UPDATE: Another cool collaborative world building system, from Fred Hicks. It’s light, and seems similar to the wikidot “each person has 12 beads” system.
Humor:
Liberal Fascism, Year’s best posts, Tom Tomorrow comics (mondays), Kevin Moore comics, they’re out to get me!, Pax in oxen, peeing (Ben’s story), ideal job (for Kristen), New time management system, The evil of florists
The Inheritance and The Grandmother.
Dark and twisted; they feel like Grimms fairy tales and are well written. Check them out.
Jennifer mentioned that she’d rather get an early start on shopping– so here’s what you need to start.
Oh, we weren’t? Anyway, this thread about webcomics definitely qualifies as dangerous for me.
Some finds– and rediscoveries:
Strange/cool webcomic: Sequential art
I rememeber PvP and don’t remember why I dropped it.
Sheldon, a more “normal” comic
Punch ‘n Pie A semi-continuation of Queen of Wands.
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.
If you’re in a writing mood, plotstorming.com does a lot to help you out. The daily writing prompt is pretty neat– just enough to spark a short story or two, if you’re in the mood. (I found this site via a post on the Treasure Tables forums, and found that it’s a nice little place.)
They also have an area where you can work on a world– for a book, RPG, or whatever you need.
A similar site with more of an RPG focus is The Campaign Builder’s Guild. Their Homebrew Campaign Settings page has an impressive list of worlds you can borrow.
An interesting LJ: Redcoast
The Care And Feeding Of Your Game Group
Good guidelines for creating new stunts in Spirit of the Century.
Interesting way of doing movement and travel in RPGs.
Funky/cute gift idea: famous people finger puppets
Interesting sounding play/series– August William’s Fences
Feminist Sci-fi book recommendations.
Books from/about the Islamic world–
“The Bookseller of Kabul” by Asne Seierstad
“Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Struggle for Freedom” by Zoya with John Follain and Rita Cristofari
“In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story” by Ghada Karmi
“Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan” by Norma Khouri
“Infidel” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
A few interesting tidbits:
Here’s a handy Xen’drik Assistant, I say with pride.
Cool what I learned recently thread about GMing. Lots on AoOs and corner cases.
Via Ilyka:
