[I found the notes for this yesterday and thought I'd share it here. I originally shared this idea in a Wave with my gaming group.] How do we get the most out of a game with a big, rich setting? Given our busy lives, big setting books aren’t the answer. Weapons of the Gods monetized [...]
Jenny suggested I do an edition of MFMF of “Music that makes us happy.” I like the sound of that. Spring time is always a time when my mind turns to upbeat happy songs. I look forward to crusing home with the windows down, the sun warming my arm and the wind in my…scalp. I [...]
Three Primary Attributes Skull describes your intelligence, wit, and memory. Bloode describes your strength, agility, stamina, reflexes and overall health. Grog describes your willpower, courage, and spiritual health. A Derived Attribute, the sum of the three primaries. Salt is how effective your character is. It serves primarily to track a character’s current health. You cannot [...]
The past two weeks, as I wrap up my turn in the GMs chair, we’ve played a home-brewed game of Pirates. The guys started out being marooned on an island, found a sloop, got revenge on their marooners and headed for the Carolina coast. The next week they pirated 3 plantations. I have been having [...]
Another Hobby that interests me. This is one I’d get into if I had the skills and time. I guess the skills could be acquired from that ancient technology: books. So really just time. Anyway… Let’s call this hobby “Tinkering.”We’d be best served by me simply showing what I mean. An Underwood #5 Computer?! The [...]
Continuing my posts about hobbies which I find fascinating, but are not mine I give you … Cardstock modeling.Seriously. There are some pretty cool freebies out there. I tried one and it turned out pretty good (it was a Norman Church).Some medieval buildings. Some Wild West models Here’s one for the Pirate in you. World [...]
I’ve mentioned Mount Zion in passing in a few posts. Here’s the nickle version. My good friend Mike and I are publishing a literary journal. It is called Mount Zion Speculative Fiction Review. The subtitle is, “a journal of Appalachian Fantasy and Horror.” That’s right, a journal of fantasy and horror stories with an Appalachian [...]
CloudsVinesThe Door Here are some pics I took on my Olympus SLR. They have been touched up in Photoshop, but they are real pictures. The Door and Clouds were taken in downtown Clinton, TN. They are both along the same wall of an old brick building. Vines was taken in Jellico, TN. It is the [...]