The majority of the links I post get four or five stars. The reason for this is that I usually only post stuff that I like. This one may get a little rambling as I try to describe why I don't like it. If nothing else, the quote will be worth a peak if only to shake your head at it.

Way back when, there was a webcomic called Queen of Wands. The titular character was a girl named Kestrel who lived in Denver and tried to figure out who she was. One of the people she met was a girl named Angela who looked like she was 12 and worked with Kestrel in the toystore. Angela fell in love with Kestrel but the sentiment wasn't returned. The comic ended when the Queen of Wands moved on with her life (and got hit by a car in a completely different comic).

The Token Female Gamer is a friend of mine from back in college. I met her through my wife as they were both in the same Computer Science program. She was one of the vampire gamers at UMass with me and after college she moved to California to work for the Blizzard North team. So yeah, she has a little gamer cred under her belt.

In taking a look at converting Aberrant to the 'Storytelling' rules, the first thing I wanted to do is to do is make a listing of the 'core' parts of of the nWoD system and write out some notes as to where the Aberrant bits would fit in there. Not sure I'll ever run this game, but White Wolf has one of the easier character creation systems so a 'write up yourself as a character/here lets add some powers' might make for a fun time at a Con game. (Down side: 15d10 per player)

In the late 90s I was a big fan of the games put out by White Wolf Publishing. My game of choice was the Mind's Eye Theatre. At the time I had a main game that I played (Vampire) in and a couple of games that I would make the occasional appearance at (Changeling, Hunter, and Cyberpunk). Despite my current obsession with Superheroes, the last time I had any experience was nearly a decade earlier in a Marvel Superheroes one-shot game.

It was then that White Wolf released a game called Aberrant.

One thing I've heard about raising children is that you need to provide them with structure in their lives. It keep them grounded and helps them to feel safe. It hasn't been until recently that it has been something that I needed to worry about. Here's the story of our child-care woes.

In which our author (that's me) talks about Mother's day, Multiple trips to Massachusettes, Daycare, and other children's stuff..

I am going to be running a story arc in our Mutants and Mastermind's game. Because everyone is really busy but I need new PCs for this particular arc, I've adapted the M&M Lite rules from the Mutants and Masterminds Annual #2 to serve this purpose. The actual changes I've made from the rules are pretty minimal but they offer a few stronger guidelines and some setting information.

I had originally intended to get this out back in late March. In addition to the normal life getting in the way, I really sabotaged myself by allowing all of the 'shiny house rules' distract me. When I finally sat down and forced myself to be straight forward about what I wanted, it came out reasonably well.

Of course now I have to start work on NPCs.

I read comic books for superhero stories. I read web comics for Modern Fantasy. There are exceptions to both rules but Swiftriver Comics falls squarely in the latter category. It follows the story of Bowie Swiftriver (gotta love the hippie name) who as of the beginning of the comic is an about-to-retire thief. For whatever reason Bowie has started seeing 'beneath the surface' of the world to the fantasy beneath.

It isn't a new idea but it isn't one that sees a whole lot of use these days either. The thought that the consumption of some special food can grant power to those who consume it goes back at least as far as greek mythology. The origins of the word 'ambrosia' may go back further and have links to mead and/or other honey bee related products.