Mandatory Microsoft Madness

Most people that know me will tell you I don't have a very high opinion of Microsoft. There are lots of reasons for this, but rather than bore you with a bunch of history, I'll tell you about my recently-purchased XBOX 360 that died last month and the humorous and annoying process of replacing it.

Have You Seen This?

And by this I mean THIS RIGHT HERE.

Monsters on Post-It notes. Good stuff. Really good stuff.

Dungeon Dice?

Over on A Character for Every Game, Dyson Logos has started a new project: DungeonMorph dice.

Clarification from Dyson: The project is actually being run by Joe from Inkwell Ideas. Dyson and some other folk are involved in the geomorph designs.

Shalish - A City of Daruna

Map Key

Red - Military
Green - Residential
Blue - Temples
Yellow - Market / trade
Tan - Warehouse / storage
Purple - Government

Shalish is the largest city of the Shalish Alliance, and is the capital of the province that bears it's name. It is smaller in terms of population than Daruna or Loshma, but significantly larger than any other known city. The city and surrounding lands are ruled by King Lahkim Dashen II. Dashen's nephew, King Anda Kamase rules Goba as a vassal state loyal to Shalish, the result of a successful invasion by Dashen seven years ago.

Eve Online - CSM Voting is Open

Make your voice heard.

For those that don't play Eve, the CSM is the Council of Stellar Management, a player feedback organization set up by CCP to represent the player base to the developers. They've done some good stuff.

I need two of those "I voted" stickers they give out at polling locations here in the US.

Starlight

Blog posts have been taking a back seat to other writing lately, with my time being divided between working on Class Free rules, filling in my Daruna campaign setting, and running a play-by-post sci fi game. I've talked a bit about Class Free and Daruna, but haven't said much about my PbP game, so...

One Page Dungeon Contest

The contest for 2011 has been announced. There's already a great array of prizes being offered.