OMG, I’m feeling the love for Planetary all over again. I’m itching to run a Planetary-like game using Wild Talents. Soooo much….
Month: March 2008
222 years ago
“Blood running in the streets. Mobs of rioters and demonstrators threatening banks and legislatures. Looting of shop and home. Strikes and unemployment. Trade and distribution paralyzed. Shortages of food. Bankruptcies everywhere. Court dockets overloaded. Kidnappings for heavy ransom. Sexual perversion, drunkenness, lawlessness rampant. The wheels of government are clogged, and we are descending into the…
WP upgraded to 2.5
And things seem okay. Still somewhat frustrated that the theme keeps dropping and I’m not aware of any log files/errors. Annoying.
Converting some WatchTower characters to Wild Talents.
Codename: Warhead AKA David Bruce Brandon Appearance: Warhead is an 8 ft tall humanoid suit of armour. Brandon is a slighty overweight man with unkempt brown hair and bushy eyebrows. Background: Dr David Brandon is a robotics engineer. He discovered his electrical generation powers as a teen and quickly started to use it to power…
This doesn’t make any sense
Alpha Flight used to be my hero team of choice but this doesn’t make any sense. How many times must a guy die? Well, they were my favourite Marvel team. My favourite DC team were The Outsiders.
Real Creepy Places
Real Creepy Places is a link for myself. Any self-respecting GM should be able to pastiche one of these into a game.
I get it. Be more concise. Fine.
“Six(1) words(2) can(3) tell(4) a(5) story(6) (while five is too small). Constraints (write without the letter “eâ€; use only one-syllable words; make every sentence exactly N words ) can force me (and you!) out of windbaggery and make certain things possible.” – ABriefMessage It was only recently that I covered Only Six Words To Say…
Portion control
One of the hardest things to manage when GMing a game is portion control. Traditionally we game in the evenings starting at around 7 pm and finishing up around 10 pm or 11 pm. It’s long enough to get something done and relax and make it a social affair. When I gamed in school it…
Wild Talents / ORE
I’ve finally finished reading the system bits of Wild Talents and I do wish I’d read it earlier as it is a pretty solid action system with a lot of crunch and grit. It’s honestly the first time since reading Marvel Super Heroes by TSR that I felt like I could reliably model any power….
It’s my birthday soon….so….
Brooklun Superhero Supply Company Sadly just a graphic. Always wanted to find a thrifty place to get new Anti-Grav Boots. But there is a STORE Here’s the Times article talking about Microtrends. The idea that you can ultra-specialise in something and establish enough of a presence that your store becomes a tourist attraction 🙂 I’d…
All I want for Xmas…
Via Rob:
Theme disappearing
Something is broken with the blog at the moment as my main theme seems to keep vanishing. I think it started when I added the MyTwitter plugin so I’ve disabled it for a while. For updates about me outside of gaming, you can still see my other blog and twitter status on http://cimota.com/blog/
Life on Mars, by Disney
Six short movies (Youtube links) Mars & Beyond 1 of 6 – Man & the Sky and more: Mars & Beyond 2 of 6 – Mars in Pop Culture Mars & Beyond 3 of 6 – History of Life on Earth/Solar System Mars & Beyond 4 of 6 – Mars from Earth Mars & Beyond…
time travel stories
If you like, or are interested in time travel fiction, this is just great. More stories on the site but I thought that one was brilliantly done.
Arthur C. Clarke. RIP.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. Aged 90, he had a good run but will be missed. Wikipedia Link
Project NEMESIS
I recently registered on Project NEMESIS, a web site dedicated to ORE (One Roll Engine) and BRP. BRP (Chaosium’s Basic RolePlaying). Seeing as my gaming group plays nothing but BRP so far (Delta Green, Gaslight, RuneQuest) and we’re potentially starting an ORE game, it seems quite timely.
More on Godlike
I’ve finished reading the book itself and found it quite enjoyable. I do have some issues with the quick proliferation of Talents and would be seeking to limit them myself. I don’t mind them being very powerful (though there seem to be a lot of indestructable ‘mad’ talents out there. The money is still on…
Godlike
During our last game we had some breaks and it was mooted that I might be up for GMing Godlike. (The other option was Cthulhutech but considering that we’ve been playing nothing but Delta Green and Gaslight for the last two years, I could safely give the Mythos a miss for a while.)