http://gonegaming.today.com The place to go for all your gaming gabbing Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:56:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I find that I may not be able to post for a bit, starting Friday and continuing for about a week and a half. I also may be moving to a 5 per week schedule to avoid writing lots of drivel filler. I may try to plan out posts ... http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/29/scheduling-where-to-go-part-i/ When creating NPCs I try to find ways to make them memorable to the players, and often I'll do that by the choice of language they use. Accents, funny pronunciations, tone, and strange speech patterns all come into play. Today I want to focus on some of these ways to ... http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/26/verbal-and-body-language-of-memorable-npcs/ So, McCain decided to suspend his campaign so he could deal with the economy. I guess he's decided that it's finally time for him to brush on what the economy is, go back to the Washington he hasn't been to in ages, and stop the campaign events he's had for ... http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/25/screw-you-guys-im-going-home/ One sentence rant, I promise. http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/23/i-cant-hold-it-in-any-longer/ So far I have yet to find a role-playing game that viscerally "got" a real feeling of martial arts combat, allowing blocks, dodges, and counters, and integrating that with grappling. I feel like Jade Empire kind of got it, but that's a video game, which allows real time fighting you just ... http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/22/kung-fu-fighting-part-i/ Almost without fail I have found that Power Gamers have been the death of any attempt at role-playing. They refocus the game away from story, plot, and character depth, instead focusing on systematically trying to destroy the game world's coherency. I honestly have no idea quite how to deal with ... http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/21/power-gamers-evil-or-malicious-or-maybe-misunderstood/ I may cause a heart attack in those who know me, but lately I've been trying to teach myself some things about basic html, fiddling around with some of the tools in Word for doing nifty things with your documents, and generally teaching myself a few new things about basic ... http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/19/you-can-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks/ In politics there are some fundamental treatises that everyone should either have read, or at least skimmed the Cliffs' Notes version of, such as Plato's Republic, or John Locke's Treatises of Government, or the Federalist Papers. It's hard to have a discussion about the fundamentals of a polity without having ... http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/18/john-locke-and-robin-laws-robins-laws/ I have a weekly Changeling game, with five characters, some of whom share similar tastes and interests, some of whom are wildly divergent. Inevitably, some characters will receive more focus during a session, as there is only so much plot one can fit into any time period, and only so ... http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/17/all-things-to-all-people-all-in-good-time/ The title of this post refers to an old Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson, where an old Indian is showing the little Indians the only piece of the buffalo the Indians don't use, a joke off of the often repeated bit of myth that "Indians used every part of ... http://gonegaming.today.com/2008/09/16/this-is-the-only-part-of-the-buffalo-we-dont-use/