tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51059162011-04-21T19:03:02.844-04:00Dark's Carnival<i>Atop the Ferris wheel you comphrehend the extent of the Mythos menace.... Lose one sanity point.</i>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-91982843802691498292007-11-23T13:14:00.000-05:002007-11-23T13:50:47.422-05:00It's CthulhutasticEvery year on Hallowe'en, I run a one-night game of Call of Cthulhu; this has been going on for about 5 years, and attendence varies from 2 - 8 people. I pull out the folder of characters who've been killed in other adventures over my GMing career, and since it's Hallowe'en, the dead can walk again (ie, players can play any dead character they fancy for the evening.) Some Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-70594366541585805782007-09-26T21:45:00.000-04:002007-09-26T22:00:44.206-04:00Fastest Hunk of Junk in the GalaxyJust a few helpful tips, for those who might find themselves in a similar situation. First, Kenner plastic holds up amazingly well over time. Seriously, there's hardly any true discoloration to 99% of my collection; I'll chronicle the exceptions later, but for now, let me say that the Falcon is still in awesome shape.However, being in my parents' garage for Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-40275062752568295622007-08-26T21:34:00.000-04:002007-08-26T22:11:58.576-04:00Gen Con 07 Come and GoneI've been going to GenCon since around 1994 or so. For the first 8 years of going, I'd toil my way up to Milwaukee with my "retailer" badge in hand, arrive at the con with a driving-induced migraine, stay one or two nights at the cheapest motel I could find, eat at Karl Ratzche's, look at all the new stuff my customers would be demanding in the coming months, and then Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-1128318731186102772005-10-03T00:56:00.000-04:002005-10-03T01:53:34.083-04:00My Big Fat Nerd PostingOr, "Why it should have been Zoe instead..."OK, yes, Serenity was awesome. Yes yes yes. I was totally 100% happy with it--except. The big except. The huge, I-knew-about-it-thanks-to-a-spoiler-but-still-couldn't-believe-it-was-gonna-happen except. Ah, Alan Tudyk... we barely knew ye.Now, far be it from me to say that beloved characters shouldn't die. I'm a role-playingCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-1101000596621858072004-11-20T19:56:00.000-05:002004-11-20T20:29:56.620-05:00FORMULA DE ROUNDUP!I won, I won, Neener neener neener!!Ahem. I won the 7th Annual Formula De tourney this year, and I couldn't be happier! It's also National Games Week 2004, an event worth celebrating no matter who you are. Dave got us signed up as an official NGW event, so all of us who played are eligible for some pretty amazingly nerdy prizes (a set of polyhedrals made out of fossilized Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-1093321561621869652004-08-23T23:23:00.000-04:002004-08-24T00:27:29.873-04:00GENCON, PART IA rundown of the gaming orgy that is Gencon. Last year I was a little lukewarm on it being in my hometown instead of in Milwaukee.... But now, I'm a convert. Indy has better parking, better hotelage (not that I need it anymore, which is also good), and--with the exception of Karl Ratzches, a fabulous German restaurant in downtown Milwaukee where I couldn't have afforded to eat Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-1076896966824634502004-02-15T20:50:00.000-05:002004-02-15T21:05:20.153-05:00Game Wish, Numero 84Ginger's askin', so I'm answerin'.What five games would you love to run/play if you had a willing group and a weekly time slot?1. Nephilim2. Brave New World3. 7th Sea4. Pendragon5. Shadowrun.I'm assuming, of course, that we mean stuff we're not already playing, such as RQ and CoC. (It's like I already got my wish...awww....) But I'd love to play in or run Nephilim. I Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-1075428049321859422004-01-29T20:48:00.000-05:002004-01-29T21:03:00.090-05:00Ooo, Iggg, Ick....Well, finally changed the template for this one; while I liked the blood red background with black type, it was hard to read and I didn't like the actual structural layout of the thing. I still want to hack the colors on this one; while the sort of seedy-burnt-orange is Cthulhu-propriate, I still feel I could do better.ADVENTURE, touted in the last posting, ended a couple Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-1061842774083819542003-08-25T16:19:00.000-04:002003-08-25T16:19:34.093-04:00ADVENTUUUUURE!!!Yes, the world must be ending, as I'm voluntarily running a White Wolf Press game for my Tuesday night group. But it's not like that! Really! No vampires, no fey creatures, and most importantly of all, no angst. Instead, it's 1930's Pulp, a genre with which I am embarassingly familiar. I love 30's and 40's detective fiction, I love B movies and serials, and I love Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-1059703942206409722003-07-31T22:12:00.000-04:002003-07-31T22:12:22.186-04:00GENCON! GENCON COMES TO INDY!Sort of like the mountain coming to Mohammed--except, of course, that Mohammed was perfectly willing for the last 8 years or so to drive up to Milwaukee for Gencon. (Perfecting the analogy, I should point out that Milwaukee's convention center is called MECCA.) Still, now it's in Indianapolis, and I'm in Indianapolis, and there's no avoiding it. I actually was kindCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-1057424170061492452003-07-05T12:56:00.000-04:002003-07-05T12:57:57.133-04:00Hmm. Been quite a while since I posted to Dark's. The reason is, though, that my gaming has been--well, not nonexistant, but horribly horribly curtailed by circumstance in the last two months. Tuesday night gaming got capped quite a while back because of class schedules, and we never got our shit together to play on another night. Cthulhu had a burst of activity at the end of May/beginning ofCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-936198492003-05-01T18:19:00.000-04:002003-05-01T18:23:51.000-04:00WISHful Thinking, again...
