I had a great 2006, and enjoyed the beginning of 2007. While the span from Christmas til yesterday was exhausting, it was great to see everyone, play a few games, and enjoy the presence of family. I’m a really lucky guy, you know?
Happy 2007 to everyone!
We’re off for the holidays– have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We’re scheduled to resume the evening of Friday, January 5th.
The Game Log should be updated soon– short form: the Queen is crowned, we were lauded… but Despater left us a note saying “You’ve won a battle, not the war.”
Here’s a collection of the weird and random.
Roleplaying:
Designing a Setting:
Setting Design Jumpstart, a few questions.
Working out a world casually, on couches.
Want a Druid-lite NPC class? The Gleaner, by Keith Baker. A druidic version of the Magewright.
Other random interesting stuff:
Fascinating details of the Arabic language and agape love.
Important ID protection info, about that cool RFID chip, hotel keys, and more.
Freecycle, like recycling crossed with Craig’s list.
Cool cheap stuff to do with kids.
Our kitten, immortalized.
We’re next scheduled for a Friday night, the same 6:30 start time as normal.
If you’ll have any problems making it, just let us know.
That site I mentioned with the custom character sheets is Ema’s Sheets. Select dynamic sheets, and away you go.
***Your Birthdate: September 24***
You understand people well and are a natural born therapist.
A peacemaker, people always seem to get along when you are around.
You tend to be a father or mother figure to friends, even to those older than you.
You enjoy your role, and you find that you are close to many people.
Your strength: Your devotion
Your weakness: Reliance on others for happiness
Your power color: Lilac
Your power symbol: Heart
Your power month: June
What Does Your Birth Date Mean?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatdoesyourbirthdatemeanquiz/
Ema’s sheets on the web Cool, semi-custom character sheets. Includes a big “feat checkbox” sheet!
Spirit of the Century review.
Large Scale Battles advice thread.
The basics: What you need to start an RPG campaign
Well said: how to awesome up PCs.
Revised Beholder, Ogre Mage, and Rust Monster.
Making the party & Building Parties Together— a pair of posts about making good groups.
Form-Fillable Magic Item Slots (pdf)
Gamecraft: Levi’s roleplaying improvement forums.
Discussion of D&D play at various levels
Non-core Races & Classes for Xen’drik
Burning Wheel prep example
Our next session is scheduled for December 8th. Dad’s off to a Christmas Party tonight (Friday), while Jennifer and I already RSVPed for my office Christmas party Saturday night. So, we’re now looking at fitting the game in sometime else– perhaps Sunday? Let us know what works…
The log is updated– last week was pretty easy because battles take a lot of game time, but sum up quickly.
I’m linking to this post for meme research. Yes, the day after I first saw the request…
If you have a blog, he’s begging a link from you too.
Current Habeas status update from Katherine, commenting at Obsidian Wings.
Legal immigrants who the gov’t deems to be “enemy combatants” do not have any right to habeas corpus, because they are not U.S. citizens. The fact that they are detained in South Carolina is irrelevant.
U.S. citizens detained in Iraq do not have any right to habeas corpus because they are being detained by a “multinational force” (although that force is commanded by a U.S. general and is directly subordinate to the U.S. Central Command, the Secretary of Defense, and the President). The fact that they are U.S. citizens is irrelevant.
Glenn Greenwald comments.
Kev’s out of town this weekend, while next weekend is Thanksgiving. We’re looking at Friday, December 1st for our next game.
As ever, if you’ll have any problem making it, please let us know. (I’ll also try to get to the log sometime soon.