The Omnivorous Geek

I said awhile ago that I might talk some more about the writing I've been doing lately, which has not been fic.

I may have mentioned that I have two RPG groups. One meets on Monday nights, and one meets on alternating Thursdays and Saturdays. Yes, my schedule, so confusing. Well, the folks in my Monday night group recently discovered a site called Obsidian Portal and started posting all the campaign stuff there, and then I spread it to my other group, because it's pretty much perfectly optimized for RPG campaigns, much better than other free wiki sites.

Usually we are kind of haphazard about notes and such when it comes to our campaigns. But now, with incentive to keep it more organized so that the new sites look better, we're trying harder to keep things updated and nice-looking. Which is good, I think. Both of my groups tend to cycle through campaigns a lot. Someone will GM for awhile, and then get tired of GMing because GMing is just draining, and then we'll find a stopping point in the campaign and start another one with a different GM. I've played D&D 3.5 and Fourth Edition, Modern d20, Star Wars RPG, Paranoia, Pathfinder, Darwin's World, Hollow Earth, and probably a couple more that currently escape me. And we rarely finish something, just set it aside and plan to come back later.

So keeping all the info in an online site where we can all view it is a good idea.

My Monday group is currently doing a sort of magic realism (with parallel dimensions) Modern d20 campaign called Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas. I've been keeping the adventure log current, which is actually really fun--I just type up a lot of notes on the night of the game, then read over them and post them later. It's nice to have a record of all the stupid things we do and the hilarious in-game conversations we have.

More complicated than that, though, have been my preparations to GM a campaign of my own. This is actually one of the old ones that my non-Monday group set aside like two and a half years ago, and it's set in a fairly well-developed world that me and my Monday group have been creating together for, oh, four years now. This is Wrath & Gunfire: The Barvan Campaign. I've been writing a lot for that, looking at old old notes and rewriting stuff to make it work, and it's a lot of effort but I think it'll be worth it. I'll start GMing that game in a couple of weeks, probably. Still need to put together a "Previouslies" file of everything that happened in the last campaign. It's likely to be a bit sparse, though, since it was two years ago and I didn't take detailed notes. An artist gal in my non-Monday group even made me a gorgeous map for it, which has me all excited. Also, the old campaign was D&D 3.5 and we're switching to Pathfinder now, which is a bit of a change but not a hard one.

So that's what I've been doing. You certainly are not obligated to go read all that, but if you play RPG, it's worth checking out the Obsidian Portal site. You can use just about all of their features with a free account, though I got a paid account (Ascended, they call it), for the sake of having more space and being able to have more campaigns, because I think this is going to be our online archive and I'm gonna need it.

And for you non-RPGers, sorry for making a post that makes no sense to you. ;)

Until two days ago, this precise combination of words did not exist on teh intarwebs. Now it does.

http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0122.html

Boo-yah!

This is a very funny comic, by the way. It's Star Wars, as told through a roleplaying campaign. Based on the premise of DM of the Rings (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?cat=14), also a fantastic webcomic.

I'm all about spreading the weirdness.