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Paul Ford is amusing me / reminding me of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jeffwik / reminding me of Ferdinand Klotz, which all three amount to the same thing: If we have a child and the rats do not eat it first I will teach her (or him) to fear Sting.
"Be good," I will say, "or Sting will come with his lute."
"Where does Sting live?" the kid will ask.
"He dances alone in fields of gold. When he sings you fall asleep and die. But if you listen to good music he can never come close. For he is so afraid."
"Does he eat you?"
"No, because he is vegetarian. In Greece he is called Borefeus."
"I hate Sting!" Thanks for all the thoughts on World of Warcraft, by the way. I'm still wrestling with the article (It's hard to summarize 5,000+ years of human play in 1,500 words, go figger!), but you've been a big help. Though I still kind of need a current events hook, and I had NO INTENTION of emboldening you nerds to post gibberish conversations like this. Tags: dungeon majesty, rob explains the interwob
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I was going back and forth on whether this was too flimsy to post at 20x20' Room but it seems TypePad is down today, so that makes my decision easy. (Karma for Six Apart and the pain upgrading MT is currently giving me, heh heh heh--oh wait, this also inconveniences me! Damn you, Six Apart! Now watch my LJ implode.) Primetime Adventures players take note! And see if you can follow along: The title story in Kelly Link’s new collection, Magic for Beginners, is about (I’m quoting a review in The Believer) “a TV show called The Library, a teen drama whose cute, hormonal, conspicuously quotable friends are devoted fans of a TV show called The Library, a paranormal, ass-kicking series of mysterious provenance that pops up without warning at ungodly hours on random cable stations. … The hero, Jeremy, is a sentient TV character, obsessed with Fox, a character on the show within the show within the story, who turns out to be real.” A show within a show within a story, eh? If this is anybody but Jorge Luis Borges…I’m thinking of taking Primetime Adventures with me to Florida over the holidays, where I’ll be with most of my family. They’re a mix of non-RPGers and long-ago-RPGers, but I might be able to get them to give it a whirl. (We typically play a lot of board games when we all get together, but bulky board games will be a hassle to lug down to the Sunshine State on a pre-Xmas post-Patriot Act plane.) Anyone reading this ever tried PTA with a group of non-gamers? Or does anyone have alternate suggestions of easy-to-transport board/card games or newbie-friendly one-shot RPGs? See, my subject line is like an answer to the "Central Question" at the top of the Believer review, and there's this old joke, and...Tags: books, clan robotnik, dungeon majesty, gaming, in which somebody steals somebody's bit
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I'd better skip ahead a bit, brother: yesterday was eaten up by moving stuff, and my desktop gets packed up tomorrow, and everything else gets packed up Thursday, and then we're in limbo for two weeks and I don't know how much I'll be online.  My 2001 entry was going to be about moving to JP, and the night my car was stolen and we were inexplicably traumatized by a little girl jive-dancing on the subway, coming back from a fancy dinner we couldn't afford. By extension, it was going to be about class and race in America and coming to terms with all that. Though I could have also talked about giving up finger-quotes for Lisa, or getting traction on the dissertation, or the time these dudes flew a couple of planes into some buildings. And then 2002 was all about weddings, ours and the seven others we went to that year. But some of you have been waiting patiently for me to get to gaming, and since it's half of what we talk about around here, I've got to cover it. I just don't know how to do it justice. ( Big pile of gaming memories behind the cut. )Yeah, you probably had to be there. But if you were there, thanks. Because we were there together. Tags: best of, boston, boston 7, dungeon majesty, gaming, love warrants a post, nostalgia, owlbears, red madness, unknown usa
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Dungeon Majesty has now wrapped, which most of you already know, but I haven’t mentioned it here myself yet, so now I have. Such a happy experiment! Thanks again to all the players and the tiny, slightly demented fan base too. And now jeffwik’s AmericanBabe game has begun, and mgrasso says he’s finally really for true no fooling going to run Dogs in the Delta… You know all the ribbing we do around here of the cutting-edge, Secret Door, indie-gaming scene? My friends, we are the cutting-edge indie-gaming scene. We mock what we become, I guess. And vice versa. I cannot count how many times I have found that to be true. ( What does everyone love more than posts about gaming? Posts about SCHEDULING gaming! )Also: I’m going to take Jeremiah out to lunch for his birthday on Thursday. Time & Place TBA: Jere, do you have any requests? Anyone else who can make it to Central Square over their lunch hour and wants to come with should pipe up too. Tags: battle without honor or humanity, dungeon majesty, gaming
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Fun planning session tonight for Dungeon Majesty with bryant, peaseblossom, jeffwik, and mgrasso. Planning sessions are always fun with this group, actually. (By "this group" I mean the whole extended group—you know who you are—not just the five of us that happened to be there.) Maybe we should hang out more without necessarily gaming. Or without gaming but with a point-form agenda. And double strength Canadian beer. No no no, I'm actually really looking forward to the game. I should say, tonight was fun until Bryant made Jeff cry by calling him a spotlight hog and then made me cry by saying I didn't post to The 20' By 20' Room enough. Actually, I said that I didn't post to 20'x20' enough, but Bryant agreed really quickly and vehemently. He's a big meanie. :) And then we had the Forge pro/con discussion that, Jeff helpfully pointed out, we've had a hundred times before. So I did a quick scan of 20'x20's one year history to see how badly I suck. The answer is: pretty badly, though not more than anyone other than Bryant and Ginger by any great orders of magnitude. I've posted ten times to the Room. My rough count says Bryant has done about 85 posts, and Ginger about 40. (nb: Bryant is crazy.) Neel and Jim are each around 20, Emily and Jere 14 or 15, the three new guys and somebody named "the Ghoul" have 2 or 3, Ryan has 1, and there are four or five members who have never posted. But I give myself extra points for naming the room, for making long meaty posts, for commenting all the time, for the really long post about Mountain Witch on the Forge, and for the six or seven unfinished posts I have on my hard drive. They're awesome. Edit: Make that eleven times. Shame is a great motivator. Tags: dungeon majesty, gaming
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