The Drawing Board
Well I am glad to see the RPGHub has made a lot of headway and that everyone has been quite responsive to it. As you can see we have had a few tweeks here and there. I call it our trapped demon who we keep contained through various runes entrapped in eternal slavery. We are getting some reviews in and suffering bouts of carpel tunnel syndrome but we are getting more meat in which is important. So what’s cooking lately? Well glad I asked myself this.
I have some updates still to posted for the Till Death do Us Part campaign. So don’t worry as that’s going very strong despite our crazy schedules. It’s just that rather then tiny smidgets of updates I would rather have something more substantial to put in place. The other campaign is on some hiatus due to scheduling, life, work, etc so that may come down till something more substantial can be put in place. The goal is to keep things active and not collecting the virutal dust unless it’s had a good run.
Till Death Do Us Part has been quite fun in that it’s a lot like a continuous novel for people to read. Sometimes I look at it and without the OoC roles or questions it makes for an interesting read. Sometimes things like that can take away from a game in the sense where your wondering where the gaming per se is coming from. But all choices, character interactions are indeed up to the player. You don’t want a scenario of the player character being played by the DM. It’s not fun for them and not fun for you either cause their not happy. It’s a delicate balance with the method I am trying. I wouldn’t say it’s the ideal methods for Pbem’s.
Me and the fellow Montreal crew have begun our friday night game nights. I am hoping to get some pictures in next time and to include them in reviews of the games we play. Now were not always going to be playing board games all the time as I do want to get some “in person” role playing with the potential of getting our Toronto peeps involved via Skype and the glory of omni directional mics. It works as we have done it before and who knows, it might make for some good colums to help others get a grasp on it and dealing with the intricacies. But the idea is there that we want some in person gaming down the line. I have some ideas and if we get others virtually to play I have been checking out Obsidian Portal which is a handy game tracker.
Here on the RPGHub we kind of just put some things together in that area as basic pages so features, conveniences are things that I would like to maybe put in so our campaigns are very manageable. Of course this functionality maybe already in WordPress. I’m still discovering things. But I think it’s worth checking out for everyone and I will be sure to use it for my next game. Till Death Do Us Part started on PBWorks which as a wiki is functional but with very basic features. Wizards of the Coast had a community site so you can create campaign pages, etc however at the time of the beta release I personally found all the text manipulations sub par and frankly embarrassing that this was even considered beta. I might be harsh on this but some things are just common sense as basics in the Web 2.0 sphere.
As far as RPG games I would like to get running. I have a Cthulhu game I want to do however Curt has his Cthulhu game going so expressly avoiding having a conflicting game at the same time. But I have had my eye on getting Exalted going as I already made some headway into prepping a game for this as well as other World of Darkness games like Hunter: The Vigil. I see a lot of potential there and it has my interest. So it’s a matter of pulling up the pants and doing it.
Oh and before I forget our new Annual event The Stars are Right went very well. A nice group of friends and getting together in wicked costumes. Grats to Curt and his girlfriend Amanda for winning the couples contest for best costume. We have some ideas brewing with our The Stars are Right event for the future so it may expand / evolve into something more. I don’t want to go into more details then that as I don’t want to promise anything we can’t pull off so maybe we’ll have more news on this evolution down the road. But pics of our night and us playing Zombies!! in our costumes are coming. Also a big thank you to Neil and his girlfriend Angie for hosting this annual event.
There you have it folks. Just a little bit of what’s going on a bit with the site, our ideas and some of my projects.
