Addictive Personality Strikes Again

There would have been something decent on here, but I got sidetracked because I'm discovering the awesomeness that is The Legend of Korra. *watches with great intensity*

What?

I wanted to see if I could do something amazingly interesting for once. Maybe I succeeded, but we'll never know.

¿Por qué no los dos?

I think I decided what I'm going to do with that project idea of mine. I'm going to see if I can DM it as a tabletop campaign (or at worst, be a player while I feed the plot to whoever I get to DM)... and then write the stories of the adventures that are had.

Or better yet: write out separate stories set in a different timeframe than the campaign goes.

Something tells me that I'm going to regret this decision in the future...

While this seems like a novel idea, something tells me it's going to be just as complicated as it is "simple."

Goodbye, Number Four

It's rare for me to make an entry that involves politics. Seriously, take a look at the "Politics" tag - as of April 4, 2013, there are only three entries marked with the aforementioned label, including this one.

Part of it is due to personal ignorance because of my personal view on politicians (where I believe 93+% of them are self-serving idiots sharing loyalties to those willing to financially back them as opposed to the people), while most of it is due to the fact that speaking politics on a personal blog and then posting a link to it on Facebook would only start a flame war that doesn't need to be held.

Nevertheless, whenever I get myself involved, it's because I heard of something so putrid and corrupt that my brain demands me to say my piece about it. Publicly. But what has gotten me repulsed at the government, you ask? Let's find out.

At Least He's Honest

I feel like typing things. However, I don't feel like typing things today.

Distracted By the Typing

Once again I found myself caught up in planning out this wonderful little world of fiction I've created. As such, it's left me little time to work on anything substantial here, so we'll see what tomorrow has in store. FOr now, I'm going to go back and keep at it with this whole fiction-mapping I'm doing. Once the backstory's established, we can see what happens if I write out the story... or if I have friends play through the world.

Fooled on April

I find it utterly fascinating how I tricked myself into thinking I'd post something today. How utterly mistaken I was. I pulled an April Fool's joke on myself and I didn't even notice? Clever, Josh. Quite clever, indeed.

Ah, well. Maybe I'll be able to post something tomorrow in lieu of this. For now, though, I'm just going to go ahead and keep reading these guide books. *keeps reading profusely*

Fusion Potential

An interesting idea came up yesterday while I was discussing this project idea with my friends: the combat and class system of tabletop RPGs. I've played my fair share of systems, and each one has its own advantages and disadvantages. What weapons can be used, what skills and feats can be used at what levels, and so on and so forth. Choosing one system over the others brings up a problem: some feats and weapons can't be used with other systems, and that might detract from the realism of the campaign.

But what would happen if I were to combine them...? *flurries through all the pages he's read so far*

All of the Reading

Still looking through all the rulebooks here. There's a lot to wrap my head around, and it's making me both excited and nervous. *keeps reading*

Not-So-Light Reading

I recently got my hands on some rulebooks for a few tabletop role-playing games. After spending about two hours prying through all the pages and looking up various rulesets and what not, I realized that deciding to make this "new world of Terani" project into some kind of d20 campaign would be... quite challenging.

And yet I still find myself drawn to the task.

All the things I've been looking up have made themselves look quite appealing should I decide to run some kind of tabletop campaign. Whether it's the medieval-esque nature of classic Dungeons & Dragons or the street-savvy technology present in the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game, each book I've taken the time to look at has shown potential in my eventual selection of a campaign ruleset.

What I'm aiming for is some kind of (semi-)modern setting. I'm envisioning Terani with a technology level that's relatively close to our level (give or take several decades). Despite this, magic would sound quite interesting. Imagine it... a world with both guns and arcane magic. Trippy, isn't it? There's already a few rulesets that attempt to fuse this desire into reality (Urban Arcana looks very interesting right now...), but I've only begun to scratch at the surface. As I keep reading over all of these rules, I keep getting more and more ideas. Gods know that I can use them all in some way to affect this potential campaign (if I indeed make this world an RPG campaign).

There are other books I need to look over, and now I think I'll take the time to go through them. As I keep going, I'll keep jotting notes down and figuring out things here and there.