And the initial mess gets less and less

[omorka]

Did I mention my life is YAFIYGI? All of my kids are WYSIWYG - it's so much simpler, and I envy it - but this is what happens when the Magician and the High Priestess are standing just over your shoulder, giggling at you . . .

JG is now quantumduck. Thus, the two people I was the most lamenting in my post of Jan. 3rd have in fact both promptly shown up here. (Thanks, guys!)

Heard from moontyger last night and today - they made it here safely, thank goodness. Unfortunately, I don't think exposing to them to whatever cold the Spouse has come down with is a good idea, so we may not get to see them for a little bit. (Grrr.)

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Things to Do, Gaming-Wise:

1) Finish the "Seven Kingdoms" part of GURPS: Talislanta. Having a ready-made non-Tolkenian fantasy world in a system that actually works would be quite cool.

2) Cobble together the shards of GURPS: Master of Orion and have a usable Space Opera campaign ready to go.

3) Decide what I want to do with my old fantasy campaign from the Tuesday Gamer days.

4) Join one of the ongoing WoD games in binaryathena's social circle, probably the Changeling game, as I can't seem to get invited directly to the Mage game.

5) Trim down a couple of my old Magic: the Addiction, whoops, I mean Crack: the Gathering, oh, well, you know what I mean, decks and take them with me on the math club's next few tournaments - I know a couple of my kids are cardfloppers . . .

6) Corrupt memeslayer and DM and turn them both into gamers. They're both computer-gamers already, so the battle's half-won . . .

. . .

247) See if Jorune can be battered into GURPS-able format, or, failing that, FUDGE.

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The second batch of the clothes showed up on Movie Night. Everything fits. I'm pleased, although I now have too many tops and not enough bottoms, and one of the things I bought really demands ironing, which I hate doing.

I need to figure out what, if anything, I'm going to do about having been invited to our Prom this year. I don't have a suitable dress, and I really can't keep buying clothing, even though I can clear some of the oldest, just-post-fire stuff out of there. I don't particularly want to go, since I wouldn't be working (I'm working graduation, this year as every year - and it looks like it's going to be on a Friday), but I also don't want to seem ungracious, since this is the first year that the kids have really asked me. There's a sage-colored hammered satin affair in one of the BryLane catalogs that is really tempting - and it would be perfect for being the "responsible adult" but still dressed appropriately for a prom - and while it's expensive, it's not that expensive. Ah, well.

I tried a new cookie recipe for Movie Night (one of the inadvertent results of my having to bus to the store the last two weeks was a book of nothing but cookie recipes, all US native (although, really, most cookies are, except for a few French ones and shortbread). It was quite a hit, although it makes 50 cookies (I should probably halve the recipe next time) and they were a bit oversalted (I guess when they said use unsalted butter, they meant it; usually they don't). PB did mention he would like more chocolate next time, so next week is going to be a chocolate-chocolate chip affair (I have several to choose from). I do so enjoy having a captive audience to show off my baking to.

In other random culinary news, I have over two dozen different kinds of tea on my shelf, counting herbals. This includes four different variations on Earl Grey. The Spouse, as some of you will recall, is not a tea drinker. While I can sometimes talk a guest into a cuppa, usually DM, I'm the only one who drinks most of it. I'm going to have to get creative before summer comes (either that, or I can emulate the spouse's aunt, who ices Earl Grey).

Comments

RPGs(not just the Dress-Me-Up kind)

[memeslayer.livejournal.com]

I've always kind of wanted to get into the pen and paper RPG scene, but I've never had an appropriate social group to do it with.

And since it'll probably be years before I'm in Houston again for an extended period of time, I *still* won't have an appropriate social group to do it with. :(

Finding a Winter-04 co-op in Houston would be nice...

Re: RPGs(not just the Dress-Me-Up kind)

[omorka.livejournal.com]

If you were going to have an extended vacation anytime soon, I'd toss you in the gaming pool then, but it didn't sound like that was going to happen anytime soon.

Then again, I was just commenting about my YAFIYGI life - the Winter co-op might be something else there to Ask For, perhaps . . .

I know there's usually anime at gaming cons; is the reverse ever true?

Re: RPGs(not just the Dress-Me-Up kind)

[memeslayer.livejournal.com]

I know there's some sort of LARP at Otakon every year, but I suspect the short duration of cons prevents anything more than that.

There is, however, lots of electronic gaming; mostly stuff like DDR and ParaPara, along with some fighting games(Soul Calibur and such).

[brezhnev.livejournal.com]

So, how is GURPS to play? I have a bunch of their stuff, because I worked at their factory for a day and they let me have at the scratch and dent shelf, but I haven't had much of a chance to get into it.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

I like it a lot - it's my favorite system, and now that AD$D has gone 3rd edition, it's the only system I know well enough to consider myself expert at. (I consider myself proficient at the World of Darkness system from White Wolf, but not expert; ditto the system that the Chaosium Call of Cthulhu and ElfQuest games are written in.) It's pretty logical, the rules are well-organized (if a bit spread out), and different genres are all competently represented. If you want to throw psionics in your Wild West game, or rampaging undead into your space-opera, here you go.

However, it does have the downside that, as a *huge* system, it has a lot of mechanics. This can interrupt the flow of the game if you as the GM are not adept at winging it, or if you have a good rules lawyer (hello, MLL) in your gaming group. Moreover, for certain types of player styles, the mechanics can get in the way of the roleplaying, although I personally have never had that problem - for me, the rules of GURPS are less intrusive than those of AD$D ever were, and no more so than the WoD rules. follybard can probably give a good run-down of its roleplaying weaknesses, as she was the one in our old gaming group who seemed to have the most trouble with it.

yo

[teegarden.livejournal.com]

hm ... dunno about any tabletop mage games, but i run the houston cam larp mage game. chica, you want in to that, you are entirely invited. like you and Da Spouse (tm) are always invited to any game i run ... (duh). but in case you hath forgotten such things, please play. :)

also, re: non-tolkien fantasy game worlds ... i also recommend glorantha, by issaries (formerly stuff for runequest) and/or steve jackson.

Re: yo

[omorka.livejournal.com]

We're not Cam members, and, given the grotesque politics that seem to have erupted out of that, not likely to become members anytime soon - would we still be allowed to play? (Actually, I'm a little disillusioned with the organized LARP scene [as opposed to disorganized one-shots, which can be truly cool].)

I have the Steve Jackson basic fantasy world, which is cool but not quite to my taste. I actually started working on the Talislanta stuff again last night. How non-standard is Glorantha? For example, are there elves? I only played Runequest once, long ago, and I remember almost nothing about it.