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Making a Good Bad Guy

Making a Good Bad Guy

Take your average hero.  I don’t care if it’s Neo or Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter or Batman.  Now set him down in a peaceful, quiet town and watch what happens. What happens? Neo continues to work at his day job, while doing small-time hacking on the side. Luke works on the farm and on weekends [...]

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Shepherd’s Pie: Fourth Helping

Everybody knows what a link dump is.  Well, almost everybody.  I assure you it’s not a bunch of turds all hooked together and floating in the porcelain pond.  Though I did have Turd Pudding a few weeks ago.  One blog I read calls its weekly link dump post “Applesauce.”  Chuck Wendig’s “Painting With Shotguns” paints [...]

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The Tearing of the Veil: Another Option for Gamemasters

About two weeks ago, I wrote a post outlining one possible explanation for the bizarre conditions that exist in the world of the game I am writing.  I am still working on the game, poring through mechanics and solidifying the pre-game story of the world.  I am also still working on a title and am [...]

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The Hollow Kingdom: Camelot

I’ve been thinking for several weeks about writing a post on Camelot as the perfect fantasy setting.  A few days ago, I got the prod that I needed to make this post a reality.  Thanks to Justin Achilli for kicking me into action. “Ask ev’ry person if he’s heard the story; And tell it strong [...]

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Alan Wake: A Geekcentric Review

Yesterday afternoon I finished Alan Wake.  As most of my regular readers know, I am a horror junkie.  I love all things horror (okay, so all quality things), be it novels, short stories, video games or movies (though I’m not too keen on random and gratuitous splatters of gore).  I know this game fits more [...]

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My Gaming Evolution

My Gaming Evolution

Since I started using Twitter again, it’s been a rare day that I don’t come across a link or three that lead to interesting reading.  Like most people, I retweet the ones that I like.  I usually use TweetDeck or (more recently) HootSuite to send them to both Facebook and Twitter, since I have almost [...]

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Shepherd’s Pie – Melange a Trois

I know.  I know.  It’s been a few days since I’ve delivered any new content here.  Shit happens.  Life happens.  Finishing Alan Wake happened (stay tuned for my review).  I’m here, and you are too.  I’m glad you came back to see what I have to say.  And yes.  I know that my title means [...]

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Behind the Shift

This morning I was having some internal debate with myself about mechanics vs. setting in THE GAME.  Thankfully, it didn’t come to blows.  It remained a civilized discussion.  The internal discussion revolved around which sections I am working on writing and in which order (setting my writing plan).  At the core of it is one [...]

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Game Hacking in the Cold War Era

If you read my first post on Geekcentricity, you know the bare bones on how I was first introduced to role-playing games.  That was almost 30 years ago.  I know, I’m ancient.  I’m that old guy saying, “back in my day, we walked ten miles to school in four feet of snow.”  But there were [...]

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Turd Pudding

In the proud tradition of “Shepherd’s Pie” (or Sheppard’s Pie, as the case may be)… I bring you “Turd Pudding”… As promised, I have a quick teaser with some information on the game I’ve been working on, which I’m giving a new working title (since it’s what I’ve been calling it anyway lately and since [...]

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