Catching up

Yeah, okay. i haven't posted anything since November. What can i say? i'm a procrastinator. I promised Spiral i'd post yesterday, and didn't get to it.

So, here's something new.

My crew started playing a d20 Modern game a couple weeks ago. We've been able to get one play session in so far, and it was really positive. I've grown bored with static dungeon crawls and wanted something new, so i put my players to the test by giving them one objective: get the ancient cup from the house. Don't kill the occupant.

Sounds easy, right? But its amazingly complicated. They have to worry about security. they have to worry about security systems. they have to worry about each other and form into a cohesive team, and it has been very rewarding. Three hours of game play, lots of roleplay, no combat. Great.

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Gun Bunny

<- Gun Bunny

heh.. that's just hot.

I've been reading a lot of manga and watching anime and playing BESMd20 lately with my son, Demon. My wife wants to play a gun bunny in our campaign, so here's a pic for her. heh..

Just something about the Japanese i find exotic and beautiful. art, music, culture, all of it.

Demon's character is an American/Japanese (mom was Japanese) 14yo who's father died in Iraq. he's staying with his Japanese uncle in Tokyo and going to high school.

He's very good at the RP for only being 8. He has a great imagination and adds details in conversations with NPCs that I was surprised and pleased he came up with. It's more true RP, instead of just hack & slash, which is what i generally expected out of a 8yo.

True RP is rare and hard to come by. We have fullon conversations with the NPCs, discussing daily plans and such. I thought he'd be bored by RP gaming, but he loves it and keeps asking me when we're going to play again. Heh.. i havent even had time to flesh out the details of the storyline. i was just intending to make his character. *chuckles* he's having fun, tho. so its all good.

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