So the entries here should become more frequent this year as I start recording a new plot in my RPG campaign, Udra. About two or so years ago, my old plot thread, Circus of the Mighty, dissolved as two key players moved away–and four years before that, another dying. In the early days of the [...]
So over the last few months, I’ve been using VoIP to join in tabletop RPG sessions with friends around the world. With players in Bahrain, Thailand, NYC and San Diego, we’ve been running play sessions nearly every alternate Thursday for few months now. Now, this is probably old news to some of you meatspace gamers [...]
So I’m revising this entry on the bus home from work. Thank you 3G! And the next hour or so, I roll some dice with Toby, John and the New York Crew on Skype. People in Thailand, the Persian Gulf, NYC and Seattle and it feels like we’re all in the same room, with video [...]
This was news I meant to post here months ago so, it’s kind of stale but, to keep a personal site fresh you gotta start somewhere. So several months ago, towards the beginning of a summer, I saved up the money and bought a bunch of new hardware to assemble into two new desktop boxes. [...]
So I haven’t wrote anything here for all of January and most of December. Actually I’ve been writing up tentative entries on the bus to and from work but nothing has jelled up into a good article to post here. It’s the digital equivalent of the horror of the blank page that all authors must [...]
Nearly a month ago, my friend Victor bought and downloaded Portal, a first person action game that involves puzzles, the legacies of faceless defense corporations and bizarre physics. He invited me to try my hand at it. The game very strongly reminded me of Paranoia, right down to the jumpsuits and manipulative, deranged robots. For [...]
[Victor, Greg and Ralph in attendance on 11-18-2007 between 3:30PM until about 9:30PM. Greg was running Thalin and Chingara. Victor was running Mandark and Stirge. Ralph was running Dwalor and Telwyn. Hilda and Helga started off in Greg and Ralph's hands but when combat started, Victor was mostly calling the tactics. The Circus is currently [...]
Victor, Greg, Ralph and Ian in attendence. 9-23-2007 around 5PM until about 9:30PM. However what follows is really a summary of two sessions: To recap briefly: The Circus is in Darth Lom, driven there primarily by Thalin’s vague but powerful paranoia and his obssessive curiosity for the histories and cultures of this ancient land. But [...]
So I’ve been playing City of Villains once every few months on my friend’s son’s account as I house sit for them. So why wasn’t I playing World of Warcraft, which was also on my friend’s machine? The irrational reasons I haven’t tried WoW yet are: Simply everyone is doing it these days or has [...]
So if you don’t mind running the Wine emulator on occasion, if you don’t mind being careful with what hardware you install, if don’t mind native ports of older games or if you don’t mind games with older technology and sporadic support, there are tonnes of games you can run in Linux. This entry was [...]