What........

...do you get if you spill ganja into your italian soup ?


........Rasta-fazool !

Thank you, thank you.  You're a great crowd !

Did I ever show this to you guys.....?

As near as I can figure, it's in an alternate  universe where world war III happened, and Devo won.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKD7g56DNN0

Post-post-modern-apocalypse- ;  and, if this is what the Myans are predicting for today, Sign Me Up !

Thoughts on Blog posts

So, once again, I learn the lesson that this blog at least is entirely my hobby, and that (for me) part of  hobbies pleasure, and thus motivation,  is in the lack of obligation. 

See, I've sat down to post stuff from time to time in the last couple of months, and what happens is that I realize I haven't finished the DCC review/game report, and since I don't happen to feel like doing that, I don't do anything, feeling some odd obligation to complete what I said I would, before I do something else.

So, the rest of the DCC game will have to wait for its muse, and no more lining up projects here, as opposed to my real life/career, where such is mandatory.  And, no more "up next" ends to posts.

Ahem.......

 is this on ?  (tap tap)

Wooooo - hooooo !!!!!

(cough)  Heh. (cough cough)


Thanks for putting up with that.
'night.
xxxx

Me

Mob of Morons Kill Low Level Necromancer, Save Village; Hurt Selves, Sheep and Dog

ONE OF THE BEST CON RPG RUNS EVAR.







above cover illustration stolen and vandalized without permission.  click on it to get to the publisher website







So, in an unusual move, I actually played in an RPG at a con, pre-gens and all.  Usually, I don't due to what I sensitively call the "spastic kamakazi moron" effect that selects the players in such games.

Well, to be fair, it was also run by one of my oldest and dearest DM (and friend), and he had talked it up beforehand.   And yes, it was the poison coolaide of DCC (Dungeon crawl classics) , and DAMN...that is some tasty coolaid.

See, I had pretty much decided not to have anything to do with a massive tome  "old school" $50.00 game for a variety of reasons - not least was the fact that it was a massive thick tomb, with a huge proportion of pages dedicated to MAJIK THAT IS WILD AND KAOSEY AND RELLY ZAPZAP! (more about this later. Looking at it in the context of the game, it works well, go figure)

Still, the starting premise of the game pulled me in.....balance the characters by random chance and darwinian winnowing rather than elaborate tradeoffs, advantages and limitations. In short, start four characters as a level zero clodhoppers, and go into the dungeon. See who comes out, pick a class. NOTE:  these are NOT 0 level adventurers -you know, 0 level clerics, magic users, etc.  They are zero level humans (or elves or halflings, whatever; but still zero level.  They have a career background (randomly determined) which MAY be (say) an apprentice mage or cleric, but you really really have none of the skills and benefits of that class.  You pick a class when you get to first level - or you've died, and it is moot.

Interesting !  And, low level play has always been a love of mine.  And BOY are you low level.  No class (in every sense of the word) almost no equipment, no skills, no spells no special abilities, little hope; however, you might have a hammer or pitchfork, so roll on !.  And boy was it fun. 

 Sort of played like what would AD&D be like if say, maybe Gygax AND Arneson and Hargrave played Arduin with George Romero and a bunch of 1980's games workshop metal punks while cranking Hawkwind and chewing on a mouthful of berserker mushrooms.  Well, maybe not Hawkwind. I'd hate to discourage anyone simply becuase they hate Hawkwind.  Maybe BOC.  But the rest ?  Yes.

More to come. As a teaser, the Eeeeevil necromancer had his epic kill em all spell disrupted by being hit by a thrown dog..

Yeee-Ha !