Thursday, October 28, 2010
Portable App: URL Gather
URLGather is a nifty app that sits on your USB drive and let's you save all of your bookmarks from all of your computers, etc. on it. Just stick it in a flash drive and open it up to access your saved bookmarks. Very nifty!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Second Edition
I started running WFRP2e two sessions back, and the guys seem to be enjoying it. I think only one person in the group has actually ever played it. We went the full random route and ended up with a Halfling Rogue who everyone calls "Fat butt", Dwarf Tomb Robber, Dwarf Town Guard and Elf Rogue. When Sheena joined us she promptly rolled up a Human Jailer, which seems to fit her grandly. I ran the adventure out of the core book over the last two weeks, and we're about to start the first part of Paths of the Damned.
Combat is incredibly deadly. I think I scared them so bad with the first combat, that now they are just going to run away.
Speaking of games we've never played, Sam is about to start running D&D 4th Edition. I've rolled up a Dwarf Fighter and an Eladrin Mind Harrier, or some silly shit like that. I'm actually looking forward to it, since we played the Ravenloft board game last week, and it was kind of fun, and I've heard so many people say 4th Edition is essentially just a board game now. We'll see.
Today I found an awesome desktop calendar/events planner/to do list called Rainlendar. It's pretty slick and I locked it on the second monitor.
Finished up some school projects in Indesign and Illustrator today. I still feel woefully behind, though I don't think this is actually true.
Combat is incredibly deadly. I think I scared them so bad with the first combat, that now they are just going to run away.
Speaking of games we've never played, Sam is about to start running D&D 4th Edition. I've rolled up a Dwarf Fighter and an Eladrin Mind Harrier, or some silly shit like that. I'm actually looking forward to it, since we played the Ravenloft board game last week, and it was kind of fun, and I've heard so many people say 4th Edition is essentially just a board game now. We'll see.
Today I found an awesome desktop calendar/events planner/to do list called Rainlendar. It's pretty slick and I locked it on the second monitor.
Finished up some school projects in Indesign and Illustrator today. I still feel woefully behind, though I don't think this is actually true.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Godlike in Basic Role Playing
I ran the start of the adventure "Donar's Hammer" last night from the game, Godlike, by Greg Stolze and crowd. However, I didn't do it with the Godlike rules. Instead I used BRP and the Super Powers section.
The guys had a blast, and have requested that we run that as the next campaign. That's a good sign.
As much as I enjoy BRP, though, I wish I had run using the Godlike/ORE rules, because I enjoy them so much (and then I wouldn't have to do running conversions in my head). I think that I will switch them to the ORE ruleset when I start this game. I believe the setting is the attractive part, with system as a secondary consideration, but I think that I will have a better handle and more open design environment with ORE. We'll see.
I have ended my run of Champions on Friday night, for the nonce. The character's ran into Takofanes, but I had him concentrating his power elsewhere, so he only killed a few of them before they stopped him (they had to use the whole team, including alternate characters). I think they may have experienced actual dismay at the thought that they might not be able to stop him, and the revelation that he was only using part of his power was terrifying.
The guys had a blast, and have requested that we run that as the next campaign. That's a good sign.
As much as I enjoy BRP, though, I wish I had run using the Godlike/ORE rules, because I enjoy them so much (and then I wouldn't have to do running conversions in my head). I think that I will switch them to the ORE ruleset when I start this game. I believe the setting is the attractive part, with system as a secondary consideration, but I think that I will have a better handle and more open design environment with ORE. We'll see.
I have ended my run of Champions on Friday night, for the nonce. The character's ran into Takofanes, but I had him concentrating his power elsewhere, so he only killed a few of them before they stopped him (they had to use the whole team, including alternate characters). I think they may have experienced actual dismay at the thought that they might not be able to stop him, and the revelation that he was only using part of his power was terrifying.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Wow! Microsoft OneNote!
I haven't ever used this awesome piece of software, but I am blown away! This is the perfect GM tool.
Video about OneNote here.
I have created notebooks for each of my campaigns, and inside each of these I have created a GM screen, copies of all the PCs, NPCs, Atlas, Session Planning, XP Logs, etc. You can copy out of just about anything you have (Excel sheets, pdfs, emails, images, etc. etc.) and make you own custom notes.
I can't say enough about how much I am digging this.
Video about OneNote here.
I have created notebooks for each of my campaigns, and inside each of these I have created a GM screen, copies of all the PCs, NPCs, Atlas, Session Planning, XP Logs, etc. You can copy out of just about anything you have (Excel sheets, pdfs, emails, images, etc. etc.) and make you own custom notes.
I can't say enough about how much I am digging this.
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