10:26 AM
More outdoor fun today, more writing, and then off to the regular Sunday night game (hurray for long-running campaigns!)

Though Liana showed me a copy a few days ago, I finally got to see a copy of Campaign #2 on the stands yesterday. It's always nice to see something I've written hit the stage of public consumption (an article laying out a new prestige class where you can become a cult leader in d20 games, for those who are unaware._ Just knowing that there might be an audience out there is enough to keep plugging away. And though they messed up the formatting of one table and inserted some art of questionable applicability to fill in white space at the end, I'm really happy with the way my article came out--it actually sounds like a prestige class I might want to play someday, and Dave's illustration looks great.

Not much else to say, although I would like to join JP's warband against this idiot. He's very much where I was about two years ago, when I still thought "more story! More story!" But I really feel I've seen the light, so far as games and story go (and I know, Bezzy, I keep promising to write that article; I'll get around to it, I swear): less story, better and more subtly told, allowing the player to play a part in the story, can create a more powerful and unique experience for the player than trying to jam them into the middle of a hamfisted Hollywood ripoff. The designer-told story of GTA3 is weak and full of holes (Where did Donald Love go, for one thing?), so it's the stories I create out of my own experiences that I keep telling--remind me to tell you about when I played a pyromaniac FBI agent who hated mimes for a while the other night.

Okay, a couple links and then I'm off.

I really dig some of the photographs on this site. It's sites like this and the pictures Karla's constantly tossing up in her blog that are convincing me a digital camera is headding toward my Need category (he says, completely unable to afford it, but feeling the itch...)

And: Skulls!