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I got to meet Nora tonight! She is a cutie, a little round ball, except for her wrinkly feet with long monkey-like toes. I think you could make a wish on her feet, but of course her feet would twist your words and the wish would turn out evil. I had a nice chat with her Mommy & Daddy, too. Daddy's next spy game is diabolical, though still a work in progress. Right now it sounds like it will combine the simplicity of a LeCarre trilogy with the quickness of learning Bridge and the ease of ad libbing your own spy novel. But I'm looking forward to it.

Our pod is obviously in one of those creative cycles right now with a ton of neat RPG ideas being floated and not much actual gaming being done. Here I will add to the glut and do nothing to solve it, by describing five game ideas that have colonized my own headspace lately. But this isn't hot air. I'd run any one of these within the month if I had confirmed players. (Probably.) Which is not to say I'm not looking forward to all the groovy games everyone else has been proposing. Once again I ask in wonderment: what do the people (I presume some exist) who don't fantasize at length about teen superspies and glam-rock aliens and SoCal vampire slayers spend all their time thinking about? Reality TV? Jeez, what a way to live your life.

( Spaghetti Eastern )

( Battle Without Honor or Humanity )

( Starchildren: The Musical )

( Father of Night )

( Black History Month )

Comments n' queries, cheers n' jeers, darts n' laurels, kicks n' kudos, slaps n' bennies welcome. Remember, kids: game ideas are like little fairies that need your love to live. When they don't get LJ comments, the fairies die... and it's all your fault.

"We entered macrospace. Splintered across the endless, infinite worlds of the superspectrum: the immense rainbow of realities where everything you ever imagined is just as real as everything else and all at once."

"Big deal. Then what?"
—Marvel Boy & Oubliette, Grant Morrison's Marvel Boy

My freakish tear of game-related writing continues, with thoughts towards running a straight-up uber-powered superhero game. The notes are all hidden away behind an LJ-cut because these are fragmentary, stream of consciousness jottings, and because I have no idea when or if I would ever run this. Certainly not before Unknown USA ends. ( Read more... )

So I downloaded the RPG InSpectres. Genre-wise it's basically a Ghostbusters rip off (and cheerfully up front about that) but in terms of game mechanics it's one of your cutting-edge indie "narrativist" games, which is geek speak for "the players get to make up the story too." It looks like, with the right players, it would be a hell of a lot of fun. What I'm really itching to do is to use it to run something in the whole Buffy / Smallville photogenic superteens versus eldritch horrors genre. I'd call it Miskatonic High. The shared narrative mechanic would be perfect for both the fast-paced monster-of-the-week bashing and the requisite WB-teen-soap subplots.