Local weather is trying to be obliging. “You don’t have a light jacket right now? Okay, we’ll just drop the morning temp to 45 degrees so you can wear your winter coat, does that help?”<\/p>\n
Had a very weird dream the other night where I climbed down a narrow drainage pipe to find myself in a secret underground studio where they were filming the return of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” to the cable channels. I was privileged to sit in on one of the sessions where they watch the movie and write the jokes; I started ad-libbing along, and they hired me on the spot, causing me to draw the wrath of one of the other writers for some reason. Any dream interpreters wanna take a shot at that one?<\/p>\n
In the ongoing Stuff Reduction Plan, I did some heavy game materials archaeology yesterday. I found my copy of Amber Diceless<\/i>, a fascinating take on RPG mechanics that uses no random chance at all; Star Warriors<\/i>, a fast-paced, careening tactical game of Star Wars fightercraft; and Ogre<\/i>, light infantry and vehicles against a robot tank the size of a small city block. I’m keeping those. (Actually, I fear the Ogre<\/i> set may belong to rattrap<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Going away is the stack of official Star Trek fan magazines, which will be probably be trashed; and raininva<\/a> has dibs on the bigger stack of West End Star Wars RPG<\/i> and Indiana Jones RPG<\/i> books. Battletech<\/i> 3025 scenario and source- books are going; Battletech<\/i> ‘Mech listing books are staying. I’m not sure whether I’m keeping Castle Falkenstein<\/i>, or the hardcover first-edition copy of White Wolf Mage<\/i>. (Starr, a onetime Vampire LARPer, may give me permission to keep that.) However, I will divest myself of the two Last Unicorn Star Trek RPG<\/i> hardcovers, and the Traveller: A New Era<\/i> core book. I have a lot of gaming stuff.<\/p>\n Last treasure unearthed: my Wireframe Babylon Project<\/i> books and GM screen. The savvy fan will find the names of jsciv<\/a>, yubbie<\/a>, and impink<\/a> within; and down in the playtesting credits, a listing for some doof that goes by mikailborg<\/a> online. Yeah, I’m keeping that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Local weather is trying to be obliging. “You don’t have a light jacket right now? Okay, we’ll just drop the morning temp to 45 degrees so you can wear your winter coat, does that help?” Had a very weird dream the other night where I climbed down a narrow drainage pipe to find myself in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,28,60,8,49,6,16,9,91,51],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-babylon-5","tag-books","tag-dreams","tag-friends","tag-gaming","tag-rain","tag-star-trek","tag-star-wars","tag-starr","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-f1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}