Oops.

My Urban Dead character just fried a zombie at a revive point. In his defense however he A - didn't notice until afterwards the graffiti stating it was a revive point, B - that it was a church and thus fell under the sacred ground policy, and C - There was a survivor with a mere 12 hits left and the zombie in question was flagged as Cortex Damaged on his DNA scan (of course later I checked the profile and see that despite having taken Brain Rot the guy wants to be revived. Ah, buddy, you can't get that at a run of the mill revive point, only powered NecroTech facilities can give you that. Good luck having anyone lower the barricades for you too.

Um. Oops. I did use a first aid kit on that 12-pointer survivor. Of course a check on that guy's profile shows a heavy load of zombie rather than survivor skills.

But I think my guy shall avoid that neighborhood for a while...

Oops?

"I'm an Innocent Sweetheart!"




"People say that I'm too young to pilot an ANIMa, but I just want to do my best... for everyone!"



Personality: As an Innocent Sweetheart, you're the youngest pilot, under-trained and inexperienced. But you make up for it with a heart of gold and an energetic spirit that just won't quit. Although most people don't have a lot of confidence in you, who can help but catch your infectious enthusiasm?

Advice: Believe in yourself more. You can do anything you set your mind to as long as you don't let your self-doubt get in the way. Your greatest asset is the trust that others hold in you, so never forget your friends and loved ones. At the same time, it might pay to be more realistic in your view of the world.

Which Bliss Stage Pilot are you?
Bliss Stage



Now if only these quizzes would have an option to have the picture match your gender...

Heh, just came across a post where I was snarky to one of TSR's netreps. Fortunately he took it in good humor (or at least posted like he did).

Then again 90's TSR needed to be snarked at. When I think about the money and effort they put into games they had to know they were dooming from the start -- Such as the entire Amazing Engine line. Where they pretty much told everyone up front, "Nothing in this line will have any support beyond articles in Dragon Magazine, and then that plural is only if we are feeling nice." How about just pouring lighter fluid on the drafts of the books and burning them in front of the authors, that might have almost been kinder than to say, "Hey, we're going to put your work out in a line where we are shooting each game in the foot. Would you rather have your work shot in the right foot or the left foot? Never mind, we're using a shotgun so it will get bother feet anyway. And the legs. Probably a little in the gut too..."

I would have loved to have seen some sort of second edition of Amazing Engine, it had some interesting ideas (such as the core character/setting character split).

I may be crazy, but at least I can say I am still sane. I just passed up an opportunity to download FATAL. The review of FATAL (WARNING! Even the review is not even close to being work safe!) is already SANity draining. I suspect a character in a Call of Cthulhu game given a choice between playing FATAL and facing all the elder gods simultaneously, would view the later choice as the mercifully quick and painless end.

You read that subject line right, there is an RPG being made about the various -tans. You create your own cute little mascot character and send her through cheerfully odd and possibly sanity reducing adventures.

I'm going to get a copy printed by the next THEM meeting since this really needs to be tried out at a reconvene. :} I mean really, an RPG that suggests Dragon Half, Excel Saga, Kodocha and Yotsubato as good things to turn to for inspiration sounds like a good THEM game. And of course there's the matter of it's using rock-paper-scissors instead of dice (sure, some LARPS do that, but how many pen & paper RPGs?).

Has the Lord High's axe been seen recently? Perhaps it became...

Axe-tan
Girl Type: Dungeon-Punk Catgirl
Athletics: 3
Cuteness: 4
Determination: 1 (Poor girl can't make up her mind who should be Lord-High)
Smarts: 2

Gimmics: Catgirl, Transformation (into the Lord High's axe), Special Attack: Shush of Doom!
Popularity: 1

Looks: Axe-tan is a short gray haired girl with a spiky collar (with a spiked bell), pink chainmail bikini, no less than three leather belts at any one time, and studded pink leather cat's paw boots and gloves.

Thoughts: EEEEEE! Someone's talking during the meeting nya! Oh. Never mind nya. SIG report. Someone else it talking! Nya! Quick, hit him! Hit him!

Popularity: 1

Just read an weblog entry about an RPG in development called Bliss Stage. Looks interesting. I don't think I would want to do a frequent and long campaign, but as an occasional change of flavor it could be fun.

Ah, here's an RPG.net post about Bliss Stage with a description of the setting.

$1000 in unmarked electrons has been delivered to Greg Stolze via fundable.org. Now the poor innocent game Executive Decision can be freed from captivity. Soon, soon the Executive Decision page will hopefully include a download link.

For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, Greg was using the ransom model of project funding to raise money for disaster relief. The ransom model is fairly simple. Someone has something such as a game that simulates internal white house politics. They decide how much they need to make creating and distributing it worth their time. When that much is raised and handed over, the product is made freely available. An interesting way of sidestepping the piracy issue.

I've been having fun reading the archives of Aleae Iaciens, where LJer edg is developing a Cowboys in Space SF role playing game. One of the interesting twists is that rather than using dice as the element of random chance, the player(s) and referee face off with cards using a modified version of Texas Hold'em that edg is calling Baltimore Hold'em.

The setting involves an abandoned colony world, the decendant organization of the abandoning government's security agency, and the remnants of the failed first colonization attempt. All these groups struggling to survive and prosper when the colony wasn't intended to be self sufficient, and the effects of the terraforming efforts start breaking down.

The flavor seems something in the family of Trigun or Galaxy Rangers.

(Now I shall hope that in the morning I don't find myself once again wishing I could lock out post-midnight posting attempts.)