Murat, Esq.'s Blog (14)

As some of you know, my major hobby is setting up anime-related events. In connection with this, I spent most of today working on a PowerPoint based multimedia presentation on anime adapted from erotic computer games for a seminar presentation I was asked to do.

This topic is actually a whole lot less racy than it sounds. See, the majority of Japanese "H-games" (games with pornographic content) have only a very tiny fraction of their content that is explicitly sexual, and that is usual

Hey, I know homebrew campaign stuff is a lot like baby pictures. You know that most people don't really care if its not theirs, but pride compells you to share anyway. I spent a chunk of this weekend fleshing out the campaign map, and want to bore you with it, as I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. I'm definitely getting better with Campaign Cartographer.

Had one this morning. The anesthetic hasn't fully worn off, dreading when it does. Oh, and the doctor tells me there is a 15% chance I'll also need oral surgery to take care of the infected abcess under the canalled tooth. Those odds aren't bad, but I'm still a teensy nervous.

Okay, we took this week off because 2 or my 4 players are away for a long Labor Day vacation. I'm working on Adventure #3. The party is real close to level 3 so I'm gearing for that level of encounter. None of them follows the Dire Cafe, so I'll bounce my ideas here.

Thus far, the party haven't left the environs of Sasserine (I cribbed the city source material from Dungeon mag's Savage Tide, but am not running the adventure path (though I plan to crib an adapted form of one of its comp

So, I've just finished DMing the second adventure, and the PCs should hit level 3 soon. One of my players, Disa, is keeping a campaign journal if anyone is interested. There is also a brief Dramatis Personae of who the PCs are

As I was heading to the subway after work today, about twenty feet in front of me on the street I saw a guy in his thirties punch a gray-haired guy in his late fifties or early sixties. The older man fell backwards, and the younger then kicked him in the head twice -- big, soccer kicks, with the leg drawn all the way back. I watched, stunned, for a moment, and it looked like the assailant was going to back away. Then he rushed forward and kicked the downed man in the head again (the older man

In my 2-3 session/month D&D game the PCs, now 2d level, are entering their second big adventure. I've come up with the following scenario, but there is a major plothole I haven't been able to satisfactorily fix.

In the first adventure the PCs met a young girl with an important destiny. Her memory has been magically sealed off. In the new adventure, the PCs must go to the local Arcane Guild to seek help in lift her curse.

The guild hall, a bigass tower, has a magical "Shadow

The fourth Die Hard movie is coming out. Here is GuyzNite's take on the whole thing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY