Cellular Smoke Signals

I've noticed a marked change in some of my perspective.

When I was involved with SETAC discussing rules and variations and costs and all that was really interesting. Possibly because there was a chance that the discussion would affect the Rules Themselves, as in what's printed in the book.

Once that's done though, and it's all printed. I find the exercise tedious. banal. annoying.

I take to heart the idea of Toolkitting. I firmly believe the most important ...

I rolled into San Fransisco Area early Friday, and went and hung out in the city with my cousins (pizza, museum and cupcakes) before heading out to San Ramon and the convention. Getting there an hour late due to my cell phone dying about two instructions from me finding the hotel. Meh. Should have charged it overnight in Reno when I crashed for the previous night.

So... DDC. My first one. The only reason I would return it because I have family and friends in the area I'd like to see ...

I finalized and sent off the first Sixth Edition Master Index to Steve today, there are only five books so it's a small PDF at the moment. Nothing like the over 400 page monster of the previous Ultimate Index. Yet. This time I decided to include a list of Modifiers (Advantages, Limitations and Adders) in the back for reference as well.

I also finally went over and put together the ideas I had on Spells As Skills into a cool little PDF document that I'll be posting to the boards and ...

Vondy's recent Blog Entries - specifically the one lamenting having to Build spells - got me thinking in a new direction on some ideas I had already tried out in one campaign.

The essential idea is to reduce Spells in a Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or similar, campaign to nothing more than Skills. Mechanical Builds are a lot of fun, and indeed much of the fun for many Hero Gamers. On the other hand, they can also be an immense pain in the backend when you're trying to set up a fully thought ...

1976.

The United States Celebrates is bi-centennial. I was born. Punk Music b**ch slaps the music scene.

Not coincidence I assure you. Oddly enough, as punk music beat on the brat over in England, the US was celebrating a couple hundreds years of beating on England. The irony isn't lost on me. Assuming there's irony there... maybe the irony comes when you realize that the Ramones had to go to England to become famous to get famous over here.

As things ...