A Bad Start
It happens sometimes–something hits me early in the day that throws me off balance and derails everything I’m trying to do, so I can’t get started. It just happens that today was a rather bad day for it to happen. I had…
Almost Nothing, Much
After I posted yesterday’s Blogless Lepolt entry, I decided to finish the page of materials by Eric Ashley–not that I used many of his links, but that I got him linked. I posted the new pages, so if you visit the…
An Open Invitation
I’m running very late tonight, and still have running to do. That trip to take my mother-in-law to the bank yesterday had to be done today, and then got extended with an extra hour north (and that through traffic) to…
Current Projects
I’m working on a slew of different settings. For Cthulu Aventus, I’m putting together ‘Mountain Home’ which is a setting, a short adventure, and some adventure seeds. Its over seven thousand words now. I’m struggling…
Death of a Character
This actually is not a gamer topic; it’s just a gamer title. The character is not imaginary, but neither is it someone over whom you ought to shed any tears. I will not be asking for a moment of silence. My wife is an…
Did Anyone Get the Number of That Alarm Clock?
I don’t suspect that I would get much sympathy for having my alarm ring before eight this morning. That’s just not early by most standards, and even if I observe that it was after midnight that I got back from the long…
Finishing the Wrong Project
The next book in my independently-published Christian book series is tentatively entitled Do You Trust Me?. I had started it in parallel with the current Quick Word radio show series on faith, but the two lines had…
General Effects Roll 7
I just got off the phone with our printer. It seems that recently Multiverser has been showing up as “out of print” on book dealer web sites. At first I thought it was the standard industry nonsense–if your friendly…
Incentivized Writing
I was done early enough last night that I was able to turn my attention to one of the other important tasks, and make a fair amount of headway. Working from a partial, I was able to complete a chapter of the forthcoming…
Isle of the Mighty
The Isle of the Mighty in the Cyrston Sea is a huge island running two-fifths of the length of the sea, or slightly over a hundred Brehon Miles. Its about fifty Westing Great Yards wide (its traditional to measure north…
Kapow!
The big deal, if there is a big deal today, is that last night I completed the recoding of the Martial Arts in Role Playing Games site, and managed to post it on my web site, available to all. I expect to add a new…
McCallister’s Basic World Creation Matrix
Disasters d20 1.Storm(s) 2.Monster(s)* 3.Earthquakes 4.Political Upheaval 5.Cosmic Imbalance 6.Invasion* 7.Zombies/Undead 8.Machine backlash 9.Purist Good dies/is dying 10.Warp(s) 11.Major Crash 12.Important Artifacts:…
Monied Types
Shekel of silver is about one-third of an ounce. Barter chits for types with sixteen differenent chits. Rings of silver as a way to carry larger amounts of cash. Copper, tin, lead, and barley (the last is small…
Odd but Not Bad
Last night I took my Romans editing with me when I ran my last errand of the evening, and got a bit of that done. I also brought the addresses of two of those people who reviewed the last book, and a couple of…
Roles
This is some speculation on how to create a near-future or next century SF world with psi powers used to solve a pschyological problem for a group for the game Multiverser(r). I was reading Dream Thief by Stephen…
Rules of Romance for RPG’s–Rough Draft
This is an attempt to gather up some ideas for a How-to article on How too run a romance in an RPG. I’m specifically going to be mentioning two Multiverser characters, and versers, that is player characters. It will…
Schedule? What Schedule?
It was actually quarter after five this morning when I shut down the lights and went to sleep for forty-five minutes before rousting myself to launch the boy onto the bus–and he had more trouble awakening than I, I…
Spammers, Beware!
I just came from my e-mail, where I found a very kind letter from our Gaming Outpost site administrator informing me that I have been promoted: I now have the power to smite Spam posts on articles I did not write, in…
There’s Always Something To Do
Last night I got clear of the regular work, but was too tired to delve into any serious writing. My schedule has been hard on me, having me up early and to bed late and trying to make up for it with a nap in the middle,…
Two Bad Ideas
I’ve begun The Templar Legacy which is yet another of the Da Vinci Code style books. And it occurs to me that flipping this attempt at subversion around would be a good idea. Such books tend to start in the Middle Ages…
Veteran of Foreign Care
The houseguest who was hospitalized a few days ago came home today, on his own birthday. His birthday gifts include a large pillow. Let me say that I am pleased at his return quite apart from the fact that it should…