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I'm interested in adapting some ideas found in C. S. Friedman's novel This Alien Shore. Humans reached the stars and began to colonize likely planets. Unfortunately, the FLT drive system they used caused genetic effects so that the colonists' descendants mutate into a number of different...

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool lurker, and like so many of us I only knew him by his posts and blog. That window into his life showed someone with rare courage and honesty, and a truely creative spirit. I did correspond with him over email once, in August of last year when it turned out that he would...

The exact method varies depending on the type of web browser you're using. If you are using Internet Explorer, go to the "Tools" menu and select "Internet Options". The options will appear in a window with a number of tabs; the "General" tab is the one you want. In the middle of the window is...

The Gaymers Yahoo! group (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/gaymers/) is planning a get-together for this year's GenCon Indy. All GLBT gamers (and our friends and allies) are invited. We are working on selecting a date and time. Come over to the group and participate in the poll! Happy...

My partner and I will be at GenCon all four days... as someone said, it's occasionally useful to live 15 minutes from downtown Indy! We're going to try to go to the Ennies, but we don't have any other specific plans. At the risk of hijacking the thread, I have a question: What's the best way...

IIRC, the Legends series were tie-ins for the computer RPG games based on Feist's world. You're right, they really don't stack up to the others... But I agree that all of his other works are excellent and worth the read. I would also suggest the trilogy he wrote with Janny Wurts, which go into...

It sounds like things went pretty well, then... I'm glad you had a good time with that scenario. With regard to the questions at hand: 1) Frequently, but not to excess. Yellow or brown, but PLEASE no dijon! 2) As others have said, music and lighting can do great things to set a mood (and not...

Oh, you can have multiple survivors... but more than one sane survivor indicates that the GM pulled some punches ;)

One of my favorite Classic CoC adventures, "The Crack'd and Crooked Manse," apparently started out as a gaming convention adventure. It's ideal for a one-shot adventure. I think it was printed in the collection called "Mansions of Madness", but I could be wrong. (I'm at work at the moment, so...

I give credit to good timing, and the remains of a Border's gift card ;) It's been a while since I read it, but I agree that City of Bones is good, too. Have you read The Element of Fire (her first book, I think)? I can't find a copy, and the last time I checked Amazon, it was out of stock...

I just finished re-reading Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells. It's a very interesting setting, and I really enjoyed the main characters, but I think I prefer one of her other books: Death of the Necromancer. I'm about to start Guy Gavriel Kay's new book The Last Light of the Sun. It looks...

My partner and I play in two D&D games, each meeting every two weeks. After some scheduling problems over the holidays, the two games have aligned weeks... It's feast or famine: A game on Thursday and Saturday, or no games at all.

I'm lucky enough to be a web developer for one of the best public library systems in the United States. I'm doubly lucky in that I am also using my degree (Computer Science).

As another Indy resident, I'll second that! Yats has great food at a low price (entree $5 - $6, drinks $1). It's no-frills cooking, and the menu changes daily. Bucca di Beppo is also excellent, but heed Isida's warning about portion size! If you go with less than 4 people, you're guaranteed...

Destan - I just wanted to give you my thanks for a very enjoyable read. I look forward to whatever comes next! SK

This made me laugh out loud. A lot :D Thanks for the laugh! The idea of these two being in love or flirting with each other is absolutely outside the realm of possibility. However, they do socialize together, so it is possible that Jim has had more game-related interaction than the rest of...

It might be a combination of the two. The DM has a policy that new characters come in at 3rd level so that "the player can develop the character's abilities and background." This ensures that the older PCs are always going to be more powerful than newer ones. I think that option B might be...

Honestly, I don't see this happening. Jim is this character. I agree with what you say about stating the facts (as I see them) calmly, without bashing or ganging up on the folks in question.

Thanks for the suggestions :) Once or twice a year, we have "meta" sessions to talk about the course of the game and what we would like to have happen, etc. In the last one, one of the former players expressed these concerns (managing somehow to do so in a way that it wasn't at all...

I have been playing with the same group for over 6 years. Over time, it has become apparent that one of the players is the "main character" of our story. For ease of use, let's call this player "Jim" (not his real name). Jim's character is the only one of the characters from the original group...