Archive for the Roleplaying category
November 30th, 2006
I’m a geek. O.K. I’m a roleplaying geek. Many of my friends are roleplaying geeks. About 15 years ago, we were on this kick where we’d keep track of the really off-the-wall things we said, usually during roleplaying games. Sometimes, the quote was something we overheard somewhere else and repeated because it “sounded” like something we’d say — you know something “geeky cool”. Then if the quotable was worthy enough, I’d have it made into a button at the next sci-fi convention I made it too.
As I was packing to move into my house, I rediscovered my stash
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Tags: bloghopping, meme, Thursday Thirteen, geek, roleplaying, buttons
September 18th, 2006
So, I may be the red head, but N2 is the stuborn one. She not only refuses to see my Point-of-view on anything ever, but she doesn’t want to work on our friendship. She’s decided that my accusations are just too hurful and she doesn’t want to deal with me anymore. She has instructed me not to IM or email her again.
SQ had me send her one last email saying “O.K. No Problem. ;)”. I kid you not.
I was like, “You know that’s just going to piss her off. I was just just not going to reply.” But SQ wanted
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Tags: dysfunctional drama, friendship, PBeM
September 15th, 2006
Some or a lot of this post may not make sense to you, dear readers. That’s fine. It’s not really for you. It’s for me, for later.
SQ noted that N2 wasn’t included in a general email I sent to several people updating them on my health. I replied that N2 hadn’t responded to my email from Sunday so I assumed that she didn’t really care one way or the other which is why I hadn’t included her. SQ’s response was to inquire as to whether or not I was sure N2 had actually gotten
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Tags: dysfunctional drama, friendship, PBeMs, rejection
July 23rd, 2006
BJ sent me this link to a collection of made-up “motivational” roleplaying posters for roleplaying geeks. The website cracks me up. Here are a few of my favorites:
Tags: roleplaying, RPG, geek, motivational posters
April 14th, 2006
To: N2
From: N
Could you at least acknowledge either way that you’re at least getting these emails, that you’re alive, etc? Tell me to shut up and go away if that’s what you want but don’t leave me just sitting here wondering what’s going on.
Talk to me.
To: N
From: N2
Talk to you? About what? Your very unfair and kind of insulting temper tantrum on me yesterday?
We’re still friends, don’t worry.. but I need to cool down still…so give me some time. 
To: N2
From: N
I’ll give you time, yes, but please take into account this perspective (as [SQ] would point out), your
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Tags: friendship, dysfunctional drama, PBeM
April 14th, 2006
I’d like to say TGIF but quite frankly the day of the week means nothing to me. The weekend may be more time alone at home to sulk and stare at an empty inbox or an unrining telephone or an IM-less Y!M.
OK for about seven hours Sunny and Queer Eye will be there to distract me a little tomorrow but then it’ll be just me and the kitties and my runaway thoughts again.
I talked to SQ last night from about 11:30pm to about 1:30 (she’s on the West Coast, you know). She could tell I was distressed and
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Tags: PBeM, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, friendship, dysfunctional drama
April 12th, 2006
Let’s get something straight right now. We all have hobbies, right? I mean, there are those of you out there who are seriously interested in WWF wrestling, golf, knitting, scrapbooking, bird-watching, and even bigfoot hunting. I don’t mock. Much. These things are important to you.
I have a tendency to put down my own hobby as being silly and my therapist tries to discourage that because it’s important to me. I try to write-off it’s importance because it’s a “game.” Obviously games are not as important as other things in life and therefore don’t
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Tags: PBeM, roleplaying, anxiety, dysfunctional drama
November 21st, 2005
People mystify me.
I simply don’t get how so many people think. Sometimes I’m able to put myself in their shoes and sometimes even when I think I understand why they think or act the way they do, I logically can not figure out why a grown person would actually do so. What I mean is that grown-ups, especially people over thirty should be beyond pettiness and spiteful vengence for preceived minor wrongs.
Recently I was in a PBeM (play-by-e-mail) game where I had several disagreements with the owner of the list. It was obvious to me that she
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October 8th, 2005
This is Izzy’s introductory post in the PBeM I joined.
Who: Izzy
Where: cockpit of the Tianlong
She’d crashed once. During the war.
That had been an unpleasant experience to say the least. Her fighter had taken an unlucky hit that had knocked out part of her propulsion system and she’d been sent spinning toward the unwelcoming view of a mountainside.
This was worse.
