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robotnik2004Dungeon Majesty has now wrapped, which most of you already know, but I haven’t mentioned it here myself yet, so now I have. Such a happy experiment! Thanks again to all the players and the tiny, slightly demented fan base too. And now ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jeffwik’s AmericanBabe game has begun, and mgrasso says he’s finally really for true no fooling going to run Dogs in the Delta… You know all the ribbing we do around here of the cutting-edge, Secret Door, indie-gaming scene? My friends, we are the cutting-edge indie-gaming scene. We mock what we become, I guess. And vice versa. I cannot count how many times I have found that to be true.
I’ve been putting off making hard decisions about how much gaming I can get in before I move, but obviously some triage will be involved. Note that I’m not asking everyone or anyone to bend to my schedule. I know you all have busy lives too. I’m just doing my planning out loud so you have a sense of where I'm at and I can make the most out of the time I have left. My best guess is that we’ll be leaving some time in July. So that’s three more months in Boston but not much more. This is what my gaming dance card looks like for those months.
As a player: Airportation is supposed to be five sessions long, every other week. Delta Dogs is probably something similar. Kayfabe Confidential and Crisis on Infinite Weirdotrons, or whatever we’re currently calling the game of pulpy pulp and head58y goodness, have also been proposed, though I don’t know if they’re seriously pending or not. All four of those are, it occurs to me, riffs on my Xmas GILT suggestions, which is hugely flattering if more than a little intimidating. Since I not only feel obliged to play, but also to be a great player (which I actually am not). Plus I’ve gotten kind invitations to drop in on Tantanae (unless that invite was withdrawn when they got a 6th player—I know I stopped getting emails about it) and in Newbury Agency (if it restarts). And no doubt there’s something else I’m forgetting right now, plus some insanely cool idea one of you is going to have in the middle of next week.
Thing is, I can really only happily game one night a week. More than that and I miss my wife, I have to negotiate for the car, it cuts into other socializing, plus there’s piles of stuff that has to be done around the house for the move and yadda yadda yadda. So I ask for patience with my schedule. It would be great if we could get Airportation and Dogs on alternate weeks. And you know, if they got shaved down from five or six sessions each to three or four, well, that would be doing me a solid, too. (Or, I suppose, if I just shaved down my participation, but I don’t know if that’s less or more fair.) I know I’d also enjoy playing in Kayfabe or Crisis or Tantanae, but if they don’t happen right away, that’s OK too. I’d probably be equally happy to spend the equivalent time just hanging out with all y’all. I hear great things about this “socializing” and “not gaming” and “drinking” that some among you speak of. Jess even says it turns people into better friends! (Tangent: All the times this past fall and winter I’ve tried to be there formgrasso, be supportive and share all my hard-won wisdom (tongue is in cheek right there), and he tells me last night the only thing he really needed was to get drunk and talk about sex with peaseblossom and head58. Go figure.)
As a GM: Then the other question is whether there’s time and space on the calendar for me to run anything else before I go. And whether there’s interest and space in enough other people’s schedule to make a game. As a love letter to graph paper and orc-bashing and all the good times, Dungeon Majesty does make a pretty suitable swan song, but I do still have game ideas in me. You know I’m an addict just like all of you.
If I was going to run one more game in the next three months, the one I’d be most excited to do would be Battle Without Honor or Humanity, the wuxia Charnel Gods game I’ve been talking about forever. If there was player interest (and I guess one point of this post is to ask: is there?) and if we did decide we had time to do it, I’d whip up the requisite teaser text to get people in the mood, but I expect you can all picture it anyway: High-flying martial arts sword and sorcery horror. Hero / House of Flying Daggers type inspirations, sure, but really more crazy bloody Shaw Brothers / Tsui Hark style stuff. Plus huge gibbering demon things. NC-17 Exalted, if you like.
It’s the anti-Dungeon Majesty, come to think of it. Because (and you all understand that I loved Dungeon Majesty, totally dug it, but) I kinda crave a game filled with combat. Not just combat, even, but cruelty, butchery, and gore. A game where nobody hugs, everyone is bad-ass, and there is very little chance of a tear-jerking montage about all the good times they’ve shared together. The system would be Sorcerer & Sword, naturally, which seemed like such a way out crazy system when I started thinking about this game eighteen months ago, but which now seems downright traditional in many ways, with players who say what their PC does, and a GM who says what the bad guys do, and no narration by committee, and big heaping fistfuls of dice to roll at every turn. ...Man, I’ve almost talked myself into it. But the moving! And the scheduling! And the hey hey hey! I dunno. More to come.
