Weekends: Planning for 5/7-8
I’ve a couple things coming up this weekend. Of course there’s Mother’s Day on Sunday, have to keep that in mind. We’ve been talking about going out to breakfast Sunday morning. Should be fun. *grins*...
View ArticleWeekends: Planning for May 14-15
Going to be a bit rushed this weekend, I think. I want to try to get as much writing done as possible (especially getting the next days of “To Catch A Goat” on Saturday and Sunday) but there’s a...
View ArticleSerialized Fiction and Story Arcs
We’re coming to the end of the fifth story arc of Rumors of War, and I’m working on “To Catch A Goat” to serve as a parallel. One of the thoughts that’s gone through my mind is how to have them...
View ArticleWeekends: Planning for May 21-22
There are going to be a lot of disappointed people, come Sunday. I’m old enough to remember a couple mass-suicides that took place around significant calendar events — there was the comet, the year...
View ArticleLife: The Great Apartment Hunt
Instead of working on the comic last night, I spent the night looking up possible apartments for when cookiemonger and I go apartment-hunting tomorrow. That’s meant both as an excuse and an...
View ArticleThe Apartment Hunt, Continued
I called around to the places on the list I created, and I actually got a couple pretty friendly people. I got as much information as I could, though I went through to voicemail on a couple of them,...
View ArticleThe Virtue of Planning Ahead
Let’s take a hypothetical situation. Let’s call it a company. We have a production team and we have a sales team. Sales receives orders and production fills orders. It’s a nice little setup, it means...
View ArticleRumors of War: Some Things Change
Since plowing through a bunch of Homestuck, I’m pumped to get back to work on Rumors of War. It’s been a while, uh, a couple months looking back now, since I did any work on the comic itself. I thought...
View ArticleWotSSoM: Updated Card Game Rules
Updated Player Powers for December (Dec 10, 2012) You can see I’ve updated the “player powers” for my card game, War of the Seven States of Magic. “Player Powers” is a deliberately vague term referring...
View ArticleAbout Me: I Feel Fantastic
I have been really tired the last umpteen weeks, and today started no differently. I woke up slowly, ate breakfast, and shuffled off to work. I got my mugful of water and sipped away. I worked through...
View ArticleCampaign Planning Practice
About a week ago, I made a list of all the tabletop roleplaying games I could remember participating in over the last ten years. The list actually turned out a bit longer than I expected, but that...
View ArticleThe Game-Changer
Why am I so glum today? It might be the impending end of the new Rumors of War comic. It might be that I did my taxes yesterday — actually, finishing our taxes was relaxing considering I spent a chunk...
View ArticleMighty Morphing Megadungeon
I would be lying if I said I haven’t devoted a long time to deciding where *I* would like the campaign to go. But there was this thing about staying the course… I’ve been looking at all kinds of...
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