September 03, 2005
For those who may be interested...
Seasons of Mist, the murder mystery Amber game that I run, has (somewhat) recently gone to a list-based format. Which means that it makes those wishing to lurk and see what is going on with Gaius, Jinx, Andred, Starwind, Gabriel and Beckett much, much more able to do so. If you're interested in lurking, please let me know, either through a comment here or by sending me an e-mail. (And, to save myself from spambots, I'll just trust that most of you that read this blog already have my e-mail address.)
In time (read: once I stop working and between various baby related things), I plan on getting the Wiki more up to date, though it has been having bits and pieces added regularly by a couple of the players, with my eternal thanks. Eventually, I'd like to get all of the public logs up there... and some of the news articles.
I think my players are enjoying the game, so there's a good chance you would too. :) Let me know if you want to check it out.
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August 10, 2005
Gaming is back on
For those that didn't know, Rich and I moved to Nashville at the end of July/beginning of August. As such, my online gaming needed to be put on hold (and my face to face gaming is currently kaput, as I haven't found anyone in the Nashville area to play regularly with yet... but it's still early.)
I think the two week break was something I needed. I'm coming back into both my characters and Seasons of Mist feeling refreshed and full of ideas. I may not always have a firm grasp on what they're going to do next, but for the most part, I feel comfortable in them, like putting on an old, favorite pair of jeans.
Which means, now that I'm feeling comfortable about characters again, I can start working on one of my other problem spots - descriptions.
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June 28, 2005
TBR - In Detail, ACD and After the Con
Sunday morning was a bit of a later start for most people. People slowly trickled in over the course of the morning and talk about the previous nights games, along with the upcoming ACD game were a matter of course. This was also where Ginger made the comment "Kris isn't high maintanance" and received a loud round of laughter before she could clarify "as a player."
I left a little early to go get my laptop so I could continue to take quotes and, before I could head back out to where we were originally supposed to game, was interrupted by Paul and Rich, who told me we'd instead be in Michael and Ginger's room.
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TBR - In Detail, Saturday Sleep Time and Monsters!
After The Back Door, I decided to try to get a little sleep. Unfortunately, it means I missed a really good dinner with a large part of the Con at The Longhorn Steakhouse. And I found out, too late, that Rikibeth was up for that, which I would have forgone sleep to see. Even more unfortunately, I couldn't really sleep and should have gone anyway. (And I couldn't call Rich because he accidentally left his cellphone behind.)
But Monsters! made up for it all.
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TBR - In Detail, The Back Door
Rich and I cut breakfast a bit short on Saturday morning because we still had a few things we needed to put together for The Back Door. But by the time our three players showed up (in pretty much the same order we got their character sheets, which I found strangely ironic), we were well on our way to giving them evil GMing goodness.
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TBR - In Detail, Friday Dinner and More Than You Think You Are
After the wonderful slot of Trading Spaces, everyone split up for dinner. A small contingent (Will, Glen, Karen, Olaf, Brenda and her family, Rich and I) went for Indian Food. The buffet was quite good but the prices... oh Gods! It was $18/person, the kids being $8/person. The places I regularly go to here in UC are around $8/person so it was an unexpected and unpleasant surprise. According to Will, the prices have gone up tremendously just in six months since he'd been there last, so he was just as surprised. At least we got enjoyable food, right?
After we were finished, we split all headed out to our own games. Luckily, I was in Paul's More Than You Think You Are Amber/Nobilis cross-over, so I just got to go back to my room.
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TBR - In Detail, Trading Spaces
Trading Spaces
The way life has been beating Deb and Bridgette around, they weren't able to really get much put together for this slot. So much of the working of things out was done while they were in the grocery store. Once everyone finally arrived, they had us pick Elder's names out of a bowl (or Deb's hand, can't remember which) and, if we were truly unhappy with it, we could switch.
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TBR - In Detail, Thursday and Friday Morning
A lot got packed into the three-plus-plus days of the Con and I, for one, was glad to have been able to go again. Mostly, it involved seeing old friends, though there was a chance to meet a few new as well. As I posted last night, I managed to take lots of quotes for all five games and I know for a fact that I have at least one other quote from a non-gaming period.
So now, on with the weekend.
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June 27, 2005
TBR Quotes
It was a long and wonderful Con, with lots of great chances to game and visit. I'll get a full review up tomorrow (I got home and slept for four hours today and I STILL don't feel completely caught up on sleep) but for tonight, here are the quotes from the Con instead. Some of the quotes will make more sense with the reviews tomorrow.
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June 16, 2005
Lunchtime Poll #30: Whaddaya Got?
In the most recent Lunchtime Poll, Li asks
What’s the last board, card, or roleplaying game you bought, and what do you think of it?
I'll answer each individually.
The last board game I got was awhile ago - Vanished Planet. I haven't played it often (mostly because it's in the top of the gaming closet and I can't reach there!), but when I have, I've found it truly enjoyable. Rather than be a competitive game, it's cooperative, everyone trying to save the save the universe from the big blackness that engulfed the earth and is moving ever outward. Since cooperative is much more to my tastes, I enjoy this game far more than many others where I have to be in just the right mood to be competative. Another major advantage (in my mind) is that this game can be played with anywhere from 1-6 players. Yes, that 1 is right - you can play it solo.
Now on to the card game. We actually picked up three while we were in Minnesota for Rich's interview, but the last one was Aquarius, a goody that's been around from Looney Labs for awhile. I've only had a chance to play it once, as Rich and I far more often throw ourselves into a good game of Chrononauts (though we still need to get Early American Chrononauts so we can play ÜberChrononauts). But I did enjoy it as I played it. It's a good "all ages" game that I look forward to playing as my own family grows.
Finally, the last RPG I picked up was The Babylon 5 Role-Playing Game Pocket Guide. I mainly bought it because, eventually, I want to pick up the Techno-Mage expansion and I want to run a Techno-Mage game of some sort. I've not had much of a chance to really submerse myself into the rules of play with everything else going on, but what I've read has intrigued me enough to make sure the techno-mage book is next on my list of things to buy and think about running a game after things slow down a bit.
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