Category: Roleplaying

OgreCave.com:
Diana Jones Nominees Announced: Jordan Weisman, Monte Cook, Neverwinter Nights, Nobilis, Nyambe, The Riddle of Steel and Unknown Armies, Second Edition.

Israel is currently in Mannheim working on a avant-garde theater project called ME DEA EX_, which mixes VR with the actual performance. The concept is Neora‘s (obviously), and Nimrod Kerrett (twice as many r’s and t’s than his brother…) is also involved. Looks nice (but clearly VR is still an immature technology). Israel is speculating about the possible roleplaying applications.

I just experienced a run of the play, with K. giving the avatar audience guidance. I think the confusion of the VR experience was more interesting than the play’s content. The computer-generated chorus’ singing was haunting (best performance?) but monotonous.

Oddly, my girlfriend interviewed Heiner Muller (who’se work – Landscape with Argonauts, Medea Texts – seems to be what this production/festival is referencing), the year before he died.

Deep thoughts on the Matrix by John Tynes and friends and by Ran Arad. Very cool.

Ran also wrote this funny FAQ.

Oh, and yesterday, he killed my character. I think it’s the first time a character of mine died, outside of perhaps a con game or the old D&D days (not that much happened back then – I mostly DMed). Purely my fault, really, for doing something suicidal, and I spent too much time post-morteming it, but I think my conclusion is that I commited character suicide by attacking the game system.

Thanks to a post by Toastboy (who I found handing around James’ place), I finally discovered that Matthew Rossi has moved his weblog to a new nice, easy to remember new domain name, which explains why the RSS feed I was subscribing to has been dead for weeks.

Also, I notice I’m on Rossi’s blogroll. Cool.

What David Petite linked to was Rossi’s cthulhuoid-supers-space campaign setting, Ad Astra Per Mens Aspera. I should rummage through it for stuff to loot, I think.