Archive for July 2009

The Black Hole: A Slipstream Adventure

The entrance to the Savage Worlds setting of Slipstream is via a black hole, so I got a wild hair to rent Disney’s 1979 turkey, The Black Hole. I saw this flick in the theater when it was first released and didn’t like it, and I hadn’t seen it again since. Thirty years later, I … Continue reading »

Salad

A habit I have is making a ton of something and then eating the same thing for several days in a row. Hey, if it tastes great, I’ll eat it again, and usually it’s all gone before I start getting sick of it. I mention this because someone I know, for some reason, bought a … Continue reading »

Beyond Old School/New School

With no disrespect intended toward anyone, I’m about as tired of discussion about what “Old School” means and debating the fine points of “Old School” versus “New School” and “Edition Wars” as I am with any conversation (or flame war) about G/N/S Theory. This will, hopefully, be my last word on the topic. My view … Continue reading »

Shemping Player Characters: Followup

As a continuation of this post, I went to the game session last night prepared to create a character. I brought along my three personality shemps, and my list of names. It turned out we were creating characters for a different playtest than I thought (this is a little think-tank group created specifically to playtest … Continue reading »

Shemping Player Characters

There’s a good chance I’ll be playtesting an as-yet-unannounced game tonight. I can’t say anything yet, but it will be using an established system and it will be a contemporary setting. I know the base system, although I don’t know what modifications will be made to fit the setting, or what specific types of characters … Continue reading »

RPG Blog Carnival: D&D and I, Part 2

The topic of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, hosted by 6d6 Fireball, is D&D. A pretty broad topic, considering that the majority of RPG Bloggers write almost exclusively about D&D all day, every day. To drill down a bit, the topic has been divided into four themes. Today, I’m going to tackle one of those … Continue reading »

RPG Blog Carnival: D&D and I, Part 2

The topic of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, hosted by 6d6 Fireball, is D&D. A pretty broad topic, considering that the majority of RPG Bloggers write almost exclusively about D&D all day, every day. To drill down a bit, the topic has been divided into four themes. Today, I’m going to tackle one of those … Continue reading »

RPG Blog Carnival: D&D and I, Part 1

The topic of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, hosted by 6d6 Fireball, is D&D. A pretty broad topic, considering that the majority of RPG Bloggers write almost exclusively about D&D all day, every day. To drill down a bit, the topic has been divided into four themes. Today, I’m going to tackle one of those … Continue reading »

RPG Blog Carnival: D&D and I, Part 1

The topic of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, hosted by 6d6 Fireball, is D&D. A pretty broad topic, considering that the majority of RPG Bloggers write almost exclusively about D&D all day, every day. To drill down a bit, the topic has been divided into four themes. Today, I’m going to tackle one of those … Continue reading »

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