There are two rules I adhere to for picking a restaurant that serves cultural cuisine: first, is it actually run by people of that culture, and two, are there people of that culture dining there? I have walked into a Mongolian barbecue run by Mexicans, an Italian place run by Koreans, and an Indian place … Continue reading
Everyone knows that I love “rules-lite” games. I’m far more interested in characters and story than crunchy bits. Everyone knows that I love Call of Cthulhu as a concept, and think the game system was the bomb in the 1980s, but find the rules clunky by modern standards. When Halloween rolls around, I run a … Continue reading
While watching the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon I was thinking about how it managed to be both fun and entirely unlike the actual roleplaying game. This led to some pondering on what people who’ve never played the game but saw the show must assume the game to be like. In turn, this led me … Continue reading
It’s called red salad because it’s got a lot of red stuff in it. Well, technically, purple. This scales really easily, from a dinner for one to half a dozen, but it does require at least a day of prep time. First, hard boil some eggs, one per serving, peel and allow them to cool. … Continue reading
Adventure is finding hole-in-the-wall restaurants and trying them out, no matter how scary the appear on the outside. Sometimes, I go for places because they look a little scary on the outside. Peppers is kinda scary looking. It’s across the street from the New Mexico State Fairground, on San Pedro and Copper in Albuquerque, in … Continue reading
As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in a Starbucks a few doors down from where Wargames West used to be. It was a cool game store, Wargames West, with a huge selection of roleplaying games, board games, and the biggest selection of non-Games Workshop miniatures I’ve ever seen. I’m talking about a big store with … Continue reading
Fritz Leiber was an American fiction writer, primarily known for his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser sword and sorcery series. His first professional sale, in 1939, was a tale of the two anti-heroes, and his last major work prior to his death, The Knight and Knave of Swords, was a Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser … Continue reading
Katie doesn’t like traditional, mayo-heavy macaroni salad. I took up the challenge to devise something that she’d like. It’s pretty easy — just take all of the stuff listed below and toss it together in a big bowl. As with most salads, if you make it the day before and let it sit in the … Continue reading
File this under “seriously, cooking is NOT hard” and “you can eat well for cheap”. This is a tip I got from legendary fantasy illustrator Liz Danforth: make steel-cut oatmeal in a rice cooker, and it comes out perfectly. This makes sense. The whole purpose of a rice cooker is to control proportions of rice, … Continue reading
Laser Ponies is a setting for the QAGS roleplaying system, inspired by 80s cartoons. It attempts to cater to both boys and girls by incorporating elements of rainbows and friendship with action and violence. Hey, they’re ponies that shoot lasers out of their eyes! The reason for this unusual ability is explained in the backstory, … Continue reading
