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Housemates and I are watching the new Dr. Who. I have no idea what is is with us and time travel. We liked Journeyman, they liked SCC (which I...haven't watched yet, due to extreme hosage), and now we're crunching and grinding our way through space and time. (I will reiterate for those who played the IAP tenday that I am, in fact, Not A Time Lord. Can we please stop with that joke yet?)
They also got introduced to Firefly last night, and thus the concept of Canadian Actor Bingo. That was hilarious. Now all that's left is for me to finally get off my ass and watch more BSG beyond the miniseries. I will. Really. I've got copies and everything.
As referenced in my last post, I've got two ideas for tabletops percolating in my head. One is space pirates, the other is a steampunk Lovecraftian horror game. Unfortunately, the two systems I know best are DnD and Shadowrun, neither of which lend themselves well to either setting. So I've been reading the d20 Modern and d20 Future books in hopes that I can get something out of them. The space pirates seems most likely to work; the steampunk Lovecraft one will take a bit of tweaking, no matter what system I use, since I'll probably draw a lot of the Cthulhu mythos out of Chaosium's version, and I have yet to find another system that is d100 based that doesn't suck.
The apocafic is currently in the hardcore editing phase. The phase where I ruthlessly take a machete to it and ask myself "dear god, what was I thinking?". Which is good, because I'm vaguely terrified of the characterizations of some characters, since I'm deviating from standard quite a bit and absolutely need to make sure I can back it up while keeping some other characters completely bewildered about this drastic personality shift.
( And now, some SG AU rambling )
They also got introduced to Firefly last night, and thus the concept of Canadian Actor Bingo. That was hilarious. Now all that's left is for me to finally get off my ass and watch more BSG beyond the miniseries. I will. Really. I've got copies and everything.
As referenced in my last post, I've got two ideas for tabletops percolating in my head. One is space pirates, the other is a steampunk Lovecraftian horror game. Unfortunately, the two systems I know best are DnD and Shadowrun, neither of which lend themselves well to either setting. So I've been reading the d20 Modern and d20 Future books in hopes that I can get something out of them. The space pirates seems most likely to work; the steampunk Lovecraft one will take a bit of tweaking, no matter what system I use, since I'll probably draw a lot of the Cthulhu mythos out of Chaosium's version, and I have yet to find another system that is d100 based that doesn't suck.
The apocafic is currently in the hardcore editing phase. The phase where I ruthlessly take a machete to it and ask myself "dear god, what was I thinking?". Which is good, because I'm vaguely terrified of the characterizations of some characters, since I'm deviating from standard quite a bit and absolutely need to make sure I can back it up while keeping some other characters completely bewildered about this drastic personality shift.
( And now, some SG AU rambling )
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