It looks like we’re looking at the first Friday in November as our next gaming get together. Does anybody have a problem with gaming Friday, November 2nd? If so, please let us know in comments.
I’m looking forward to November…
BTW: Bugs, I’m coming for you! It just looks like I’m moving away from you… the film must be in backwards.
UPDATE: If you saw the previous update, ignore it. After Eric’s ceremony was canceled, Dad reverted to his old trip plans.
We’re currently looking at Sunday October 14th as the next potential game (unless something else breaks our way first). Let us know if you can make it. Does 2:30 sound like a good start time again? For food: Do we want people to bring their own food at 2:30 (or eat prior) and plan a few pizzas at 6, or some other plan?
Here’s a link to a Calendar, showing what events are going on. Game Group Calendar. If you have an event keeping you away from gaming coming up, let me know and I’ll add it to the calendar. [FYI: Jennifer and I are in blue, all other game session related events– including game days, conflicting work, travel, etc., are in Red.]
How about a Sunday afternoon game? (Kev’s working Friday night and Ben’s at Saturday’s Bulldogs game.) I’m proposing Sunday at 2:30. Can you make it? Would another time work better for you? Just add a comment or call me and I’ll get the word out.
Josh created a street samurai/mercenary type… a tough Dwarf who takes cannon hits and laughs. He’s shaping up to be the spear point of our wedge. Welcome!
Shadowrun Resources:
Shadowrunning wiki with some old clues, some characters, and a few “getting to know your character” questionnaires. If you want to edit it, just let me know and I’ll send you a link.
Shadowrun links page. A collection of resources for Shadowrun from across the web. The 6th world wiki timeline is a handy way to get up to speed on the world of 2057.
I’ve updated the D&D links page with character resources for the game. Other useful resources include:
The Dawn of Worlds PDF
Pen, Paper and Pixel’s Autocalcing Character Sheets
Unless we hear otherwise, expect our runners to start getting into serious trouble on Saturday. We’re headed across the border into the Sidhe-Salish lands to extract the pronged pocket-comp and the data on those files. We’ll be facing the Flying Monkeys and more…
Let us know if you’ll have any trouble making it. Hopefully sleep will be kinder to everyone this week. See you soon!
Last weekend didn’t work, but I have hopes for the 22nd. Can everyone make it?
(Off topic: Stangely, Stupid Ranger is a pretty good group gaming blog.)
We’re on to game Saturday night, 6:30 pm just like last week. Seattle seems to have strange nuke issues (with bonus strange symbols), Amadeus is bereft without the big glowy statue we glimpsed in the warehouse, and our runners are safe in the bosom of Ares after a thorough debriefing.
I wonder what we’ll be up to next?
Dawn of Worlds(PDF) is the communal world building game I mentioned on Saturday. We’ll use it to build a campaign world for the D&D campaign whenever we start. Remind me Saturday and I’ll hand out “early thinking” sheets about the upcoming game.
After a week of keeping 4e discussion compressed to a handful of threads, they’ve opened 4e forums for discussion and analysis.
4e Social Combat described [1] and [2]… it sounds pretty cool.
I liked this set of Death conditions:
(from Saga) Brought to 0 HP + receiving damage greater than one’s threshold = dead. If it’s not higher than the threshold, the character is merely unconscious. However, once the character is unconscious, a coup-de-grace automatically kills them. So instead of accidental deaths, it has to be intentional death.
Someone has to really want that character dead for them to die. At least this way, we aren’t relying so much on Raise Dead/Resurrection.
From Heather at Errant Thoughts:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
3. Tag eight people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blogs.
Eight random facts. Hmm…
1) I learned roleplaying at lunch time, at school, in a game run by two teachers: Mr. Reid and Mr. Martin. It was a zany 1e dungeon crawl. Mr. Martin is my dad.
2) I like to learn things in spurts. I’ll happily read fiction or work related stuff for six months, then I’ll suddenly go on a self improvement kick and decide to learn about something new, often a period of history. The most recent kick was China; I enjoyed a few histories and a solid memoir, Wild Swans, which did a great job of showing life over the previous three generations of China. While I enjoyed the broad sweep of history books, Wild Swans grounded me. Seeing the cultural revolution from a teen’s point of view was powerful.
3) The learning spurt I was on when I met Jennifer was America’s revolutionary and founding era. I waded through about half of the Federalist Papers. Interestingly, I found that reading the Federalist Papers made me very curious about the anti-Federalist papers, because so many of the strongest papers seem to be responses to specific anti-Federalist paper claims.
We’re still on the Saturday schedule; Jennifer survived last week but this week is the full system test. Keep your fingers crossed…
Let us know if you have plans this weekend. Otherwise, we’ll look forward to playing around 6:30, same as this week.
From Hilzoy’s post, Jose Padilla And Lowell Jacoby. As always, it’s best to read the whole thing.
rather than dwelling on the verdict, I want to focus instead on a memo (pdf) that Marty Lederman posted at Balkinization a few days ago. It’s the single most shocking document concerning this administration’s attitude towards the Constitution that I have seen thus far. It’s from Lowell Jacoby, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and it is an explanation of why Jose Padilla should not be allowed access to counsel. Bear in mind that the Sixth Amendment holds that “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall (…) have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.” Of course, Padilla was not at that time charged with any crime, which is why one might have thought that the Fifth Amendment might have been relevant: “No person shall be (…) deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Possibly there are exceptions for prisoners of war, but Padilla was arrested at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, not in the mountains of Afghanistan.