Cold fingers touched her forehead and came away with a sticky, wet substance. Green eyes tried to focus but it occurred to her that there was nothing to focus on. Not when her eyes were closed. Slowly,
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Tags: writing, fiction, Firefly, Serenity, Fan Fiction
October 8th, 2005
I wrote the following to be a writing sample for an audition for a Firefly PBeM game. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve had to audition for a game. Usually I go on reputation because I usually know someone. Izzy is an original character, an ex-ace fighter pilot with a history with both the Alliance and the Independents which left her liking neither.
Izzy pulled her Stetson down low over her brow as she settled into the back corner of the hole in the wall bar. The bottle of whiskey sat on the unfinished table
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Tags: writing, Firefly, Serenity, Fan Fiction, fiction
September 4th, 2005
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Today at DragonCon in the independent dealer’s room, I met Richard Tucholka, President of Tri Tac Systems (Fantastic Games & Graphics). He is collecting donations of sci-fi/fantasy-related or RPG gaming reading materials to American troops over in Iraq and Afghanistan. After all, believe it or not but geeks can be soldiers too.
You know, they can’t have a large selection of reading materials and such over there. It’s not like they can run into the Barnes & Nobles or Borders down the street. I mean, it’s hard enough to find good sci-fi/fantasy and gaming materials in
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Tags: American soldiers, roleplaying games, Iraq, Afghanistan, Support the Troops, SJ Games
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August 2nd, 2005
O.K. So last week I was talking about quiting the last PBeM I’m in. I was talking about being burnt out and such…blah blah blah.
I’ve done some soul-searching and talked a lot with SuzyQ and what I’ve decided is to not quit totally but to stop being an administrator and just be a player for awhile. I even want to give up two of my characters and just play with four.
And who knows, by Christmas, I may be itching to get bossy again.
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July 27th, 2005
I remember when the term “Gamer” meant a person, usually a geek, most often male, who spent his or her weekend nights in the basement of someone’s house with the lights dim and the well-worn, over-used game books piled about in various stages of open-ness. Dice bags and character sheets were peeking from under pizza boxes and empty soda and beer cans.
I’m always so confused now when someone refers to him- or herself as a “Gamer” because it could be anything but mostly, it turns out, it has to do with XBoxes, Multi-user online games, and joysticks and controllers.
And
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July 26th, 2005
I’m feeling kind of odd this morning. Last night I admitted to myself and SuzyQ something I hadn’t wanted to admit but had been feeling for some time. Perhaps I’ve been on the verge of this for a while.
I started playing roleplaying games late in my life in 1994. They have been a big part of my life — the creativity, the escapism, the socialness of it all. I’ve been both player and GM and I’ve both enjoyed and hated both at times. I started Play-by-email games not long after I guess. It’s sort
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Tags: writing, PBeM, roleplaying games
July 21st, 2005
When I was little, I was always making up stories in my head. I’d have conversations between characters in there. Sometimes I’d even act out scenes. Sometimes Barbies were involved, I believe.
I also played with the girl next store and we would re-enact movies we loved or pretend to be cartoon or t.v. characters and play in her backyard or my living room. I sort of outgrew that foolishness, but I did turn several of my creative musings that came from this into short stories and one really bad novel in high school.
In college, I
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Tags: writing, PBeM, roleplaying games
August 16th, 2004
I’ve been semi-looking for another RPG PBeM to play in the last few months. My X-men RPG was the only one I’ve been in for quite a while after dropping some and closing one after much disappointment. So, I was clinging to it and of course, you all know the recent drama. The X-men game has revived itself and it rolling along very nicely. New mods, new players, exciting plots. Nice. I’m much more involved in the day to day than I used to be which is good for the game and probably for
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Tags: writing, PBeM, roleplaying games
July 27th, 2004
Well, the pbem still isn’t up and running. SQ had some problems writing the email so that no one came out as the bad guy but everyone was shown as responsible for their own part, moderators and players alike. J’s email to SQ and me seemed to indicate that she accepted her part in it all and that she wasn’t sure she should remain a moderator, but when SQ and I made the decision to replace her and she saw the rough draft of SQ’s email, she got extremely defensive and was all negative and kept avoiding us
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Tags: PBeM, dysfunctional drama
July 22nd, 2004
This morning I am in danger of having a blink turn into a nap. I am so sleepy working on just 3-1/2 hours of sleep, but at least I feel less stressed out this morning about the goings on of the pbem.
I don’t know how much of this will make sense to anyone because I am so friggin’ tired that I’m having trouble formuating sentenses.
Anyway, I did talk to the doctor yesterday (or her nurse at least) and was told that the amitriptyline couldn’t be causing the racing heart and horribly high blood pressure (once it was 153/89).
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Tags: PBeM, dysfunctional drama, wellness, South Beach Diet
