What? No confession? I’ve nothing to confess but being re-invigorated about designing my game. By The Stars? Didn’t you pull the plug on that thing a month ago? Some games just don’t know when to stay dead. Running a By The Stars scenario powered by WGP… at Dreamation last week really re-invigorated my interest in … Read more
Storn Cook played in my Mutant Academy game at Dreamation. As is his habit, he did a character sketch, which can be found in his post-con write-up. Check it out!
Anyone wondering why Kat and I were so tense and non-committal at Dreamation, and the last few weeks, should read Kat’s explanation. She says it better than I could. The brief version is: Things are looking up! Summer cons (Origins, Dexcon, Gencon) here we come!
Wow. Now that was a great convention! Dozens of events went off with barely a hitch to be found (at least that I heard about). Pick-up games and animated conversations scattered like snowflakes across several floors of the hotel. Double Exposure put on a great con, and the Indie Games Explosion was a great success!
Thanks to the bottomless ingenuity, dogged persistence, and tireless hard work of my wife, Kat, I will not be using Sorcerer as the engine for my By The Stars session on Friday. I’ll be using With Great Power… It will rock. Be ready.
Last week, Kat and I started watching Veronica Mars, Season 2 on DVD that she borrowed from Michele months ago. It was so good we started watching 3-4 episodes at a shot, and finished the season last night. It’s witty, exciting, full of twists, with only the occasional shortcut. Kat tells me Season 1 was … Read more
Five years ago today, Kat and I became parents when Dalys came to live with us full-time. We’re having a little family cake-and-ice-cream kind of party. She gets teased a bit because she gets so many of these throughout the year: her birthday, her move-in day, her name day (the day the adoption became official). … Read more
The Dreamation Master Schedule is up! It seems I’m scheduled to run By The Stars on Friday at 2pm. Problem is, I packed the game up in an unfinished state and forgot to cancel the Dreamation session. I suppose I’ll just run the Sorcerer game I ran at Southern Exposure and hope no one shows. … Read more
Just as a testament to how far off-line I’ve been, I just discovered that Paul Tevis posted my interview at Voice of the Revolution. It doesn’t sound too bad considering that Skype cut out on us at least a dozen times during the recording of it. Luckily, I didn’t spend too much of my 15 … Read more
Forgive me, By The Stars, for I lack the resources to go on. It has been eleven days since my last confession. What do you need to make a create a great role-playing game? What A Designer Needs What I Got Insiration/Passion It comes and it goes, but it’s usually good. Time/Thought Some weeks I … Read more