More Owlbear

[robotnik2004]

I don't think there will be many people reading this who are (a) gamers and (b) not already aware of Claw/Claw/Peck, head58's groovy new gaming blog, but it occurs to me there are a few.

(For instance: Ephemeral Circus, meet athenalindia and theclevermonkey--I've been gaming with them (among others) in London, at least until I had a baby and completely marooned our post-apocalypse Deadlands campaign at an excruciating cliffhanger; athenalindia  and theclevermonkey , meet the Boston circus (among others)--sorry for being AWOL so long.)

Claw/Claw is off to a nice start, with an admirable focus on praxis, both in the sense of "actual practical application" and also in the sense that that's the name of  one of editswlonghair's Agon hacks. So far I have contributed three Alternate Alpha Complexes, which isn't especially praxis-y, but hey, that's how we do.

(I think at one point the excellent Allen Varney and his merry band of traitors were working on a book of alternate worlds for PARANOIA, which is the sort of thing that could bring even me out of lurktirement. But I don't know what ever came of it. My understanding is that PARANOIA is now the work of one in-house writer, so Allen and the traitors' more glorious schemes have probably been shelved.)

Does the world need a new gaming blog? Perhaps not, but I'm more interested in what these particular guys have to say about gaming than I am in 90% of the gaming pundits out there. Plus the most recent post gives me credit for inventing the flashback, so I'm digging it.

Comments

I've got a fever, and the only cure is more owlbear!

[head58.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've never been much for theory over practice. I can't read the Forge for more than 20 minutes without blood coming out of my nose.

But thanks for the plug, and thanks for posting those Alpha Complexes. I want to post more setting ideas myself but haven't had many of late.

Re: I've got a fever, and the only cure is more owlbear!

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Thank you for having me!

(I noticed in trying to link to all 3 Alphas that I misunderstood the difference between tags and categories. I moved them to "Homebrew" but there could maybe stand to be a Settings or Mashups or GILT category.)

Re: I've got a fever, and the only cure is more owlbear!

[head58.livejournal.com]

I'm not really happy with the way Tags/Categories work at all, and not really clear on how they are different in wordpress's mind, but I'll definitely add GILT, yeah!

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Plus the most recent post gives me credit for inventing the flashback, so I'm digging it.

Hmm, I'm reminded of jokes about stealing acts and the such.

Anyway, I owe you (and everyone else) an email about some potential skyope Pantellos now that Bryant has departed for Maryland.

[bryant]

Oh excellent.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

The standard terminology is "stealing my bit". :)

re: Skype: Interesting...

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

You were lucky my comment wasn't a mish-mash of weirdly strung together letters and you expect me to get my references right? Darn professors.

[adamdray.livejournal.com]

I syndicated the feed. Add clawclawpeckrss to your friends list to read Claw/Claw/Peck via LJ.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Claw/Claw/Peckers is an entirely different blog.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Also, for the record, I'm very very sorry for that.

[adamdray.livejournal.com]

You are not.

[head58.livejournal.com]

My reputation precedes me, apparently.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

The third one's my favorite. Not surprisingly.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Also? I want that t-shirt.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I kinda do too.

[shiffer.livejournal.com]

Everyone wants that shirt.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Cafepress could make it happen.

I Photoshopped that a few years ago when owlbears were all the rage at Story Games. I got a stern lecture from someone there about IP law and how I was stealing food from the mouths of David C. Sutherland's babies.

[shiffer.livejournal.com]

Cafepress sucks at international shipping, or I'd have a lot of hip-yet-disposable T-shirts already.

The less said of Story Games the better. Not for nothing I don't go near the place anymore.

[athenalindia.livejournal.com]

No real guilt here, because babystuff takes precedence, of course, but I've been spending lots of time trying to figure out under what conditions I would allow a nuclear attack to take place.

We need to play again! Plus, the longer we give Bill to plot, the worse it will probably be....

Hello, Boston Circus!