Archive for March, 2010

One of the shows that I miss watching when it airs is The Closer on TNT. I’m not really sure of the exact reason but I enjoy watching it so very much. We have the first four season on DVD and I think I’m going to spend a ridiculous amount of time re-watching them. Before… »

Our Friday night roleplaying group is starting a game of Diaspora soon. Coincidentally, VSCA, the publishers of Diaspora, just released the game in PDF the other day. Now, I’ve already got the game in hardcover but having it in PDF would be a nice convenience. I’m not sure it would be a convenience worth $13,… »

Most of my weekends really start on Thursday nights. On Thursdays, I drive to Rockford to play board-games with a group of folks from the area. Mostly, we play a wide array of Euro games. Last week we played Agricola and Nottingham. We were down a few players but we still had a good time…. »

For those who may be wondering, the mechanical RPG system bits that I’ve been posting are more for my own benefit  than for yours. If figured the blog was as good a repository, if not better, than anywhere else to store these ideas for later use. Also, I’m working on writing down ideas as they… »

During character creation, the first three phases are required. They get your character into the office with the rest of the team. The last two phases of character creation are optional. If you choose to pass on both phases, then your character is still relatively inexperienced. She’s been on the beat but working investigations is… »

I’ve been feeling less focused than usual the last few days and I’m not sure if it’s just being tired or whether it’s something else. Sustained writing has been difficult enough that I wasn’t able to get out an issue of my company newsletter this weekend. I spent three days on it! Usually I only… »

If your character already has a Vice, at the end of a case you can forgo your Resolve roll and give in. You still get a tick on your character’s Vice track but by giving in you also recover 1 tick of Toughness stress and 1 tick of Resolve stress. If the new tick on… »

Protecting the streets is stressful, it wears you down. Eventually, you need to relax. You need to find something that takes away the pain from the street. You need vice. Examples: gambling, drinking, danger, sex Mechanics: At the end of each case, make a Resolve check. If you fail, your character finds a Vice. Roll… »

[This is a gadget post.] For quite some time I’ve wanted an ebook reader. There are a number of reasons for this mostly to do with neophilia and the sheer number of PDFs that I own. Having a portable device that I can read those files on, rather than printing them out and binding them… »

Seriously. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9K4BKkLaCI I’d embed it if I could. Be… »