Also: I’m going to take Jeremiah out to lunch for his birthday on Thursday. Time & Place TBA: Jere, do you have any requests? Anyone else who can make it to Central Square over their lunch hour and wants to come with should pipe up too.
jeffwik’s AmericanBabe game has begun, and mgrasso says he’s finally really for true no fooling going to run Dogs in the Delta… You know all the ribbing we do around here of the cutting-edge, Secret Door, indie-gaming scene? My friends, we are the cutting-edge indie-gaming scene. We mock what we become, I guess. And vice versa. I cannot count how many times I have found that to be true.I’ve been putting off making hard decisions about how much gaming I can get in before I move, but obviously some triage will be involved. Note that I’m not asking everyone or anyone to bend to my schedule. I know you all have busy lives too. I’m just doing my planning out loud so you have a sense of where I'm at and I can make the most out of the time I have left. My best guess is that we’ll be leaving some time in July. So that’s three more months in Boston but not much more. This is what my gaming dance card looks like for those months.
As a player: Airportation is supposed to be five sessions long, every other week. Delta Dogs is probably something similar. Kayfabe Confidential and Crisis on Infinite Weirdotrons, or whatever we’re currently calling the game of pulpy pulp and head58y goodness, have also been proposed, though I don’t know if they’re seriously pending or not. All four of those are, it occurs to me, riffs on my Xmas GILT suggestions, which is hugely flattering if more than a little intimidating. Since I not only feel obliged to play, but also to be a great player (which I actually am not). Plus I’ve gotten kind invitations to drop in on Tantanae (unless that invite was withdrawn when they got a 6th player—I know I stopped getting emails about it) and in Newbury Agency (if it restarts). And no doubt there’s something else I’m forgetting right now, plus some insanely cool idea one of you is going to have in the middle of next week.
Thing is, I can really only happily game one night a week. More than that and I miss my wife, I have to negotiate for the car, it cuts into other socializing, plus there’s piles of stuff that has to be done around the house for the move and yadda yadda yadda. So I ask for patience with my schedule. It would be great if we could get Airportation and Dogs on alternate weeks. And you know, if they got shaved down from five or six sessions each to three or four, well, that would be doing me a solid, too. (Or, I suppose, if I just shaved down my participation, but I don’t know if that’s less or more fair.) I know I’d also enjoy playing in Kayfabe or Crisis or Tantanae, but if they don’t happen right away, that’s OK too. I’d probably be equally happy to spend the equivalent time just hanging out with all y’all. I hear great things about this “socializing” and “not gaming” and “drinking” that some among you speak of. Jess even says it turns people into better friends! (Tangent: All the times this past fall and winter I’ve tried to be there for
mgrasso, be supportive and share all my hard-won wisdom (tongue is in cheek right there), and he tells me last night the only thing he really needed was to get drunk and talk about sex with peaseblossom and head58. Go figure.)As a GM: Then the other question is whether there’s time and space on the calendar for me to run anything else before I go. And whether there’s interest and space in enough other people’s schedule to make a game. As a love letter to graph paper and orc-bashing and all the good times, Dungeon Majesty does make a pretty suitable swan song, but I do still have game ideas in me. You know I’m an addict just like all of you.
If I was going to run one more game in the next three months, the one I’d be most excited to do would be Battle Without Honor or Humanity, the wuxia Charnel Gods game I’ve been talking about forever. If there was player interest (and I guess one point of this post is to ask: is there?) and if we did decide we had time to do it, I’d whip up the requisite teaser text to get people in the mood, but I expect you can all picture it anyway: High-flying martial arts sword and sorcery horror. Hero / House of Flying Daggers type inspirations, sure, but really more crazy bloody Shaw Brothers / Tsui Hark style stuff. Plus huge gibbering demon things. NC-17 Exalted, if you like.
It’s the anti-Dungeon Majesty, come to think of it. Because (and you all understand that I loved Dungeon Majesty, totally dug it, but) I kinda crave a game filled with combat. Not just combat, even, but cruelty, butchery, and gore. A game where nobody hugs, everyone is bad-ass, and there is very little chance of a tear-jerking montage about all the good times they’ve shared together. The system would be Sorcerer & Sword, naturally, which seemed like such a way out crazy system when I started thinking about this game eighteen months ago, but which now seems downright traditional in many ways, with players who say what their PC does, and a GM who says what the bad guys do, and no narration by committee, and big heaping fistfuls of dice to roll at every turn. ...Man, I’ve almost talked myself into it. But the moving! And the scheduling! And the hey hey hey! I dunno. More to come.
Also: I’m going to take Jeremiah out to lunch for his birthday on Thursday. Time & Place TBA: Jere, do you have any requests? Anyone else who can make it to Central Square over their lunch hour and wants to come with should pipe up too.
