craigoxbrow: (life)
2013-04-16 12:06 am
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The Conpulsion Closing Ceremony video

... is online.

If you want to go specifically to me not thanking nearly enough people but also somehow not swearing like a crazy homeless person, start at 6.30 and play till about 11.10.
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2012-05-07 12:13 am
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Yes, it's Episode XIX. No, I don't know what VII to XVIII were about.

So I'm running this. It's Star Wars a couple centuries after the movies (and not Legacy) with new heroes, new villains, and new gigantic impractical superweapons. It will, I hope, be fun.
craigoxbrow: (surly)
2012-04-20 09:12 pm

Dracula, Vampire, Vampires, Vampire Slayers

My piece on the Vampire: The Masquerade 20th anniversary retrospective.

Dracula, and the uses of him and other vampires in RPGs.

And there was a plan for Matt to run Buffy at or around GEAS over summer, but he's now thinking in other directions. So naturally I stick my hand up and say "I could run Buffy while you run something else."

I haven't done it for more than a one-shot since the heady days of TWH and at least two of the target audience haven't actually watched the show, although they liked Firefly, so I feel like I'll be guiding them around a great and much-loved gallery without a map.

So, er... anybody got an idea to spare?
craigoxbrow: (Buffy)
2012-03-08 10:27 pm

Buffy Vs... Suggestions?

My Buffy game for Conpulsion was going to be about a ghost-hunting reality show, but I see the Dead Of Night game is about a ghost-hunting reality show.

Therefore, thinking of changing it, but what to?

For reference, last year's winner was Evil Buffy, following the previous year's silly-as-possible easy-to-run Godzilla.

Other options considered include Ragnarok, Arthurian Mythology, Pirates, Predator, The Hulk, The Mummy, and The 1960s.

Doctor Who is already up against 2012, so that's taken...
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2011-11-14 11:03 am

And for our next trick... some sort of gaming thing around the end of the academic year?

The main problems being (1) it's be less than three months after Conpulsion and (2) the end of the academic year varies from person to person. But y'know, a last-weekend-on-average Saturday twelve-hour thingy would seem doable.

We even have a title.

Repulsion.

... I'm still quite tired.
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2011-11-12 10:13 pm
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Propulsion Is Done

Propulsion 2011 is done! Thank you all!

And nobody got the questions about Mythos or Chrononauts or, I believe, Mass Effect.
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2011-10-03 12:58 am
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Vampire: The Requiem is go, Uncharted not. More players in the evening than afternoon. That's fine. (sniffle)

Happy birthday dad!
craigoxbrow: (Default)
2011-09-22 12:13 am

GEAS Sunday plan thingies

Adventure! (or Hollow Earth Expedition) in World War II... or now.

Vampire: The Requiem - or V20 in theory but I'd rather have the two-standard-books version of the latter to actually take to a gaming table, though. My Masquerade always looked fairly Requiem-y anyway.

Supers, probably Icons.

Emergency fallback Doctor Who like the last two years.

That's about it, plan-wise, really. Depends on players.
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2011-09-21 08:15 pm
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GEAS 2011 Wednesdays

Now evenings only, and at Teviot, and Wednesday is New Comics Day and I missed One-Off Sunday so I looked in.

Alan's running homebrew steampunk airship pirates for six people, Phil's running a homebrew SF game for six, Euan's running some sort of homebrew real-world fantasy for four, and some new American guy's running an actual published game, specifically Scion, for EIGHT. Best of luck!

I got one inquiry about my "well, I could run various things" platform, but one is not really sufficient. Next Sunday for first regular session I will actually bring some books, I guess. Not sure which ones, though...
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2011-08-23 06:56 pm
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GEAS 2011 brainmeat thoughts

Okay, still drawing a blank on a system for Of Gods And Men and it might need a particular mix of players, so might go more straightforward and do WWII Adventure! instead. Something I can do pretty casually by comparison.

Also, dinosaurs and planes.
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2011-08-10 07:03 pm
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Hey folks, GEAS is back!

The Wednesday after I get back from TGM... and then the Sunday ten days later. Am I missing something? Like a Freshers' Week event?
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2011-04-29 07:27 pm
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Hmm...

I think seeing Thor may have given me a game idea for next year.
craigoxbrow: (Buffy)
2011-04-11 01:00 am

Nationals 2011, Day Two

This time I'm sure people had fun. Or were so sugared up and caffeinated we couldn't tell.

Despite me and another GM in my category putting the representative from Stirling at the top (which was totally not motivated by location, for reals!) they were beaten to second due to a third place in the final category, by Cardiff.

"Cardiff, huh? You could totally do a Torchwood tour while you're down there..."
"AAAAAAAAAAAGHH"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"... Win."
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2011-02-02 02:38 pm
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This cold is as nothing compared to my last cold. Nothing!

Although the effect on my sleep patterns does mean that when I saw Dave Mc In town last night I was unusually forthright about my concerns over GMing only one preplanned adventure at Conpulsion.

Off to try and sleep now. Hopefully I'll be up in time for Marchlands starting at 9pm. Tomorrow.
craigoxbrow: (life)
2011-01-24 07:23 pm

Aaagh, it's nine weeks to Conpulsion

Conpulsion. It's nine weeks to it. Aaagh.

So about time to come up with the all-important "hey you, play my adventure" pitch blurbs. They have to be short, pithy, relatively accurate, and for games I'll be able and ideally happy to GM in two months' time.

I only have to come up with one game to GM this year, as one of the events this year is IRN GM, in which you get three GURPS setting books at random on Saturday and have to run an adventure using bits of all three on Sunday. So that's my Doctor Who adventure sorted probably...

So I dunno, Buffy or Adventure! or somethin' on Saturday.

While leaving room to play Gar's Primeval demo hopefully. The Laundry game with Charles Stross there will probably be rather busy.
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2011-01-17 01:05 am
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GEAS early 2011

Right then. Playing Icons and running Doctor Who, as the brand-new player looked like she'd be keener on something lightish than Vampire quite possibly being darker than the pits of Hell.
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2011-01-04 09:57 pm
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A plan, of sorts, for GEAS this year

Offer Doctor Who of a Sunday afternoon, as 'tis simple and from here to exam time makes a thirteen-episode series pretty well.

Bring my Vampire books the first week, just in case.
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2010-12-29 05:01 pm
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Pondering GMing

The president of the local game soc posted (on Christmas Day, no less) about how some games have fizzled and some players have moved and so on, so looking at new games and spaces in existing games.

Given that I missed the start of the academic year and the traditional Grab New Players Day, so couldn't get two players to rub together for anything... should I bring along my previously unsuccessful ideas, or something else?

This is partially my traditional "why don't you just run D&D like a normal GM?" problem where not all of my ideas will appeal to the majority of potential players. But, eh, I dunno.
craigoxbrow: (life)
2010-11-04 07:11 pm
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The covenants in the increasingly theoretical Vampire game

The Council in charge of London all have their own problems, keeping them from working together as well as they once did. This has given the renegades (a coterie that looks a lot like the Council in demographic terms, but averages a few decades younger) an in to oust them.

Both sides are Invictus.

The Holy Lance of the Hawksmoor Churches and the Circle will probably take opposing sides because of each other rather than their political purposes.

No Carthians or Dragons unless someone wants to play one. Other power blocs in the city (the drug lords and slavers) are covenant-free.

I have a page about prominent mortals in my notebook.

And a page about VII... which is deliberately left blank.