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[technoir]

Okay first off a brief update.

I have been working alot on writing stuff. For some reason I have been doing alot(well for me alot, as oppopsed to comic_monkey alot) of writing on various projects. I have particualrly been working on the Radio Free Eos podcast. I am trying to write enough "news" stories to have 20 minutes worth of podcast. They liked my prototype one and the only requests were to clean up the intro some(done), add some music(done) and make it longer(work in progress). The word is they will be hosting it on the dawning star website. When it is up i will post something so folks can go see why I have not been on coh most of the last week.

Also getting some snippets of writing on other projects. I dont know where the creative energy is coming from but I am running with it.

I have been reading alot on Shadowrun setting stuff on the gaming front. I am getting into it again and love the setting. I dropped out of it for a couple of years and they kept the setting changing and growing so there is a lot to catch up with. I was interested to see they formalized something people speculated on back in the day. Earthdawn and Shadowrun are in the same universe. Some of the major mystical players existed in both game settings. Shadowrun is the sixth world. Earthdawn is the 4th. I may have to track down Earthdawn stuff to see what kind of differences there are.

I watched the first half of the first season of dark angel thanks to aveareya. Good little show. The writing is not bad. Some predictable bits here and there but very cyberpunk.
I am building floon for the larp season. I really want to see how some things end.

oh well update over.

edit:oops first version had mark up issues.

Comments

[aveareya.livejournal.com]

you should edit this - it makes no sense - it's making me crazy!

[technoir.livejournal.com]

better now.

[touchstone.livejournal.com]

The Earthdawn and Shadowrun connection was always pretty tight, I thought - at least if you look at the novels or the published adventures. Particularly the Harlequin campaign, which actually includes Shadowrun characters fighting Horrors.... And a few of the dragons actually appear in both games.

I love the Shadowrun setting, though it has some gamemastering challenges for running an interesting long-term game. Also, the system is...quirky.

[msrlapin.livejournal.com]

And the differences were very, very significant. If I remember correctly, the systems were 100% incompatible. Owie.

I alsost hate to say it, but if there was ever a system that needed d20... if nothing else, just to formalize the continuity.

[technoir.livejournal.com]

It is quirky. I think the forth edition may clear up some of that. Not that I can find a copy grumble. I especially liked the magic system. It was a different handling of magic than any other that I had seen. instead of slots or so many points a backlash system.

I began playing shadowrun before Earthdawn came out. I suspected when it did that it was related, but I never read it. I now know that alot of the elven charicters are survivors of the Earthdawn continuity.

[technoir.livejournal.com]

D20 shadowrun? You need to put down the crack pipe. D20 does medival fantasy reasonably well. I will play a fantasy game in another system some day. Perhaps hero system. The problem is whenever you suggest doing a fantasy game everyone thinks D&D and pulling their minds away from that is difficult.

What D20 does not do well is guns and vehicles. And damnit I am growing tired of this D20 everything nonsence. sometimes a game needs to have a custome system to reflect the nature of the game and its differences. Deadlands d20 is an abomination before god and man. The first system is a bit clunky but got did it have flavor. What about the game Feng Shui? Fun game that d20 could not do. Shadowruns magic system is unique and interesting. I could maybe see rifts d20 just because rifts core system ripped off old D&D anyway.

[tomdpimp.livejournal.com]

Thank you! As a huge Deadlands fan, the D20 system ruined the system. There should never be a universal die. Deadlands original system really curb power gaming. You specific strengths and weakness; no balance.

[comic-monkey.livejournal.com]

And dude Radio Free Eos rocks. I read through the second episode this morning and it is great. The "psuedo-wester/Blues" vibe is very cool.

Had an idea for it: Pathfinder's Darkling sighting of the week. Each episude have a reported darkling sighting (darkling's stole a cow, darkling probed some old drunk guy), some of which are obviously false and some of which could be vaasi activity.

[technoir.livejournal.com]

Thats an excellent idea. I am so on that.