Playing with Paranoia
A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to be the gamesmaster at a game of Paranoia. I want to tell a story about that game. Let me set up the situation:
Our new form of goverment
A friend of mine recently posted that the incoming administration was going to be a: kleptocracy = government by theft I agreed with the spirit, but disagreed with the specifics. I did a teeny bit of googling, and came up with this term: pseudocracy = government by lies I thought it appropriate, given the statements made by…
Weddings
As part of my duties as High Priest of the Wicca, I've performed wedding ceremonies. My legal authority to do this derives from the Universal Life Church, which makes those marriages "as legal as church on Sunday." The most recent ceremony I performed (in 2013) was for a same-sex couple. Just as it was legal for me…
Rise of the Tomb Raider – Archived review
Somehow, even with all the WoW pet grinding, I managed to find the time to play this game on the PS4. I liked this game better than the previous entry in the series for PS4 (Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition). The previous game "folded" the terrain to make it harder to get from point A to point…
Questions about a gaming convention
I was hanging out with a group of friends on Monday night. We started talking about gaming conventions, what we liked and didn't like about the cons we've been to, how we might do things differently. That got me thinking: Among my gaming friends and connections, we have enough expertise to potentially start a gaming convention of…
Polishing the Storefront
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post on why I removed plastic items from Kickin' Wiccan, my jewelry shop on Shapeways. This post, like the last one, was inspired by the advice I received from the talented artist Vann Godfrey, and what I learned from putting his advice into practice. Shapeways offers 3D printing…
Travel to Eclipse?
I was going to wait a bit before writing this, but I see that lots of folks are putting up posts about the total solar eclipse next year. So now is the time to bring this up. There will be a total eclipse of the sun visible over a portion of the US for the first time…
Biography progress
I interviewed Aidan Kelly yesterday. Check one more name off the list! <lj-cut>I'm still trying to schedule an interview with Orien Laplante. I've let slip my attempts to contact Carolyn Clark, and I haven't even tried to speak with Robin Goodfellow yet. I haven't had much luck on getting PDFs of back issues of Green Egg or…
Shadows of Mordor – Archived review
The gaming magazines labeled this one of the best video games of 2014, and I can see why. It's got a good story, a nice advancement system, and an interesting new mechanic in the form of the nemesis system. The story takes place in the time between the events of the Hobbit and the Lord of the…
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