sunday

[dr4b]

ugh, I really should learn to be more productive with my time.
Since sunday dinner got cancelled, all I did tonight was play a lot of SimCity, and I just worked on putting photos into albums (going back to like October, heh). I'm out of photo pages again. Either I need to take less pictures or put less of them in albums, or something.

We started our new Ragnarok campaign today. Nasri and Isaac have everything worked out. They're playing twin brothers who are part of a ninja clan, and who are trained as monks to go kick ass and take names. Their characters are 19 years old. I said "sure, I'll join your ninja clan," and so I'm their 16-year-old little sister. (This gave me plenty of ideas for background and why my character is the way she is... oh, incase I didn't mention it here, I reworked her and now she's got 3 rogue levels and one ranger level, and rights primarily with short swords instead of unarmed. Going to be a ninja spy in 3-4 levels or so...) anyway, Dan and Kyle's characters are both cousins of Nasri and Isaac and me, and also in the clan, and Carl's character is a miko who works at the shrine near the clan or something, and Konstantin... well... Kon is playing a catgirl. No joke. A very very broken D&D shapeshifter catgirl who happens to be really strong and kinda ugly (low charisma at least)... not exactly what I would have expected, but whatever. Somehow his character is involved with our plans, but I have forgotten how.

Anyway, except for there being 7 people in our party, it's going well. Whee.

Blargh. I wish I didn't like wasting time at SimCity quite so much.

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[madbard.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time since I played actual official D&D. I was involved in the aforementioned Will Timmins' various campaigns at CMU. He would invent elaborate worlds, each of which could be a gaming system unto itself. Though tragically unorganized, he was a genius storyteller and had this jaw-dropping skill at inventing compelling scenarios.

Your suggestion sounds like a good one, except that it involves walking into an RPG shop and talking to the denizens. My olfactory sense is still reeling from 10-year-old memories of the Wean cluster.

[dr4b]

You are *so* 1990. :) Oddly enough if you walked into the Wean clusters these days, sure, certain ones would still be filled with odd-smelling people (usually the linux cluster), but often it's also filled with cute little freshman CS chicks wearing makeup and bouncing up and down at the joy of seeing their 211 homework compile. (Ok, that was a mean thing to say. But seriously, the mix of people in the clusters these days, at least at prime time, look to be just as much a mix of kids you might see on MTV's Spring Break as kids you'd have seen at CMU ten years ago. Or maybe it just surprises me to see people in the cluster wearing makeup, and they are just as geeky as the rest of us under it.)

D&D, too, seems to have gone from being a hobby where just the antisocial geeks play to where just about anyone plays... when they started the club at CMU last year I was so surprised that our group consisted of anyone from your traditional slightly weird geeks to a drama major with spiked bleached hair and piercings, a hippie raver who was missing sessions to go to concerts, a drummer of a local indie-rock band (and a singer in another), and one of the groups was being DMed by a guy in Sigma Tau Gamma, and so on... (and some of the other Ragnarok ex-regulars reading this can probably think of even more people I've forgotten who totally didn't fit into the "D&D stereotype") I get increasingly freaked out lately how, say, Carl and I can discuss D&D somewhere completely random and someone in the room who totally doesn't seem nerdy enough to play D&D will start chiming in with "...but then at 10th level you get _____ and then you totally will kick butt" or something.

(...and don't even get me started on anime...)

I don't think I ever heard of Will Timmins, anyway - I got to CMU a full year after you left, and most of my RPGing at CMU was primarily with freshmen and sophomores that year, before I fell out of RPGing for a few years.