Long Time Off

Well, Its been kind of a while. I don't expect anybody much noticed (the site traffic is what mathematics calls "null" as far as I can tell) and thats my fault. I should be updating regularly if I want people to visit. Well, here's my update.

The last episode, I had just started this semester. It was a long and hectic weekend. I thought it would end. Nope. I've been working my ass off this semester, with hardly enough time to accomplish what I have been, which is almost as much as I need to.

PointCon 007 was largely a success. I ran my usual Shirow game, set in the Realm, and I ran a SilCore game I called Seven Deadly Sins, set in victorian england.

I also ran the LARP, which was a Spycraft Lite sort of thing, card based, using 1d20 as the mechanic. It was pretty intense fun for everyone, though it was definitely high tension most of the time.

Here's something I'm banging together just to keep myself occupied and get my mind out of exodia for a few minutes before I get back to writing. Its a story starter that can work in any pseudo-historical setting, as well as science fiction.

This is never easy. Hardly anybody ever believes me. Its just too insane for people to imagine.
I’ve seen wars like no man alive. I participated in Desert Storm and Desert Shield. I was in Viet Nam. I sniped at Stalingrad. I was a confederate. I killed men for Richard the Lionhearted, Charlemagne, the first Emperor of Japan. I wore the armor of the Byzantines, the Romans, the Minoans.
I shed blood before they invented metal weapons.
I used my bare hands to hunt food in Africa.

I fill in the “other” circle on job applications.

That movie with Tom Cruise… Interview with a Vampire. I liked that one.

Some people call me Adam. Or Cain. Much older than that.

I am protean. I change. I evolve. I adapt.

I thought I was the last one when I buried my friend in the middle ages. But the others are like me. And I’ve never noticed them until now.

Also, some news on Exodia: The Realm.
*I'm considering changing the name of the Campaign setting book. I'm not sure I can, or would want to share the name of a potent Yu Gi Oh card.
*Volk convinced me (passively) to include a few new basic classes in the book. So far, they are the skyblade and the Arcaster. I'm thinking about a third, probably rogue area type.
*Drawings for the races have come along mostly in good form. I'm almost half way done with them all, and I'll be done by the end of the semester.