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Heist! Notes

Sometime around December of 2009, I jotted down some notes for a roleplaying game about heists and con games. It was called Heist!, and I sat on it, waiting for some time to flesh it out. Recently I picked up the Leverage role-playing game, and it was… very familiar. I certainly can’t say that I [...]

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The Pagan Lands

A month ago, I posted a quasi-rant about the edition wars between various versions of Dungeons & Dragons. Nothing in that rant has really changed, but I did get to play a second session of the game which prompted that post: Justin’s Pagan Lands game. Pagan Lands uses Swords & Wizardry Complete produced by Frog [...]

A Bunch of Shit

Image via Wikipedia For those new to my blog, I occasionally do review of shit on my hard drive — weird files or programs that have made their way onto one of my computers that I’m currently messing around with. It’s been a while since I’ve done one, so I’ll do a bunch of mini-reviews. [...]

Revenge of the Cyborg Barbarians

Image via Wikipedia Things have been pretty busy ’round here lately. A couple of weeks ago I took on some new job responsibilities[1] which have involved a lot of learning new things. It also involved moving from an office with a Mac computer to a cube with a Vista computer. It’s really exciting, and I’m enjoying the [...]