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Posted by Link: Uncomfortable Plot Summaries
Uncomfortable Plot Summaries Some of my favourites: BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill. GHOSTBUSTERS: Unemployed college professors destroy hotel with nuclear weapons. ROBIN HOOD: Disgruntled veteran protests taxes.
What we talked about last time we played…
The Placebo Affect getting stronger? – wired.com Classic computer game: Descent. You can download it now for $6!
Disturbing Japanese RPG
The Maid RPG. Freaky. The premise is that the GM plays the master of a mansion of some kind, and the PCs are all his maids. It’s a wacky comedy game that can at times get disturbing if you let it. Though I do like the PCs… Tsunee Hatakeyama (16), a normal girl with glasses [...]
How Machiavellian are you?
Found out using this test: http://www.salon.com/books/it/1999/09/13/machtest/index.html. I’m apparently 64% or so.
Funny AND tragic?
Xavier: Sure, why not? Course, if I loose a finger in a tragic, yet funny, story of Skating Hi-jinks, I’m taking one of yours! Peter: i can live with that but it had better be big on the funny & tragic Xavier: Funny AND tragic? Peter: yeah bit like a mother in law choking to [...]
Posted by You know, it’s not just DiddlySquat!
The Nearside Project (www.hammerdog.com/Intro%20The%20Nearside%20Project.htm) – actually sounds kinda cool at least as an idea. 13 parrallel worlds that the PCs can travel between, each of the parrallel worlds is based on a genre. Late Gaming have an end of worlds type RPG and a sequal to it. Crucible Design (www.lategaming.com/crucibledesign) have a Zombie RPG, a [...]
Survey of the Irish Roleplaying Market
DiddlySquat have released the results of their Big Mad Irish Gaming Survey. Interesting stuff. There is also a nice discussion of it on irishgaming.com. You can just download it directly from http://www.diddlysquat.ie/BMIGS04-05_report.pdf (for those only reading this in digest mode, seeing in the digest format, links are stripped out).
A nifty random name generator
Pretty handy if your stuck for a name. www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm.