Jordan’s Mindless Ramblings

An elderly man walks down the street when he notices a penny lying on the sidewalk.  He stoops over slowly, feeling pain in his back as he picks it up.  Smiling proudly as his prize, he proclaims “Today my luck has changed, for soon I will be a rich man.” as he places the penny in his pocket.  As he takes a step, a penny rolls down the inside of his pant-leg, over his shoe and comes to rest on the sidewalk, where the old man notices it and stoops over slowly to pick it up.

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the term “cinematic games” lately, mainly because it’s a phrase we’ve been hearing more and more often nowadays.  It’s become a marketing tool really.  The quotes on the back of the box proclaim a game to be cinematic like it’s some kind of gift from the heavens, bestowed upon us poor wretched mortals.

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Ok, if you read the regular site, you may notice that about once a month, a little article called World Craft comes out.  There’s been about 8 installments so far.

The concept is simple: I show you how to create a campaign setting (the specifics are for D&D 3.5 ed, but the overall theory can be applied to pretty much any roleplaying game or even to anything else really), and give examples of each step.

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As far as I’m concerned, the best time to do any shopping you have to do is between the hours of 12 and 6 in the morning.  That’s any time between midnight and when the sane people begin to wake up and start their days.  It’s just one of those fantastic, yet absolutely bizarre experiences that everybody should try at least once.

The only problem is that your options are usually limited during the twilight hours.  Sure, there’s always convenience stores, but those don’t really count.  Grocery stores, even department stores are the best places to visit on your pre-dawn excursions.

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I’ve felt a little more detached from the world at large lately, and things that happen around me don’t seem to make much sense to me, although everyone else seems to go along with it just fine.

I was in the Canadian Tire last night along with Chippy Sunshine, on the quest for duplicate keys.  When we got there, we were greeted with the most unholy sight one could expect to find in a hardware store: a grocery store.

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Well, things at Useless Babble HQ have been going well, and by that, I mean that it’s really fucking cold.  The Halycon days of one of the coldest and wettest summers I can remember are gone and replaced with the cold and wet of early December.  It’s enough to make a man want to start a fire in the middle of his living room floor, if just to get warm for a little while.

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Today was the series finale of Jon & Kate Plus Eight.  Although I’ve never really been a fan of the show, I do find the kids to be utterly adorable, and I can’t help but chuckle at their wide-eyed enthusiasm to the world at large.

Since I’ve written about the kids previously in my blog post Jon & Kate Plus an Extended Custody Battle, I felt almost obligated to see the show out.  As I mentioned earlier, I’m not really a fan.  This was something that Chippy Sunshine got me into, but still…there are some things that need mentioning.

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This morning, a dusting of snow hit my hometown, heralding the coming of winter.

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Hello everybody and happy Halloween!

There’s about 1 hour to go before the ELan Games Halloween All-Nighter gets underway, and I’ll be joining them there all night, along with a lot of the goodies from Cooking with Count Chocula.  If you’re reading this, I’m going to be updating this post all night long, hopefully about once an hour.

So, click the ‘Read More’ link and see the updates as they happen!

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Today is October 26th, and the day that thought would never come.

Today’s the day that Geocities died.

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