Lacking Natural Simplicity

Random musings on books, code, and tabletop games.

Recent Reading

T. Kurt Bond

Comments

  • A Face Turned Backward, by Lauren Haney; copyright 1999 Betty J. Winkelman; Avon Books, January 1999.

  • Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris; Ace Books/The Berkley Publishing Group/Penguin Putnam Inc., May 2001.

  • Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris; Ace Books/The Berkley Publishing Group/Penguin Putnam Inc., April 2002.

  • Nightseer, by Laurell K. Hamilton; Roc/New American Library/Penguin Books USA Inc, March 1992. This book seems like a slice out of a much larger saga. Not extruded fantasy product.

  • Black Sun Rising, by C.S. Friedman; DAW, September 1992; DAW Book Collectors Number 864.

Trollstone Caverns

T. Kurt Bond

Comments

Attending

  • T.K.B — GM

  • D.B. — playing two characters

  • T.A. — playing two characters

Actual Play

Two of the kids, T.A. and D.B., wanted to play an RPG, so I pulled out Tunnels & Trolls (5th edition). They picked from the pre-generated characters in the T&T box (I had photocopied them some time before), choosing a Dwarf Warrior named Bjorn, two Human Warriors named Hrolf (renamed Ralph) and Ragnar, and a Dwarf Rogue named Sturri. They ventured into “Trollstone Caverns”, the example dungeon from the T&T rulebook, traveling through areas 1, 2, 12, and 11, then back out the same way, as they had ended up pretty wounded.

Recent Viewing and Reading

T. Kurt Bond

Comments

Saturday, 30 July 2005

Recent Viewing

  • Porco Russo Lily said:

    I didn't like this one as much, because it didn't have any scary parts; I like the scary parts.

Recent Reading

  • A Storm of Wings, by M. John Harrison, copyright 1980; Timescape/Pocket Books/Simon & Schulster/Gulf & Western Corporation; January 1982. Good, but rather depressing.

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