Dholcrist

I'm pretty excited about it. Starting bright and early tomorrow morning, I'll be participating in a Star Wars RPG game (good old fashioned pen & paper that is) for 24 hours straight. Or until we drop. Whichever comes first.

My wife was pretty annoyed when I told her we'd be gaming all day. Then I told her it was for charity. You can't argue with charity, right?

Penultimate!

Oh man, this is brilliant. A few years back me and some friends were throwing around ideas for screenplays that we were trying to write, and for some reason we got sidetracked and started watching old commercials on YouTube. Saw the Crossfire commercial, and a movie trilogy was born.

I don't know how it happened, but we must've spent over an hour throwing out characters and scenarios where these guys would actually fly around on these boards and play the epic game of Crossfire.

With Battleship and Monopoly being made into movies, it really makes me wish that we had actually written the damn things down.

Alright, quick question, what Chuck poster did you get that was so large? I've looked around for a large version of the of the Comic Con poster that they made last year, but the only size I can find is 11x17.

What'd you get?

As awesome as this looks, I do so desire something based off of the Mega Man rock opera as performed by the Protomen.

By Light's beard do I want to see that brought to life.

Really? It's the combat system relying on a turn-based component that makes an rpg an rpg, not the "role-playing" element?

I certainly understand the draw of the turn-based system of many a JRPG, but I don't see how the combat system is the biggest part of an rpg. Personally, I play an rpg for the story. It was true for all the FF's, it was true for Oblivion, Fallout, ME, Xenogears/Xenosaga, etc. Some had terrible combat systems, some were fantastic. But it was the roleplaying aspect that kept me playing.

I tried WR, but realized that it's just a full screen writing space. Something Scrivener also does, while allowing you to do a whole host of other things (if you so desire).

Hell, even Pages does that now.

Isn't this just MESH?

Gamer's Life was just terribly written, and tried so very hard to be emotional that it was like he was going to go fishing with dynamite, but accidentally only bought cherry bombs. Yeah, that probably doesn't make any sense, but whatever.

And seriously, the moral is that you should love games more than your wife? He really wants gamers to like him, doesn't he?

Wait, how serious are we actually taking this story? Isn't Woz famous for his pranks? And isn't Griffith a "big" comedian that banks off her lesser "star" power? I'm not saying it's impossible to be true, but I would not be surprised in the least if they were both intentionally hinting at marriage as nothing more than a big joke on everyone else. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they officially announced it, made all kinds of rounds together gathering publicity, and it still turned out to be a prank.

Maybe I overestimate them though.