Curt’s Basement

Well I am officially moved. It was long and exhaustive but survived. The place is nice and bigger then I imagined when placing things. I think one of my favorite things aside from the huge tub is the silence at night and the fact that we are not very illuminated so you can see the stars very easily. I have internet however no phone (Yay DSL) so not sure when I will achieve connectivity. Looking at the garage which is packed I say a good week if not a bit more.

So if anyone needs to reach me you go my cell number so best to go with that for now.

Here’s your Monday Music Video!

Unveiled! I just found out about it myself, so I know absolutely nothing about it other than it’s official!

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/

This trailer is not 100% awesome or nothing, but i think the show will be. It’s by the guy that did Firefly, and it has the guy that played Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), it also has Doogie Howser! BOOYAH!

Not sure when the first episode is being released, but as far as i know it is all gonna be free over the internets. The name is Doctor Horrible’s Video Blog!.

Likes to be made of cheese filled win! Oh yeah!

Erick Wujcik, author of our beloved TMNT roleplaying game, along with alot of other books for the abysmal Palladium line of RPGs passed away earlier this month after a long bout with cancer. While I didn’t follow his work closely, I know that we all had great fun with the TMNT RPG, and it pretty much is the sole reason we discovered RPGs outside of D&D, so I think he deserves at least a little bit of our respect.

Besides, without him we wouldn’t have had anything as creative as a nitroglycerin-laden, artifically intelligent, murderous van run amok!

http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=90372

I recently read a series of really fascinating articles from Ars Ludi called Grand Experiments: West Marches (part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4). With all the excitement surrounding the release of 4th edition, I’ve been reading alot of DMing articles and such to find inspiraition and to hone my skill set as a DM. The article I mentioned talks about a different sort of campaign we’re used to. Instead of a set plot line with a defined villain and goals, it’s very much a sandbox-style of campaign.

I find this to be really fascinating as it’s almost like exploring a more living, breathing world. Sometimes, from where I’m sitting at least, things can seem to be a bit linear. I sometimes feel that you guys are almost fearful of straying from the main plot just in case you might derail it indefinitely. I agree with that sentiment to some degree. With campaigns like the Shackled City (Cauldron), it had a very defined path and pacing to it that were fragile when faced with the possibility of players straying from the path. Furthermore, and honestly, unless I’ve made everything up on the fly, my ability to improvise is not always on call.

I want to fix that. I want to have a campaign like the West Marches. Start small with a town that has some ruins nearby and let the group decide their own fate. The idea, of course, being that stories and characterization are emergent. The characters would grow and change with the setting and NPCs would become alot more familiar.

At this point, it’s all just an idea. There’s not alot of play going on right now so I’m not certain it’s wise to start another campaign, and I’d really like to focus on the ones I’ve already got at this point, but I just thought I’d mention the idea and the articles as I’ve been thinking about it all a fair bit just lately.

Hello everyone, I have not dissapeared! I just wanted to say though that things are going ok. Marie is hanging in there and has not been too bad. I had to go for an asthma treatment yesterday so yes another trip to the emergency. When you start to know the staff rotations there is a problem lol But all is ok and were taking things in stride. The townhouse is almost all packed. Were wrapping up the packing today.

So Chris or Cliff (I saw him post something on Alex site) if you can help out. Not sure how long you down Chris. We need some hands on the 25 (evening) 26 all day or 27th all day long.

Neil and  Angie are already signed up for helping out so gimme a shout on my BB at 514-515-9389 since I am still living at the parents.

Off Topic: Will see about getting my PBEM character done tonight. Marie brought my books so will do the character tonight.

Peace Out!