Tin Pan Alley and MMORPGs

I like old music. George Gershwin, Rogers and Hammerstein, that kind of thing. I was thinking about how music was distributed in those days. It was called Tin Pan Alley, and music sales weren’t measured in records sold–records were expensive–but in copies of sheet music sold. Consumers bought the sheet music of songs they liked, … Read more

Why does Mu have no name list?

So I’m just starting up a Dictionary of Mu game over IRC, and in guiding my players through charcter creation, I want to give them examples of names to use. So I flip through the book, and there’s TONS of place-names, and approx. 3 people-names. IIRC, there’s the omnipresent Oghma son of Oghma, Nimrote, the … Read more

Dictionary of Mu via IRC

To get more specific, here is what I posted to the Indie-Netgaming mailing list: I will be starting a new game over IRC. I’ll be running the Sorcerer supplement, Dictionary of Mu. The author’s brief description: Dictionary of Mu: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom meets Robert Howard’s Kull meets the Holy Bible on Mars.” We’ll be … Read more