A decent number of posters, several of whom I don't know. Nice to see that the NM contigent is keeping their end up. Total comments: 1803 1 gbsteve 440 2 davidt3001 101 3 karohemd 82 4 timgray 76 5 undyingking 73 6 whollyrandom 67 7 former_pirate 60 8 d_fuses 56...

Nifty! p.s. Talking to yourself is a sign of impending mental collapse! Total comments: 1967 1 badgerbag 386 2 wild_irises 104 3 vito_excalibur 69 4 eriktrips 58 5 pantryslut 57 6 cynthia1960 46 7 pennski 41 8 bibliofile 40 9 Anonymous 38 10 ...

I'm a bad person! I stack too many things on my plate, and as a result, too many nice people end up waiting patiently for feedback on various writings. Cases in point: Laura has been waiting for comments on her draft novel, and timgray , jimboboz and the_tall_man on their games in beta version (or even in final!) ( chadu at least got a bunch of comments from me earlier...

Stupid PE exam apparently went well on Friday (I won't know for sure for three months). Looong tedious day, though. I got home wanting to go game immediately, but had to settle for reading the frivolous books (novels, comics, game books) that had been stacking for a while, and having Kahlua coffee. Saturday we went to The Dreaming to get our comic books and then to our friends Ed and Linda's annual...

I hear it's jimboboz 's birthday today. Happy birthday! :-) On Tuesday night, I posted the summary of the Roanoke season finale (starting here ). Last night I slapped together a draft poster for the 2007 edition of Emerald City Gamefest. I've already received several useful comments, will try to improve the design tonight. Unfortunately, that means I went to bed too late and...

I received a pleasant email earlier in the week from Lucy1965 , one of the other netizens! She's been trying to get over to the UK for months now and with all the problems with immigration, it's only now she's coming, to be an EMT midwife in South Buckinghamshire. Lucy's been one of the people in this crisis that's been most supportive (I've also had wonderful correspondence with Sam the prudent...

OK, things that weren't so great this weekend: just one, really (besides the fact that I was brain-dead for my game.) Only a couple of weeks or so after joining a brand-new feminist gaming forum, I managed to discover I was apparently not feminist enough for them. I'm not kidding. After spending my time dealing with the cheesecake lovers on RPGNet and tilting at windmills on The RPG Site ,...

So there's a new gaming forum up. The IRIS Network is described as a feminist-oriented community for gamers. A post clarifies it as: While I just described the forums as "feminist-oriented", this isn't a community just for feminists. It's for women of all walks of life who count gaming among their passions, men interested in networking with women gamers and perhaps learning more about inclusive...

There was recently a bit of a retread of the old arguments against RPG personality mechanics over on jimboboz 's LJ, which got me thinking a bit. Your old-school, original D&D style RPGs give you complete control over your character's mental state but strictly control physical parameters. What would a game be like that did things the other way around? That is, strict personality mechanics but...

(On 12/25/06 at 04:32 I gave myself the gift of venting, maybe Christmas wasn't a good time. I'm posting this again in the hopes that somebody checking their f-list will see this. No, I'm not out for drama. This post is filtered, only about a dozen people can see this post.     I've needed to vent about this for too damn long, but was afraid of wangsting in public. While the thought...