The State of Things

All's well in general. Christmas was good, if tiring. New Years was reasonable relaxing. I missed out on my attempt to see Eragon.

Still playing World of Warcraft to eat up idle time at home and making slow progress in Final Fantasy XII, which seems fine though the controls feel a little odd yet. No plans for a new gaming console as I haven't seen any games to urge me in that direction yet. Besides, I built a new computer a few months ago and I'm getting finances back in shape after that. ;)


Offline is still a mixed bag. Enjoying the Witchcraft game(s), and all but sleeping through the D&D Middle Earth one. Heck, my mage there is at about 2/3 HP simply because of a run in with constitution-draining undead, and it's another level-and-a-half or so before anyone in the group could learn Restoration.

Online is so-so. 7th Sea is picking up after some disruptions, hopefully that's a good sign. The MUCK seems to have been highly populated over the holidays, but it hasn't led to much more involvement on my part. There's an election coming up there that rivals real world politics in its depressing outlook as far as I'm concerned - choosing a mayor from three characters that all seem unfit to me.


Still bouncing around an idea I had some time back for a Star Wars campaign. While I originally thought it might be best started by throwing characters into chaos, I've had some second thoughts. That was seems good at getting the characters together with a common goal, but it also pushes the main plot immediately. On the other hand, I could do some smaller things before getting to that. It would give players more time to get familiar with the system and build a little more backstory for the characters. On the other hand, it would be harder to establish why Jedi and non-Jedi might be working together on a continuing basis. Hmm. Pondering this, even though it may be moot (as I've had this idea for over a year now and haven't done anything with it).

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  1. northawkeJanuary 3, 2007 at 2:02 PM

    for what it's worth, in my book Eragon should be a DVD movie. Saw it in the theatre, wasn't terribly impressed. Jeremy Irons was the high point of the movie for me. The CG was good. The rest of it... having seen it, I wish I'd rented it for $4 instead of spending $9 - if that tells you anything. I haven't read the book, though - maybe it would mean more if I had. back to work for me! :)

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  2. kyn_elwynnJanuary 3, 2007 at 3:10 PM

    From what I hear. Reading the book gives less appreciation of the film. (One of those, it's aneat story that's popular with the fantasy crowd, but movie audiences won't wanna put up with nuances and subtlties, so let's cut out large portions and skip to the action) Blah. What about the other campaign setting you had and threw at me? (That I sundered)

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  3. marinredwolfJanuary 4, 2007 at 7:36 AM

    Hmmm. Pity. Guess I won't worry about it too much. I've heard a couple reports here from people who liked it. But then, I had lowered my expectations about to the level fo the D&D movie, so I'm not sure how I could have been other than pleasantly surprised. ;)

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  4. anonymousJanuary 4, 2007 at 9:43 AM

    you might have enjoyed it, then... D&D is the movie it most resembled, and it frankly was a bit better than D&D (if only due to Jeremy Irons... ;) he did a good job in this one)

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