Where we live
This is pretty cool - an anniversary video featuring stop motion using book covers.
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
Via Nathan Bransford.
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December 27, 2008
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Advice from a GM
(From Darths & Droids)
Roleplaying games are, in some sense, all about getting to make decisions in the game world that you never get to make in real life. Decisions that are really important. Decisions that can change the course of history.The Playing Characters are the people driving the story. What they decide to do really matters to the people around them.
As a Game Master, it's good if you can really underline this point at some stage during an adventure. Make them acutely aware of the import of what they are about to decide. Make it painfully clear that the lives of thousands, or millions, or even billions of people will be affected by this decision. And make it a really tough one. Back the characters into a corner against their morals (alignment is a handy tool here). Throw them on to the horns of a dilemma.
Put them between a rock and a hard place.
Scylla and Charybdis.
Make them sweat.
Make their own safety hang in the balance as well.
And then give them a time limit.
Yes, this is directed people participating in RPGs, but it makes sense for writing as well. Conflict drives the story and makes it interesting. Course, somehow you have to come up with the conflict, which can be rather difficult...
Thanks to Ash for pointing out Darths & Droids to me.
Love Came Down at Christmas, Jars of Clay
Fathom, Cherie Priest
December 24, 2008
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Because I'm lame and busy and have no time to make a spiffy graphic. This has always been one of my favorite Christmas commercials. Merry merry Christmas to all of you and have a very happy holiday season.
December 8, 2008
Not Quite 12 Days
I've heard this on the radio recently, and it's a lot of fun. I've just started listening to Christmas music willingly (though I can't find one cd, and it's driving me batty), so even though it's not quite 12 days till Christmas, I thought I'd give you a gift...
December 3, 2008
Prop 8 - The Musical
See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die
With Neil Patrick Harris, Allison Janney, that chick from SNL, and Jack Black as Jesus.
