Apparently, probiotic bacteria are no longer the cutting edge in re-introducting wildlife into the human digestive tract. a painfully (but inevitably) titled article claims that a diet of worms protects against bowel cancer.
[ New Scientist, via decafbad. ]
Last night (in the first hour of April the 15th, 2004), my campaign (Secret Origins) ended. It was a bit unexpected for me and for the players too, I think. However, I had put the loaded gun on the table, so to speak, when the PCs first learned that one of them (together with an NPC), could end the world. And I had signaled we were entering the last stretch a session or two ago, and last session chaos broke out and NPCs started dying (or making threatening comebacks).
But, you know, I guess I didn’t expect them to hit the "abort universe" (or "restart", whatever) button, at least not for a couple of sessions. Maybe I’m forgetting how my players are…
Ironically, earlier yesterday I had read Anders Sandberg’s campaign notes where he talks about the GM being willing to destroy the world. Well, we did it.
The question now is, what next? We started brainstorming our next campaign last night. This is the most exhilarating and most frightening step, I think. What shall we wear, oh what shall we where?
In November, I mentioned Anders’ Sandberg’s campaign for Aberrant,Bulk and Surface, and he commented just you wait until I can reveal what lurks in the GM section
. Well, I checked it now and the GM section is online. Gosh. Hard SF Cosmic Horror, like HP Lovecraft filtered through Gregory Benford. I wish I’d seen this back when I was running Kings of Space…
Uncle Bear’s Genre Fonts: fonts from SF/F Movies and TV, or from RPGs, or just of general use to RPG gamers and SF fans. Including such exotic scripts as Klingon and Hebrew…
Bah. How hard is it to find instructions for downloading drupal from CVS? Harder than I’d think.