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I don't think I ever met a soup I didn't like. Back in college at Chicago, I used to go into the Food Life eatery underneath the Hancock Building around 10:30 am on cold days before exams, order the "Bottomless Bowl of Soup," and proceed to eat soup and study until the place closed. All-day soup...

One of my favorite swashbuckling enablers are the famous Swashbuckling Cards ( http://www.scratchfactory.com/Resources/SwashCards.pdf ). The key rules mechanic associated with these cards is that they do not require die rolls . What makes the system work is their simplicity: You want to do X...

Rhu-brew is a beer with rhubarb fermented in, so it has all the good qualities of beer (head, fizz, amber color, etc.) with a nice, tart, not-too-beer-like flavor.

Favorite beer: hard to pin down. Favorite style: English bitter. It's what ale was before it got complicated. Bitter also makes a great gaming beer, because it is flavorful enough to stand up to pizza and chips, but is a nice, low-alcohol session beer (perfect for long gaming session). That...

4nd so it begins...

Polar oceans with equatorial plains is a perfectly reasonable planetary configuration (near as I can figure--yes, I am a planetary geologist, no, I have not had my coffee yet). Rather than relying on a large tilt in the planet's axis (obliquity), you could imagine a very warm planet (close to...

Howdy All! The good news: I'm back from the far east (Singapore and Vietnam) which prevented me from coming to this game day. The better news: My travels continue to inspire game ideas. Next time there is a Boston/Providence/NE area game day, if there's space, I will be offering both an...

I suppose this explains why UMD (skull) is a charisma-linked skill....

Argh! I am going to be out of town both weekends (leaving for Singapore on the 17th of May and returning on June 3rd). Looks like the astounding Antarctic one-shot (?) will have to wait for the next Game Day. : -(

Thematic enemies make for a coherent campaign, I find, whereas repetative enemies make for a dull campaign. Think about opponents faced in action movies or novels: baddies tend to come in one general flavor (cultists, fascists, criminals, insectoid aliens, etc.) with many sub-flavors (cultists...

Howdy All-- Aye, I've been back in town since the end of January. Been doing the whole re-entry thing: * Cars: they're everywhere...they move very fast. * Cell phones: don't do the annoying radio crackle thing, but the beep. Lord, they beep. * The stove: doesn't require priming or the creation...

Howdy All! I know it's double-dipping to do so, but I thought I'd post a bit that I wrote for an educational "blog" for gradeschoolers and K-12 teachers in RI I've been working on as part of my gig as a Rhode Island Space Grant Fellow. Some of this might look a little familiar, and if the tone...

Today was a day of rest for the team after finishing the scrub-down of the last of the tents. The ice-breaker is finally in port (we flew over it on the Ross Ice Shelf on the way in from camp), and in its wake (literally) the penguins and seals have returned to Hut Point (a ten minute walk from...

Okay, I'd be remiss not to put in a photo or two! The first is a "hero shot" of me in a cirque overlooking Taylor Glacier at the bottom of Beacon Valley. If a look a little under-dressed it's because I just climbed up a 300 m talus slope to reach the cirque and was a bit sweaty (see future...