Well they power cord for my laptop went up in a puff of smoke, caused by the small explosion of wires frazzling. Hurrah, I have no laptop. Want this means is that until I get a new power cable (sometime next week) I can't get to my geek files and I can't develop any more of my games.

On the plus side this gives me time to decide where I want my games to go, sometimes it's good to stand back and get a little percpective.

Well come the 30th of December, my three year old girlfriend left me (we had been together three years, she wasn't three years of age.) Funnily enough I found out after half a bottle of Ammerreto that I'd actually stopped loving her around September. So it's been suprisingly easy. Got a date for Saturday with a friend I've had for years, she isn't a geek, but at least she likes card games, so she's half way there.

The big plus is that I now have masses of time for geekery. I'm going to be running two World of Darkness games (one old Vampire/Demon/Hunter/Mage combo and one new Changeling) something I never had time for before. Secondly I've found a well spring of ideas flowing forth. I'm developing the Skill list for my new Advent game, got cards to make for Apocalypta and had an idea for a robot based game were the character has Hardware (think attributes) and Software (think skills) but rather than Hardware aiding Software, it limits it. Your sensory hardware not of good enough quality to run the level 4 targetting program? It crashes, sorry.

Well it's less than two weeks until Christmas. So I think it's about time for a christmasy rpg competition! For those of us who haven't done anything in a while it'll get our creative juices flowing and for those with on going projects, this'll provide a nice short break.

So I propose the following.

1) People begin writing at the start of next week (Monday the 17th)

2) Sumbissions should be in by the 24th, we don't want to work on christmas.

3) The game must be christmas theme'd or at least revolve around some sort of celebatory tone (perhaps in your world christmas doesn't exist, but the opposite occurs in which people spend the day robbing and looting?)

Well I've been out of the loom for a couple of months, my mind for games just went kapoot. Perhaps it was the summer heator something else that sapped my inspiration, but it's back now (I hope) and ready to start working again.

Most of my presummer ideas are too vague in my head now and I think I'll return to those projects after I've done something to sharpen up my mind.

So later today I'm going to be putting up my next game idea for a game I'm thinking of calling Dreamers. Not sure yet, but I'll let you decide what you think once I've put the rough rules/settings page up.

Student mugged by geese
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
A student is feeling hissed off after he was mugged for his mobile phone by three geese.

Sam Rozati was walking home through campus when he was set upon by the flighty trio. He dropped his phone in fright and one of the birds ran off with it in its beak.

The final year law student claimed the incident happened as he walked past a lake at Essex University in Colchester.

'I've never been mugged by anyone before, but now I've been mugged by three geese,' noted the 23-year-old, providing a handy summary of the incident for anybody who'd forgotten the point of the story.

Something a group of us used to play at school (I was the Commisioner.) It is kind of like LARP, in that we added score bonuses for spectacularly conniving, sneaky or risky kills. If you take this to your own school, office place or group of friends, please remind them that it is only a game, not to be taken seriously and no harm should be done to any players.

Oh and I take no responsibility if this goes badly.

I wrote this ten hours into a twelve hour flight. So don't be mean if anything sounds insane.

Roleplaying is a cathartic measure. Those with over, or even yper, active imaginations find i ard sometimes to have vents for creativity and without these vents they can be prone to over excessive mood changes, varying from elation to depression.

The nature of roleplaying is that of a healer, spending time not having to be yourself, becomming someone or something else. Almost all forms of passive recreation contain this healing, watching a film you begin to emulate the protagonists thoughts, extrapolating the plot with your own interpretations of how the character would act. It is the same for reading and, in neccessity, writing.

I don't want to put up a book page until I've got a pretty full equipment list. So I'm putting the names I've already got here. If any one else has ideas for equipment, I'd happily incorporate them.

Hats

Appretice Hat
Winged Helmet
Jester's Hat
Hood
Mitre
Triregnum (the pope's hat)

Armour

Fancy Robes
Vagrant Robes
Chasuble
Dark Cloak
Tight Leather

Neck

Pallium

Weapons

Umbraculum
Magic Flute
Incense Pot
Pointy Stick
Dagger
Sharp Spear
Rag Doll
Ruler

Belt

Jock Strap of Containment(+ to priest levels!)

Shoes

Sandals
Pointy Slippers
BIG Boots
SNEAKers

Well I was bored in my English class and I did a doodle of a little RPG character in some clothes. Then I thought, what if your clothes made your character? Great. He's got a wizards hat so thats +1 wiz level and he's got plimsoles on so thats +1 Acrobat and +1 Rogue!

So here's the idea for garb. There are five classes that make up your attributes. These are Acrobat, Rogue, Wizard, Priest and Warrior.

You've got levels for each class and you advance them how you wish. But you also get your gear, which adds to these levels.

From these classes you've got your stats.
Gear doesn't add to these, only to action rolls.

Really sorry to all Deus players, but the game wont be opening today for the following reason.

Stomach Cramps + Love/Hate relationship with the toilet = Bearable.

Stomach Cramps + Constant Hunger = I can cope.

Stomach Cramps + Exhaustion because of stomach cramps = Painkillers, please?

All that for three days directly after a twelve hour flight and still going on (codine is taking the edge of it) kind of means I don't want to be dealing with anything big for another 24hrs. sorry.