Reminder to my playtesters…

…8:30 PM Eastern Google Hangout BubbleGUMSHOE playtest tonight. Also, it’s going to be a bit of a proof of concept for video roleplaying for me generally: if it turns out that I don’t have a problem with the format, I might consider running an online game session or two.  Might. There’s the problem of regular game dates to consider.

The Honorverse’s Shadow of Victory ARC FINALLY drops…

…and it’s about dang time.  I’ve only been waiting and whining about it for, what, a couple of months now?  Anyway, it’s up, and… God only knows when I’ll be able to get around to reading it.  The next two days are booked solid.

Still, Shadow of Victory is finally up. Thank God. I need to know what happens next.

Creature Seed: Junkyard Spirits.

Junkyard Spirits

These creatures are a cross between nature and urban spirits; like the former, they are territorial, able to possess their surroundings, and have magic associated with their ‘element.’ And like the latter, they are essentially comfortable around humanity (note: not necessarily ‘nice’), able to use technology, and growing more and more corporeal every decade. At current rates, Junkyard Spirits will make the jump to an actual physical species within one hundred years. Continue reading Creature Seed: Junkyard Spirits.

So, hey, Fallout Nuka World is dropping.

This is not exactly the best time in the month for that, because I have deadlines over the next two days – but, hey, who asked me?  …Then again, this DLC is likely to interfere with my usual Queen of the Girl Scouts play style, so I may be not as involved. I do have to remind myself that there are people who missed the old karma system from Fallout 3

 

[UPDATE] I may end up getting something up my nose over the entire slave collar thing. I have a problem with stuff like that.

Item seed: Phone Booths.

Blame this.

Phone Booths

On June 8, 2014, working phone booths mystically became rare enough to be worth using in magical rituals.  Why that date?  Nobody knows, actually.  Magic is not yet science; there’s a certain amount of built-in uncertainty about the whole thing. If you could reliably write it out as an equation, it’d stop being magic and start being a particularly obscure branch of physics. The later registration with the Smithsonian of a working phone booth in the National Register of Historic Places had nothing to do with this directly, although that symbolic act certainly locked down some things. Continue reading Item seed: Phone Booths.

HOT LAVA the videogame.

Every so often, a videogame designer will stop, blink a few times, and realize Hey. I’m, like, an adult now – and I still want to make a game where you have to run around the room only never touching the ground because the floor is actually lava.  …This is a good thing. Because yeah, I’d probably play this:

I’d pretend to be playing it ironically, but I wouldn’t be playing it ironically.  I’d probably have to play it at night, though. God help me if my kids ever see this game…