Shadowrun on Friday… let’s kick some hoop. If you’ll have trouble making it, just let us know.
If you have any suggestions, thoughts. or want to work anything out before the session, let’s get scribbling or phone calling.
I’ve sketched out a background on the wiki— if you have notes you want to add, I know I’m interested.
Here’s a page with the changes from Shadowrun 2 to 3 highlighted.
On playing the Cleric: A good discussion about why people do and don’t enjoy it.
John Kim’s Spirit of Serenity: one and two (Spirit of the Century crossed with the Firefly universe, one shot.)
Dreamation interview w/ Vincent, a Sons of Kryos podcast.
Good Afraid guide and Actual Play. (Afraid is a horror sequel to Dogs in the Vineyard.)
New Horizon Q&A. (New Horizon is the first Spirit of the Century supplement, about people marginalized in traditional pulps.)
Roleplaying fun with kids. A thread I link to all the time.
James Wallis’s page
IPR’s retailer’s page
We’re on schedule to get together next this upcoming Friday. We’ve tentatively scheduled it as a Shadowrun Character and Background Creation session. Kev has told us that any group of runners will work– don’t worry about “balancing” the team.
Here’s what we have so far, also on a new wiki page:
Dad: A former swat team magician, enhanced a bit with cyberware and a few body enhancements. Very good at melting brains and knocking people out…
Me: A kid with a gift for healing; long on skills for “getting along” on the streets.
Jennifer: A skilled, probably cybered fighter, with a love of cars and retro technology.
Any corrections anyone? Any early thoughts Ben?
If you’re on the web and have some time to kill, I have a page of Shadowrun links that might be useful.
We finished the adventures of Erisorn, Ludwig, Draifen and Kogor last week, and look forward to picking a new game this Friday. Come prepared to kibitz and pitch fun games for the rest of us to play! (We can also sneak in some light and funny board games while we’re talking, if that’s appealing on Friday.)
UPDATE: The session has been pushed back to the 23rd. Kev is out of town this weekend, visiting in-laws.
If you have any problems making it Friday, please let us know. Otherwise, it sounds like we’ll finish up Waterdeep and wander back up the hill to turn Erisorn’s brain over to Chaos. 😉
Tom and Cheryl are still on schedule to visit us this weekend, so our normal D&D night is off. It looks like our next meeting should be Friday, February 9th. As ever, if that doesn’t work for you, please let us know.
I’ve read some interesting advice, mostly targeted at novelists, but useful for roleplaying as well. (I’d especially like to figure out how to adapt the Sequel/Scene pacing elements to games.)
Sequels and Scenes: Important balance, important emphasis, particularly for writers.
Quick Spirit of the Century summary
Cool tiles, freely available.
With Kev’s illness derailing the game this week, it looks like we’re going to need to skip ahead to next week. Jennifer is throwing a goodbye party for her designer on Friday night, so a Saturday game sounds best. Can you all make it?
Just to make things trickier, Jennifer’s flying out of Fresno Saturday night for a conference in Las Vegas. I think that we can still get in a good session– say 11 am – 6 pm?
The game log has been updated too.
(If you saw anything here– ignore it. We’re back to throwing the party on Friday. Yay for Saturday gaming.)
An interesting idea: trying to game 30 days straight. I still have a lot to read here: 30 days of gaming.
Quirky look at RPG prep, using chemistry as a metaphor.
What would a player’s advice chapter look like? Also, Players providing each other with fun. and A preliminary guide for playing mindfully.
Monte Cook’s: “Final Thoughts” about D&D Spell Casters and Rounds.
Sacredchao’s blog: Stuff, lots of movie reviews and discussion.
We had our negotiation with Despater, but it looks like the gods are leaving him to us. Let’s see what this week brings…
If you’ll have any problem making it Friday night, please let us know.
I think we’re looking at winding up the D&D game pretty soon– it’s been a lot of fun. Still, I look ahead and try to figure out what fun’s on the horizon. Here are the choices I’m hearing so far…