For reasons I may get into one day I recently downloaded an electronic text version of the complete works of William Shakespeare. (For the record, I obtained it from the gutenberg project — www.gutenberg.net.) Anyway there’s something darn peculiar about…
I’ve just finished reading Al Franken’s “Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them”. I read this book after considerable internal debate. I know I pretty much agree with Franken’s point of view, since I’ve read snippets of “Rush Limbaugh…
Another long ramble on EverQuest and game design… About a month ago my wife and I returned to EverQuest after a hiatus of about eighteen months (we’ve actually been free of the dread addiction for nearly two years if you…
A friend of mine pointed me to Greg Costikyan’s blog: Anyway I found this snippet on his blog: Player 1: hey bitch gimme buffs Player 2: Sirrah! Dost thou address a lady thus? Player 2 is roleplaying; Player 1 is…
As anyone who is close to me knows, I play a game called “EverQuest”. EverQuest (or “EQ”) is an addictive role-playing game — sufficiently addictive that there is at least one “EverQuest Widows” group run by people whose partners, loved…
Ideal resolution systems for RPGs ought to have a large “sweet spot”. What’s a sweet spot? Well, if you use 3d6 (the way GURPS and Hero System do) then your “sweet spot” is the range of “difficulties” represented by having…
I’m currently working on enhancements to One Two Red Blue’s “Manager | Builder | Stage” toolset. This is a multimedia presentation system used by most of our clients. It’s written using a lethal combination of Macromedia Director, Flash, and RealBasic.…
First of all, I discovered this service* because I was searching for information on old friends I hadn’t heard from in ages. I discovered the link to Blogger.com on Wesley Phoa’s blog. No link! Use google.com 😉 Why would anyone…