How I Spend My Vacation

[ultranos]

I, uh, might have just spent the entire day hacking on mechanics. My head hurts, and I'm arguing with LyX to stop throwing TeX errors randomly when compiling things that worked fine 30 seconds ago, dammit.

BUT BUT BUT! It's getting closer to completion! My friend whom I've roped into statting out the canon character NPCs is chewing through stats and showing me things and both of us are amazingly happy when we can make Teyla into the scariest damn faceman in the history of ever.

And I'm grinning like a loon because I'm hoping it doesn't suck. And I've been playing with CSS and have the website to host the silly thing almost done (like 95%). And oh god, it's 74 pages already and I'm not done yet.

(And I have to be honest that some of the news coming out about SGU is making me cackle, because I seem to have statted out an NPC who is a female, Chinese-American Navy sniper and I don't know anything about her and I already love her madly.)

Comments

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

You know, I cannot WAIT to see this. Do I get to read through it and nitpick it all to hell and try to break the rules? Pretty please? Because that's FUN.


Oh god, YES. Please. I was seriously hoping you'd would volunteer for that. Because I am writing this as a draft and THINGS WILL BREAK. :D And I need to know what, so I can FIX IT.

ETA: Er. Did I mention I'm a geeky kind of gamer who really LOVES trying to do that sort of thing? And that it's actually a compliment that I want to tear through your entire rules system? Because I commented and then realized that it could come across REALLY badly. *facepalm*

Hee, nope, I'm the same way. And yes, I took it as a compliment. :)

[havocthecat]

Yay! I get to break a gaming system!

Mr. Havoc's ex-roommate was trying to come up with an alternative set of rules to something in a Vampire: the Masquerade LARP and asked Mr. Havoc and I for our opinion. Then he got mad when we tore it to shreds in about five minutes. Hehe.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Hee. See, I WANT you to rip it to shreds! That's what playtesting is FOR!

My friend has written a tabletop system that we're currently playing. I think he's revised it at least four times already, since August. Each time, the running joke is that "Elf is no longer a class".