C.J. Moseley's Blog, page 159
May 9, 2014
T13 updates…
In preparation for tonight's game session, and based on some in play raised issues I have made some modifications to some of the T13 rules pages. Mostly they are just clarifications and minor changes to some wording, so won't make too much difference.
Tonight the players are going to be setting up the Free Neptunian Colonies with their private fleet of Trod Drive ships... (Pretty much the only thing that came out of the last session beyond some secret stuff for the novel).
Of course, there are 14 moons and a gas giant to actually explore, not that the British have the best history with encountering natives...
That reminds me, must finishing statting the Bad Guys for that tonight...
Tonight the players are going to be setting up the Free Neptunian Colonies with their private fleet of Trod Drive ships... (Pretty much the only thing that came out of the last session beyond some secret stuff for the novel).
Of course, there are 14 moons and a gas giant to actually explore, not that the British have the best history with encountering natives...
That reminds me, must finishing statting the Bad Guys for that tonight...
May 8, 2014
fangirl-with-a-camera:
books
Well books ARE brill
fangirl-with-a-camera:
books
Well books ARE brill
books
Well books ARE brill
May 7, 2014
May 6, 2014
Terror in Two Sentences (micro fiction)
Originally posted on Sweat, Tears and Digital Ink:
Richard Wiseman blogs and writes mostly about scepticism – I reviewed his book Paramormality early last year. Today’s…
Richard Wiseman blogs and writes mostly about scepticism – I reviewed his book Paramormality early last year. Today’s…
Could be the greatest movie ever…
Could be the greatest movie ever…
May 5, 2014
General Update…
Since getting back from Holiday I've had some confused luck that has hampered my wiring a little. I'm meant to be hard at work finishing the 1st draft of 'Ironmaster', but yet again I have been brought low by a new cold-like plague, engineered in the governmental bio-weapon facility known as a primary school.
But that's the bad luck, on a brighter note I have finally been able to afford a new phone. Replacing my decrepit iPhone 3GS with a shiny Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (3GS-> SEND you see how that works), and have picked up a few other little toys that should help me generate content.
But this has meant learning the new phone, to say nothing of the setting up of at least seven e-mail addresses, and innumerable website passwords and logins that had to be transferred or updated.
Which has got in the way of writing, more than a little. Which brings me to the worst thing that has been stealing, not just my own time, but that of every member of the household: Minecraft.
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My boys became obsessed with Minecraft, the bio-weapon plant mentioned before began rewarding good behaviour in school with time playing the pocket edition.
Soon me and the Mrs began to hear strange things being said by the two smaller Moseleys, words like "Creeper", "Redstone", "Endermen" and "Netherwrack".
Good behaviour at home meant that we thought nothing of letting them download the game for the PS3... It meant that we could watch and get a handle on the game. Hindsight suggests this may have been a mistake...
Minecraft had been described as a fun little building game, you mine some stuff and then build some stuff, don't be drawn in, it is like the Crack cocaine version of the Sim games.
We have lost entire evenings to building houses, dungeons, themeparks, in creative mode, and who knows how many hours of daylight we have all spent digging, fishing, hunting and constructing in Survival mode.
In short, it is an amazingly deep and fun game. Which I hesitate to recommend for much the same reason as, having broken my elbow, I was given vast doses of Diamorphine, but would not recommend anyone take it, despite how lovely it felt, because it is more commonly known as Heroin.
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Hopefully we'll all be able to get the Minecraft addictions under control and I'll soon get back into the swing of writing again. Although, I'm still unhappy with my planned ending of the book and am hoping the world building sessions may provide a solution, in the form of a dramatic twist that won't require I rewrite everything that I've written so far, to include hints toward the ending that is coming. Hmm... Maybe I'll just investigate what I can do with sticky pistons and powered rails, for a bit...
Posted from my Phone so...
But that's the bad luck, on a brighter note I have finally been able to afford a new phone. Replacing my decrepit iPhone 3GS with a shiny Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (3GS-> SEND you see how that works), and have picked up a few other little toys that should help me generate content.
But this has meant learning the new phone, to say nothing of the setting up of at least seven e-mail addresses, and innumerable website passwords and logins that had to be transferred or updated.
Which has got in the way of writing, more than a little. Which brings me to the worst thing that has been stealing, not just my own time, but that of every member of the household: Minecraft.
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="520" caption="There was a time when I couldn't have named every block in this screen shot"]
[/caption]My boys became obsessed with Minecraft, the bio-weapon plant mentioned before began rewarding good behaviour in school with time playing the pocket edition.
Soon me and the Mrs began to hear strange things being said by the two smaller Moseleys, words like "Creeper", "Redstone", "Endermen" and "Netherwrack".
Good behaviour at home meant that we thought nothing of letting them download the game for the PS3... It meant that we could watch and get a handle on the game. Hindsight suggests this may have been a mistake...
Minecraft had been described as a fun little building game, you mine some stuff and then build some stuff, don't be drawn in, it is like the Crack cocaine version of the Sim games.
We have lost entire evenings to building houses, dungeons, themeparks, in creative mode, and who knows how many hours of daylight we have all spent digging, fishing, hunting and constructing in Survival mode.
In short, it is an amazingly deep and fun game. Which I hesitate to recommend for much the same reason as, having broken my elbow, I was given vast doses of Diamorphine, but would not recommend anyone take it, despite how lovely it felt, because it is more commonly known as Heroin.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="397" caption="We downloaded our demise, but it comes on disc too! "]
[/caption]Hopefully we'll all be able to get the Minecraft addictions under control and I'll soon get back into the swing of writing again. Although, I'm still unhappy with my planned ending of the book and am hoping the world building sessions may provide a solution, in the form of a dramatic twist that won't require I rewrite everything that I've written so far, to include hints toward the ending that is coming. Hmm... Maybe I'll just investigate what I can do with sticky pistons and powered rails, for a bit...
Posted from my Phone so...
rhubarbes:
In dry dock by Dasnewten.
(par dasnewten)
Must get…
May 4, 2014
May 3, 2014
scificity:
Need a new wallpaper, why not zoidburg…
scificity:
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Why not zoidberg?
Need a new wallpaper, why not zoidburg 1920x1080http://scificity.tumblr.com
Why not zoidberg?
May 2, 2014
m3rmaid-d0ll:
lookoutofyourwindow:
battlecryy:
vultureswaiting…
Breaking news from the UK
You have no idea how much this upset me and changed my life
HOW COULD WE HAVE BEEN SO BLIND
I’ve always eaten it chocolate down…
I’ve always done it like this?
Erm… What? Of course the chocolate goes on the bottom, how else do you taste it?
