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Prisoner fights for right to play Dungeons and Dragons | News Bizarre | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.

Just check out their reasons.  They think D&D promotes gambling amongst other things.  I feel discriminated against.

I had a great Thanksgiving.  I stayed a couple of days and had to babysit for a little bit so I took advantage of the time and got to introduce a couple of my nephews to the joy of Table Top Role Playing Games.  Dungeons and Dragons to be exact.  (continue reading…)

Room parties are almost as big at SF cons as are the regular events.  I took this video walking around on the party floor at around 1 am or so. Clickie —>

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That’s most of what I saw that is.  (continue reading…)

Fortunately most the ApolloCon movie stuff is done.  We’ve got the schedule done, most the staff set up and ready to go, and the flyers are all up on the website.  (continue reading…)

I snagged this from the ApolloPlus40 twitter feed.

It’s an awesome feed about the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. It’s done in real time, that is, it’s the testing and the prep before the launch as it happened 40 years ago. It’s been fun to follow.

Thinking of Apollo… namely ApolloCon, don’t forget it’s next weekend and we will be there running the movie room.  I’ll also be involved with the Space City Time Lords and throwing a party in my room.  Don’t know what night it will be yet, but it will be announced at the con, if not here first.

I also am going to try and run a GURPS game on Saturday afternoon.  Probably around 12 noon or so.  It should be on the schedule at the con or up on the webpage soon.

The iced coffee at the downtown library’s new coffee shop is pretty potent stuff.  I’m still buzzing from it.  I think it’s addled my brain.  They give you a discount for having a library card.  And.. the don’t ask to see your card for whatever reason, just if you have one.  I still don’t get that.

Anyway.  No game tonight, it was determined after a few cryptic email and text conversations with parties involved.  (I did mention addled brain syndrom?)  Right.  Ok.  Too bad, I’m really starting to get into it.  GM’ng isn’t so bad when I get over the performance anxiety.  I’ve certainly done enough research to write a book on the subject of mid nineteenth century Steampunk Texas.  Who needs to make up stuff when there were plenty of real life crazy going on there at that time.  Lots of nice politics, war and various conflict and scam going on for a lifetime of gaming in that era in this part of the world.   I think I could carry on this game for 3 times longer than Texas was a Republic and never run out of adventure nor have to actually make anything up.   lol  Just add silly steam tech and instant game fodder.  Now if I can only get comfy with GURPS rules.

After two LARP sessions and two games I am sitting here in the student center at Rice awake due to the magic of caffeine.  We LARP’d last night until around 5am at the Cthulu larp.  It was a bit convoluted but I did manage to live and have one sanity left at the point they called the game.  I have to admit it at that point had degraded to everyone wondering around incoherent and crazed and nothing of interest happening.  I did win a prize for my costume.    I have to admit, I’ve sunk a lot of money into garb for someone who lives on a boat and  has limited space and cash for such things.  I don’t know what it is about the perception that Steampunk garb must include a set of goggles.  My garb had no goggles, just a nice coat and a kick ass top hat, and I had ditched the top hat and still won 2nd prize.   I do  have to admit, the coat kicks much boo-tay.  The person with first prize had a fantastic silk blouse and cape and black Victorian skirt.  She was amazing.

In other games featured at Owlcon, I played a rather mediocre Cyberpunk game with a GM who insisted on his players generating characters, my worst pet peeve concerning gaming conventions.  Never do this folx, it makes the GM look like an amateur and takes valuable hours away from getting to the business of killing things. In 5 hour slots, this is very annoying to those of us who come to these things to role dice and figuratively blast stuff.  I should make a note of all GM’s who have done this to me and make sure I don’t pick their games next year.

The Shadowrun game I got into was much better organized.  In fact the GM was almost obsessively organized.  It was a great gaming experience and I’d game with her any day.

Well, it was a first time con.  I got there Friday night and had a hard time finding people at all.  Most were people I had met at previous Houston area conventions, the usual suspects so to speak.  The people running the convention are of the mind that they didn’t do their advertising.  I tend to agree that may be part of it, the other part I think that may be a large part of this problem may be attributed to the fact that Owlcon has been scheduled for the week after and most people I know were planning to go to that one.  (continue reading…)

I finally got that game off the ground.  Wow.  I am slowly getting used to gm-ing GURPS.  I should be fine by the time the con gets here.  Looks like Con-jour is pretty much out.  I have to be down the Elissa.  Owlcon is paid for and all I need to do is find crash space.  My mom wants me to pick her and Claude up and take them to the air port on Sunday morning.  This is going to be rough.  Then I have to take care of Bonnie for a week. I hope the weather is cool next week for the doggie’s sake.

Imbolc was great.  I love Buescher State Park.  I even got to meet and chat and hang out with Isaac Bonewitz.

In other things, check this out: 7 ways to spot bogus science.