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Aug. 6th, 2009
Poison Protocols and Other Histories features work inspired by a series of altered states - photos of Alamut and Dee's mirror, a Tarantella video, and a computer program that spits out a madlib every ten seconds based on Lovecraft's vocabulary. I watched it for two minutes and I just have to do something with "horrifying investigation of secrets of Green Sultan".
I think it's a pretty interesting show.
I think it's a pretty interesting show.
Being Human
Aug. 6th, 2009 07:43 pmBeing Human series one gets a terrestrial run on BBC1 starting a week today.
They naturally waited for me to buy the DVD (aussi sans pilot) after only seeing the first episode on the squnity little iPlayer screen I can manage on this ever-darkening monitor. But hey, it's good stuff. And I appreciate good stuff on my manor, even if it does make me a touch jealous.
They naturally waited for me to buy the DVD (aussi sans pilot) after only seeing the first episode on the squnity little iPlayer screen I can manage on this ever-darkening monitor. But hey, it's good stuff. And I appreciate good stuff on my manor, even if it does make me a touch jealous.
Discussing what to do at GEAS with Fifer at Black Lion lead to is noting that he doesn't know anyone who's played or run Vampire: The Requiem outside of a LARP. So naturally I took this as a challenge on behalf of the game.
But to run Vampire the way I'd want to, I wouldn't want to take four or five players at random at the start of the year based on a twenty-word pitch, which is how games are meant to start at GEAS. And, indeed, at every gaming society I've ever seen based around the academic year. I've run and seen too many five-random-people Vampire games to try that again.
And I doubt my pitch of "it's going to be bleak and might well end with everyone dead" will get too many excited takers, anyway. And I already have one game in mind where "bleak" is the operating term.
But to run Vampire the way I'd want to, I wouldn't want to take four or five players at random at the start of the year based on a twenty-word pitch, which is how games are meant to start at GEAS. And, indeed, at every gaming society I've ever seen based around the academic year. I've run and seen too many five-random-people Vampire games to try that again.
And I doubt my pitch of "it's going to be bleak and might well end with everyone dead" will get too many excited takers, anyway. And I already have one game in mind where "bleak" is the operating term.
