April 19, 2006
Zomquistadors for Everybody!
I'm thoroughly enjoying the short term Deadlands game I get to play in this month. ^_^
I'm playing a bounty hunter called George. For the record "George" is a girl. She and her partner Emily are working with some other talented folks to rid the west of evilness (and also to profit; bounty hunters are big on the whole profiting thing).
Apparently Michael is so amused to be a player again he's keeping notes for us. Woo!
April 12, 2006
The picture above is the full moon outside tonight. For some reason I can't float a picture embedded with my text properly. I think it has to do with the css that's powering my menu system, but I'm too lazy to investigate right now.
I'm finding that I have more and more pictures that I want to put online, but I don't really want to individually tag them for IceFrog. Alan has said that eventually IceFrog will be able to handle inline databases, but I don't want to wait. Does anyone have any suggestions for what gallery system I should use?
When I was a kid I used to read pretty much any books I could get my hands on. I read through most of the young adult section at my local library, several times, by the time I reached my teens. I read a whole lot of questionable choose your own adventure books, since those were quite popular at the time. There was one book in particular that I remember reading over and over. It was about a circus, and not just any circus, but a circus in a D&D world. Owlbears and displacer beasts take an animal act to whole new levels of nifty. I remember loving that book. At some point the library got rid of their whole collection of chose your own adventure books. I figured I had lost it forever, since I had neither the title nor the author.
Fortunately, I have the internet. It took a while ("book and owlbear" gets you nothing useful on Google), but I eventually tracked down the book. Its called Circus of Fear and it was published as part of the Endless Quest series of adventure books that TSR put out in the 80's and 90's. I believe much of the series is set in Greyhawk. The other thing I had forgotten about the book was that the main protagonist in Circus of Fear is a young woman. She has a companion who is a young man, but the entire book was told from her perspective, not his.
Anyway, as soon as I had the title I plugged it into Abebooks and suddenly I had my pick of over a hundred and fifty copies, starting at a dollar a piece.
Naturally, I bought two.
To be fair, the book is not as brilliant as I remembered it being, but it is remarkably good considering the genre. I still love the Owlbears and I'm happy to have one little bit of my childhood back, courtesy of the internet.
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