Posts Tagged ‘star wars d20’
The Passion Of The Games Master
The Star Wars game has turned and turned again, settling on a point where the player characters have had a job go off smoothly (K was shocked, to the point where he almost shut down in sheer terror, the laws of reality having obviously been compromised in some fashion) and can potter around for a few months doing strictly legal work while they wait for the Imperial heat to die down a bit.
That means I’m up for the GMmin’ seat next, so the Goblins! are lined up to explore the industrial hellhole that five years of war have made of their city. It also means, alas, that my usual excuse of “it’s not my game, I just provide the house” no longer applies, and I have to herd the various cats together in order to actually get a session going with people in the same room as me.
Of Style, Gnomes and Robots
It’s a good job this isn’t one of those “this is the Hobby I have done this week” blogs or I’d be kicking myself about falling behind right now. It’s been a busy few weeks up at the Castle von Von, you see. For one thing, I appear to been given something by arabianknight, and it’s not a hot tip on where to score secondhand gaming material in Scotland either.
Apparently this obliges me to a) reveal seven facts about the wizard behind the curtain of GAME OVER and b) nominate some other people to pass it on to. I’ll pick seven, for consistency’s sake, and because it’s a good, honest number, from which sensible probabilities can be derived and symbolic resonances extrapolated.
- I always wanted to design robots when I grew up.
- Instead of designing robots, I ended up publishing short stories about them, as well as a few poems here and there (not about robots).
- According to the electronic careers master that we all had to consult at my school, I am ideally suited to a career in the diplomatic service.
- I have never collected a loyalist Space Marine army. Ever.
- I haven’t owned a television since the second year of university, when I threw mine out of a window because it made me cross.
- There are whole swathes of geek culture that I would quite happily throw out of a window, given the opportunity (most comics, all 80s cartoons, and the Tolkienian fantasy template for starters).
- My user icon is not quite drawn from life, but it’s close:
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| Goth as fuck, ne? |
And now, the nominations:
- For writing an occasionally very moving and regularly amusing set of character blogs: Ratshag
- For doing everything she does: Loquacious
- For a unique and inspired take on the mechancis of D&D, an excellent novel-in-progress, and a general tendency to take ideas and frolic over the farthest horizon with them: Erin Palette
- For superb insights into the nature of D&D and the roleplaying practice and industry: Oddysey
- For being from the Black Country, and having excellent taste in old-schoolery: Coopdevil
- For superb insights into every game system he touches and extremely useful newbies’ guides: pointyman
- For bad puns, doing the Four Gamers thing right, and starting out a new system very sensibly: the lads at Western Immoren Economy Tours
Right, now back to the gaming stuff.
