeing the whole package on the big screen, though - I WANTED that rocket! AND the jacket! AND the Helmet. (And possibly Jennifer Connelly, in that order...)
( It took a while to get that idea going. But now it's a GOAL!!!!!!!!!!! Er,... the costume part. )
OK, just had to crow a bit about that! And I will try to keep a running commentary as the pieces fall together, to pay back the folks who have left similar crumb trails for me to follow.
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| Farewell SciFiChannel! |
[16 Mar 2009|03:37pm] |
We've had a rocky relationship, from the early, heady days of 1993, when I moved from one section of the city, to another, (not) just to get you.
I remember the quirky, weird 'News from the Future' station breaks, with the bald-headed newsguy, and the endless psychic friends commercials. I fondly remember the Sci-Fi Series Collection that introduced me to such obscure gems such as 'Moonbase 3', which are now personal favorites.
OK, recently you've gone kind of schizo, what with your 'reality' game shows and wrestling(?!). But you still had BSG, Stargate (the good one) and new darlings like Eureka.
But now you're finally admitting that mid-life crisis and getting your ear pierced (JUST the LEFT!) and coloring your hair.
It's not that SyFy is a stupid name (no comment). I understand the need to have a brand name you can, say, trademark (though maybe you should have gone for something - I dunno - classy, like SFC?) It's the lame protestations you make in announcing it. Like you are embarrassed to be seen with your (previous) viewers. We're not cool enough for you anymore.
How Skiffy!
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| House Needs a Naming |
[19 Dec 2008|12:59am] |
As some of you know, our 4-square original-farm-house-on-this-corner-of-Elgin, surrounded by 1-story 50's housing home is 100 years old this year.
We've done some upgrades since moving in a few years back, finally got rid of the last of the (possibly) original windows this year, and have been meaning to give it a proper name to commemorate it's centenary.
We've had all year, no rush, but nothing has gelled. So as the year comes to a close, I thought I would ask for suggestions from those who (kinda) know us.
Any thoughts?
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| Gigantic Understatement |
[26 Sep 2008|04:16pm] |
A line I've been hearing over and over this week during the rest of the financial fallout is that 'our economy is built on oil!'
No, no, no. That's not thinking big enough. Try our CIVILIZATION is built on oil. We've been making it so for over a hundred years, which may just indicate the depth of the problems we're going to run into as we face an enforced change away from that.
Talk about culture shock!
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| Fright Night... for real. |
[26 Sep 2008|01:41pm] |
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Apparently in conjunction with a theatrical showing of 'Fright Night' in LA with cast and crew present, a couple of 'guerrilla' commentaries were recorded. You can find them here.
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| Where are the good birthday dinner specials these days? |
[22 Jul 2008|01:56am] |
My folks used to take me to a Japanese steakhouse in Columbus, but I don't think there are any in close driving distance here.
What national chains have good deals? And preferably ones that don't do the stupid birthday song thing.
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| Movie Night - July 5th |
[26 Jun 2008|04:20pm] |
No commenters on my last post, but wiliqueen got a few on hers, and they were all for the 5th of July, so that's the date of the next movie night.
So, who can make it, and what should be the theme?
Since it's the holiday weekend suggestions so far have been Summer Blockbuster, Patriotic, and in a change of pace a vote for my long delayed Dracula day, since wiliqueen is on a vampire panel at her next convention soon.
So say if you can come, and give me suggestions for the theme of your choice and some appropriate movies.
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| No 4E for me... |
[12 Jun 2008|09:17am] |
At least not before the BIG four-oh, it seems.
After keeping my estimated ship date for the 4E D&D book set as June 10th until well into June 11th, I got an e-mail from Amazon telling me that they were moving the estimate back until the middle of July!
I've generally had good luck with their free shipping, but this time it seems to have burned me, since it seems folks who paid for shipping and made order just days before the release have gotten books, while those of us who pre-ordered months ago with free shipping have to wait.
Still, I've got two games I'm running and a third I'm playing in, so I can wait.
Oh, and a 3rd edition game that's on hiatus, and I've seen enough of 4 to realize that it is enough of a different game that it won't replace 3rd with my group. It's just another game.
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| Next Movie Night? You help decide when |
[09 Jun 2008|09:43pm] |
After two successful movie nights in May, we're thinking of having only one this month.
Question is, when?
Available weekends include June 21st, June 28th (though that doesn't work well for us) and finally July 5th, if we stretch the definition of June...:-)
I like the idea of July 5th, but is anyone going to be around and willing to make the trek out here?
Let me know in comments.
(Edited to remove the 28th, as it is a Wizard World weekend, and has other con stuff going on that weekend as well).
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| 4th Ed Keep - Online Gametable Fodder? Who might be interested? |
[09 Jun 2008|02:33pm] |
So, I don't have my 4th Edition D&D books yet, but I DID find a group online that was going to do a conversion of their own.
( Read more... )
So assuming the Online Gametable becomes a reality, and we can make it affordable for all interested (there is something about monthly 'free play' coupons coming with each membership, to allow non-members to join in on the gametable) - who's interested in a Keep on the Borderlands campaign online?
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| So, 4th Edition is Upon Us... Time for Nostolgia - Keep on the Borderlands |
[05 Jun 2008|03:58pm] |
When 3rd Edition D&D first came out, an acquaintance who had been kicked out of the same game I was (a story for another time) decided to run his own.
His choice was to revamp the first published module I ever owned/played, B2, Keep on the Borderlands. With my 4th Edition books coming (hopefully) next week, I've given some thought to what I should run - and I can't think of anything better than revamping that venerable product for 4th.
I know that there was a 'sequel' of sorts published at the tail end of 2end Edition - Return to the Keep on the Borderlands.
Anyone have that/played it? Is it worth tracking down? I was thinking they probably greatly expanded descriptions of the Keep, and would be useful to snag stuff from.
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