I have at least five or six started blogs right now, some are harder to write than others apparently. And there is movie clips from different travels and events that need to be sorted out and edited, two dance nights and one karaoke night.
And on top of that I wanted to write a little piece about the CoC scenario Lighthouse and try and do a recap of sorts of yr events that transpired on that mist covered island. Another related project is to start chronology the longest Rolemaster camping I have Game-mastered and retelling the trials and tribulation of the characters, though much of the information still remains missing I will set up and map part on the role-playing part of the site and the people can if they want partake in the discussions surrounding the project, this project has borrowed from many published campaigns and grew out of my idea of expanding on the world engulfing Lore that exists in Shadow World and adding some new and exiting twists to the story. Too bad I don’t socialise with the people that where involved with that campaign so much any more. But the small notes I still have left is a suitable starter point and will be enough to get a skeleton together and I will have to flesh out the details that I don’t remember.
The HBK blog post I find the hardest to write because it has been such a big part of my life for so long, and nothing will ever come close to the emotional level I feel watching HBK preform.
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Next week I will probably run the Ghost Lights scenario with my regular gaming group, and there might be enough other people to run it a second time as well. I had plans to run this scenario earlier a few months ago, but peoples schedules weren’t compatible at all. So now I just need to copy all the handouts and set a definite date, all this after I get back from Luleå next week. But more on the trip to Luleå and the other things related to that trip in a later post.
So Ghost Lights check list reads as follows
- Handouts
- Go through the music selection again
- Prepare the different clues and rumours for the characters
- Find some nice images to set the mood for the scenario
- Book a time to run the scenario
Why does time go by this fast, It feels like it was yesterday the NFL season started and now its over. Stayed up all night Sunday and watched the Super Bowl maybe Ill do a quick write-up of my thoughts and feelings surrounding the actual pageantry that is the Super Bowl.
On Monday we also experienced a complete party wipe in Complete Masks of Nyarlahotep, so we are taking a 3-4 week break form the campaign while the GM finalizes his contingency plans for our continued investigations. We have played a year and a half so far, with 40 or 41 sessions so we all have had lots of great moments, I’m probably going to do a complete write-up about the actions from my characters perspective and how he viewed the events that lead up to his untimely demise and all the friends he made and lost during our adventure. The party wipe where semi planned as we had dug ourselves into a big hole which we couldn’t escape alive.
But this small break allows us to run a few one night scenarios, and first up is me running Ghost Lights which I have discussed here before. I just need to sort out all the handouts and book a date for the four players that the adventure demands.
I also have been accepted into the closed Beta for Battlefield: Bad Company II so I have to make some time to play that game as well and post my thoughts on the game barring that the NDA doesn’t forbid it.
I’m gonna start off that this isn’t the follow up post to the 2008 recap, I don’t feel like finishing that post at the moment but that’s in progress as many other posts.
This is just gonna be a short summary of the last few weeks, the new year started out with a SNÖKON and I had a blast lots of fun scenarios. A shame that people had gotten sick but that’s nothing to do about that stuff. A special thanks to the team “femme fatal” who let me join their group as I didn’t have a scheduled game, and this alos let me play a scenario whom a friend of mine wrote and game mastered. I unfortunately missed the play testing session so this gave me a chance to actually play the scenario.
Looking forward to when we continue playing the complete mask of Nyarlathotep, probably in a few weeks which gives me enough time to actually physically write the letters that my character will send home to his lovely wife trying to explain his actions, most of the first letter is already written just need to clean it up a bit. And also make some journal entries about the trip so far, so we don’t lose track of the main plot, as we tend to get sucked up into character playing and that’s my main reason why I play. The last session we where a few people short and nothing particulary where planned so we just interacted with each other and the other passagers on the ship thats taking us over to England.
On a related role playing note I’m probably gonna try and put together a few games myself in 2009 giving time and inspiration. The ideas I’m tossing around now are a fantasy setting based on an isolated area of Terry Amthors “Shadow World”, that will be more a low tech, dirty no magic and superstition tale about human suffering. For that I will probably use a simplified version of Rolemaster, cutting down on the majority of the skills and such. My other idea for a fantasy game is doing a more down to earth historical setting based around the medieval Britain, using Pendragon as a base, but that will take a longer and more work on my part studying history and getting comfortable with the setting.
The last few weeks have been overrun by schoolwork lots of assignments due and deadlines missed, feels like im getting through It all in the end.
Ive gotten to see a few movies these lsat few weeks here are some honerable mentions
First out are Wind Chill heard it was crap but gave it a shot and I really liked it, my girlfriend got really scared and even got nightmares from it. I admit i jumped a few times during the movie but that’s not difficult as I scare easily from loud sudden noises as such. But overall the movie where enjoyable. There is a similar movie called Penny Dreadful that we have started watching but had to cut it short needed to go to a party this Saturday, had a nice time at the party BTW.
Rise of the Footsoldiers this is a grim movie, the violence is realistic and brutal. I really liked the movie and the story it told, got more understanding of why Britain is the way it is now because of its history but all in all a enjoyable movie. On the same topic we watched American Gangster which I also liked, I like Denzel even though he only have a few different characters that he portrais but I enjoy them.
