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Still around, mostly
Jul. 23rd, 2009 08:00 pmStill here, although it took me a while to recover from the New York/Vermont trip and Anthrocon. My internal clocks were really thrown off; I've underestimated just how much my internal schedule needs the weekend gaming to keep things organized.
And speaking of organization, I'm getting things together for Gencon. I'm pulling together Legend of the Five Rings cards, going through older stuff to dig out reprints for the new base set, and planning on putting together a deck for the storyline tourney this year. I've also got some fresh deck backers set up, although I'm still deciding which backers will go on which deck.[0] For one deck, I'll be using artwork of Kitsune Aiko by Heather V. Kreiter and for the other deck I'll be using Argyle's Hedonism Emporium by Steve Argyle.
In other news, my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vaughn_r_demont has released another e-book, this one a 120-something page (in PDF, anyways) novel priced at $5.95 called "The Vampire Fred: Wicked Game." It's in the same setting as Vaughn's "Last Paladin" stories, known colloquially as The City, and reimagines vampire mythology for said setting. It's about an office drone named Fred Tompkins who, following an unpleasant accident with a sports car, was saved from death by the car's driver by being turned into a vampire. (In the vampire's defense, the last time he drove a car they had about a 20mph top speed, so he wasn't quite prepared for the horsepower under the hood.) He's trying to get by with his existence as best he can, still working his office job to cover the expenses of his freeloading sire (whom he's developing an uncomfortable crush on) and blood from the slaughterhouse, when the vampire community the two of them have been avoiding for so long comes looking for him in its own twisted way. For those of you who aren't going to be satisfied by just the blurb on the website and my pitch, I also have to offer a review + story sample and an excerpt provided by the author on the e-publisher's LiveJournal community.
And I think I'm spent, brain-wise. Just getting ready for the weekend's gaming stuff. So I'll catch up with you folks later.
[0]-- After the Spirit Wars expansion for L5R when the company was forced to change the design on the backs of cards, a tradition was started where people would put clear card sleeves on their decks but slide in other cards to cover up the back. This is fine, as long as the cards used are all identical and aren't going to be confusing (and since then, they've put in an addendum to that rule that the cards used can't be legal in the current environment). As time's gone on, artists for the game have gotten permission to produce and sell prints of artwork (some from cards, some not) perfectly sized to serve this purpose, which are colloquially known as 'deck backers.'
And speaking of organization, I'm getting things together for Gencon. I'm pulling together Legend of the Five Rings cards, going through older stuff to dig out reprints for the new base set, and planning on putting together a deck for the storyline tourney this year. I've also got some fresh deck backers set up, although I'm still deciding which backers will go on which deck.[0] For one deck, I'll be using artwork of Kitsune Aiko by Heather V. Kreiter and for the other deck I'll be using Argyle's Hedonism Emporium by Steve Argyle.
In other news, my friend
vaughn_r_demont has released another e-book, this one a 120-something page (in PDF, anyways) novel priced at $5.95 called "The Vampire Fred: Wicked Game." It's in the same setting as Vaughn's "Last Paladin" stories, known colloquially as The City, and reimagines vampire mythology for said setting. It's about an office drone named Fred Tompkins who, following an unpleasant accident with a sports car, was saved from death by the car's driver by being turned into a vampire. (In the vampire's defense, the last time he drove a car they had about a 20mph top speed, so he wasn't quite prepared for the horsepower under the hood.) He's trying to get by with his existence as best he can, still working his office job to cover the expenses of his freeloading sire (whom he's developing an uncomfortable crush on) and blood from the slaughterhouse, when the vampire community the two of them have been avoiding for so long comes looking for him in its own twisted way. For those of you who aren't going to be satisfied by just the blurb on the website and my pitch, I also have to offer a review + story sample and an excerpt provided by the author on the e-publisher's LiveJournal community.And I think I'm spent, brain-wise. Just getting ready for the weekend's gaming stuff. So I'll catch up with you folks later.
[0]-- After the Spirit Wars expansion for L5R when the company was forced to change the design on the backs of cards, a tradition was started where people would put clear card sleeves on their decks but slide in other cards to cover up the back. This is fine, as long as the cards used are all identical and aren't going to be confusing (and since then, they've put in an addendum to that rule that the cards used can't be legal in the current environment). As time's gone on, artists for the game have gotten permission to produce and sell prints of artwork (some from cards, some not) perfectly sized to serve this purpose, which are colloquially known as 'deck backers.'
