[  Mood: Happy ]
Me and the designated girlfriend decided to get the hell out of dodge yesterday and went to a near by college town to eat some wacky food and swill beer in hipster bars. In the process of doing this we also hung out and played both Fluxx and Zombie Fluxx. Both of which are tremendously fun. Fluxx is insanely easy to learn and very quick to play. I have to say I like the almost zen koan nature of the core game slightly more then Zombie but both are really fun. I really recommend this game to anyone who wants a card game that is quick, easy and fun to play on the fly.

So I am putting together a one shot Call of Cthulhu game set in the modern era. Instead of doing the Delta Green thing (which I normally would) I decided to go a different direction. I made up The Hartford Society. They are a group of people dedicated to fighting the occult tide of the end times. They have all the tropes: a deceased wealthy benefactor, offices in London and New York, a large library and stuffy, officious officers.

I will have premade characters and will probably run one of the adventures from one of the Chaosium books. I find it ironic that I have 100 pounds of these damn books and hardly, if ever actually run them. I almost always run things of my own design. Go figure.

Here’s why.

There are some stories about horrible German tourists in New York, google’em.

My uncles had a nice tour of Germany back in the 40s…

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Oh, In other news I <3 Ubuntu. They sent me a free install disk and a bunch of stickers FROM EUROPE! The backers of Ubuntu rule, I am setting up a machine on my network yesterday.

Here is my list of most recently purchased games:

Fluxx

Zombie Fluxx

The Awful Green Things From Outer Space

I also got a couple of packs of figures to be used in various games.

Plus a sweet pin for my leather jacket. hail to the King (in Yellow), baby!

Saw IV = meh.

Sheesh, getting modern/figs/counters/etc for current day gaming is a real pain in the behind. I just got a set of Battlefield Evolution US Marines from Noble Knight (who completely rule in every way a good on line biz should). They are wonderful scuplted pre painted figs, if you want some get them now because from what I am hearing Mongoose is going to quit making them. I got some other counters from Fiery Dragon and SJGames.

Still why is it so amazingly hard to find anything for modern era games? It has been a struggle to get stuff for my Dresden Files-esque Cinematic Unisystem game. Friend Craig has a similar struggle finding anything for his Year of the Zombie game. This shouldn’t be this hard.

*sigh*

I’m looking around for a good two person board or card game that I and Beckasaurus (designated girlfriend) can play. I am interested in Mister Jack.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/21763

But I would be open for other suggestions as well. Any idears?

You know it is always the small things that signal the downfall of a society.

Bees vanishing because of collapsing colony disorder

The cost of gas and food

Here’s a sick question for you guys to research. It has been proven on multiple occasions that human beings can approach or hit 1 ton in weight. What if water was involved? The person was allowed to be boyant and chemical balances were observed to ensure no ulceration of skin. How enormous could a human get in those circumstances?

Past that, how much even more so in an environment with no gravity like the ISS?

I’m thinking about something for a game.

I’m thinking about the big issues.

-Can ‘Baby Got Back’ be played non-ironically ever again?

-Is there a way during an abduction to let the aliens know you’d like to pass on the probing?

-Is it even possible to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that a photo or video is authentic anymore?

-I’m actually glad there isn’t a way currently to record and play back my dreams.

-Why aren’t they working on a genemod super-pepper?