Game WISH for the week: How do you choose games to join or to run? What factors influence you: timing, people, system, genre, etc.? Do you weigh different factors for different kinds of games, e.g., online vs. tabletop vs. LARP? Is it a group decision or a decision you make on your own?Call me a game ho', but honestly, I'll play nearly anything. The only limiting Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-932787522003-04-26T00:02:00.000-04:002003-04-26T00:02:24.250-04:00***BZOTT!***That was the sound of the death knell of Sid (short for Siddhartha,) Curt's Cthulhu character, last weekend. I run a very low-fatality game, really, I try to keep the deaths to a minimum because I prefer a pulpy sort of approach to horror. Funnier if you keep them limping along, not-quite-dead but nearly-dead-and-more-than-half-mad. But there was no way around it for Curt, he was Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-926654302003-04-15T14:43:00.000-04:002003-04-15T14:45:24.000-04:00Another week, another zillion distractions....Another week ticks by, containing two Runequest sessions and an abortive attempt at playing Cthulhu. Plus I'm firing up the Nephilim engines yet again. I live in hope. At any rate, the Game WISH of the week has to do with reusing characters:Do you ever reuse characters from game to game? When you reuse characters, what do you bring from game to gameCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-921008402003-04-06T15:05:00.000-04:002003-04-06T15:13:08.000-04:00Game WISH for the week is as follows:How coherent do you expect a game world to be? Is a game world merely a stage for the characters, or does it have a life of its own? How deep does it need to be to satisfy you? How do you contribute as a player or GM to making the game world more coherent, if you do?As my players know, the word "coherence" doesn't often enter my games; I tend to be pretty Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-918886392003-04-02T22:50:00.000-05:002003-04-02T22:55:42.000-05:00Grand EllipseSee, it's three weeks later and Lady A has only just made it onto the taiga. I'm so pathetic. But it appears that Miss Theophilus has gotten ahead of me anyway, so it may be moot. I'm looking forward to playing an evil character in the next one if at all possible... Then I can sabatoge without guilt!RQ this weekend looks to be trying, as I've not really come up with a good Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-906020072003-03-12T14:16:00.000-05:002003-03-12T14:17:52.000-05:00The jig is up.I have GOT to figure out what is going on with Lady Anastasia Bonnet and her trip across Siberia in The Grand Ellipse. Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-898816852003-02-27T23:24:00.000-05:002003-02-27T23:24:43.496-05:00LET'S GET READY TO RUBBLE!!
::Earth Season::Fertility Week::
A voyage into the ruined city of Pavis, also known as The Big Rubble. Our heroes are making a beeline for the Garden, a small Aldryami forest in the southeast corner of the Rubble. Today is the goddess Aldrya's holy day, and the elves of the party (Eina and Enchasol) plan to celebrate at her holy grove within the Garden--also, of Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105916.post-897866752003-02-26T13:37:00.000-05:002003-02-26T13:39:09.000-05:00Dereke says I'm the best gamemaster ever.....
At last, a blog devoted to my gaming enterprises; Masks, Runequest, the Tuesday Night Flavor-of-the-Month, and anything else that strikes me fancy. I don't put it on Cautionary Tale because I do have a fair number of friends who have no interest in gaming whatsoever, but read my blog out of a sense of duty and fairness. So here is the gaming Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328549389025600208noreply@blogger.com0