Couple things first. We have a show recorded. Hopefully, if Shaun’s a good boy and gets his math homework done tonight, he can maybe get it edited tomorrow. We recorded it about a month ago now, so some of the info in our news section is a little outdated. Such as the song fight. I lost, but I did finish on the first page. Cool.

Also, I had promised audio of us world burning. I have it, although it cut out after two hours. It’s enough to get the idea out of, so when I get a chance to relax maybe I’ll try my hand at editing.

Mother Fucking News Time Bitches
A lot of people already know, but I figured I’d reiterate for anyone who A. Doesn’t know us personally and flesh-like (Lol…fleshlike) and B. Doesn’t follow my FANTASTIC twitter account, twitter.com/govneh.

Here’s what’s up:
A couple of months ago, a client walked up to me and said “Want a job?”. I laughed, haha, good joke. Okay, so I’d only had like 4 hours of sleep and couldn’t hear thanks to The Reverend Horton Heat rocking my sweet ass the night before.

So he persisted, even offering to fire someone for me. Finally, it occurred to me that he might be serious. So I asked “Are you serious?”. Good job, Kristin.

Long to short, I took the job. Shaun and I are looking for a house to rent in Sacramento currently, and have already packed our entire book collection (it took 4 boxes, and I’m still finding stragglers). I’ll be working in Woodland and Shaun will be going to school in Sac and running my company.

What this means for the show? Meh, who knows. We do have every intention of continuing it, hopefully more so then we’ve been doing lately. We are talking about either moving to a once-monthly show, or skyping Randy in from Chico. We’re not dying, just probably taking a break until we’re settled. Hopefully Shaun will get that episode out to tide you over until we can figure things out again.

Cool thing, though, is that we’ll be closer to Sean Nittner of Narrative Control and our mutual friend Mike Parker (Good Omens Episode), as well as all the Bay Area gamers we know. Unfortunately, we’ll probably have to switch our current BW game to once a month, but will probably play BE in Sac.

Also, we’ll have a house. Sweet.

Just wanted to drop a line and let people know what’s up. We’re not gone, we’re just a little delayed.

Boosh.

I’m about to start running a campaign for five first-time roleplayers based on Shadowrun but using the WoD rules and tone. So like I said, it’s perfect. You’ve got to keep it up, if only for my benefit. And any of your insight into what I’m planning to do would be much appreciated.

So let’s see… I’ve always loved the Shadowrun setting for its politics and corporations and Libertarian Dystopia, “careful what you wish for, Ayn Rand” kind of setting. Corrupt power structure and disenfranchised lower classes and vindicated indigenous peoples speak very deeply to my post-Marxist, anti-jingoistic heart. But while I think the game designers did a great job of incorporating fantasy elements into the setting, dragons and trolls just really aren’t my thing. I love D&D, but I like to “keep it real” when it comes to more modern gaming and real-world settings.

WoD obviously fills that niche well. I run a lot of modern and historical WoD games using only mortal characters and NPCs. In the game I’m planning, in fact, there is absolutely nothing super-natural existent in the world.

So I was wondering what cool uses you’ve put the WoD rules to in your past games, and how do you intend to use them in the future? This can go on to cover other rules systems, obviously.

As for myself, I’ve run a religion-heavy horror story set in 1930′s Louisiana in the rural Parish of Bayougoula centered around a letter one of the PCs received from a fellow priest who claimed to have encountered the Devil himself on the side of a winding country road. A similarly religion-heavy chronicle in modern-day war-torn Iraq in which we actually had a Muslim friend play an Iraqi captive whom the other PCs (American Soldiers) had to take into custody and extract from Fallujah at the height of the fighting there. And a ghost story set in France just after the First World War involving an American MIA haunted by the spirits of his fallen unit whom he’d abandoned in his cowardice.

Does anyone else play these sorts of settings? Anyone have any good ideas for an interesting time and place that I might use in my next game? I’m leaning toward BBC journalists who crash a helicopter in Rwanda or Darfur and have to deal with child soldiers and that sort of thing as they attempt to get home.

Anyway, thanks for reading so much. Just hoping to get the ball rolling on discussions here in the forum. And Kristen and Shaun, keep up the great podcast.

So Shaun and I make plans to record every single weekend, just so you know. Unfortunately, I’ve been spending so much time away from him doing homework and at group meetings that during the recording time, we just curl up and watch movies. Like Deadwood (Cocksucker). I can’t help it, I need to not think sometimes.

So as much as this sounds like a list of excuses, that’s not my intention. I intend this more as a plea. I think we have the best listeners, as even though we record so little, they still pick us up. So please, a one week extension of your patience, if for no other reason than to make my life easier. On Wednesday, I will present a 20 minutes presentation on a business that I’ve spent all semester, every week since PAX basically, developing. On the same day, I will turn in a thirty to eighty page business plan on the same business, professionally bound and completely free of errors (three is allowable. No more. In eighty pages.). Then, One tiny insignificant Human Resource paper, and I’m done. Then, we record. Because after all this, Final can kiss my ass. I’ll be mentally finished.

So bear with me. Until Wednesday or Thursday. That’s all. Then we record. If not, then you may leave.

First, I’ve updated the website software to Drupal 5.2. The old system had some security issues. If anyone notices any bugs or strange errors, please email me at thismoderndeath@gmail.com

Also, I’ve added a quote feature to the comments and the forum. The correct usage of the feature is as follows:

[quote="OriginalPoster"]Quoted Text[/quote]


It should produce something that looks like this…

[quote="OriginalPoster"]Quoted Text[/quote]

Test it out, and let me know if you have any problems

The way to buy the game (for a whopping $5) is to email John and say exactly this: “Sean Nittner bought Wilderness of Mirrors and is now running it at conventions bringing you hordes of fame and glory. You should certainly repay the favor. By the way, can I buy a copy of this Game?”

Say exactly that and he should send you back an email asking you to send him $5 over paypal. He’ll then email you a copy of the game, probably with a note that the message will self destruct in 5 seconds.

His email is: john@wicked-dead.com

By the way… I am so happy that I didn’t have to create a new account to use your forums. Shaun and Kristen get a gold star!