Battles with Integrity

scendan has this to say about the Jedi: Jedi suck.

Which reminded me of David Brin's essay in Salon about Lucas as monarchist-elitist, versus Roddenberry as populist.

If you've not read these pieces, they're both highly recommended.

From the Endgame website, for all of y'all you guys:

Title: July RPGnet Mini Con
Description: RPG.net and EndGame bring you the July 2006 Mini Con.

Saturday July 15, EndGame along with our sponsors, RPG.net present you with a full day of gaming goodness. ( Read more... )

There's still space available for many of the games, so check them out. Come out and play.

I aim to start a short-term (maybe 6-8 sessions) Dogs in the Vineyard game at my house in downtown Oakland on Thursday evenings (700p-1030p). Y'all are invited to play, but I have only four slots total. I have a minimum need of two players to make it a go, and four players (plus the one I have in reserve) is the absolute top end for this particular project.

If'n you're not clear on the concept of Dogs, feel free to make your way on over to the Lumpley Games site for a gander.

Thursday nights currently meet my preference, but if a significant number of players would prefer Wednesday nights, well that's ok, too.

So. Please comment to let me know if you're available and interested. I'll take players first come, first served. If somehow there is a larger number of interested players than slots available, I'll work out something as a consolation.

Should we begin play, first session would be 13 July 2006.

Any takers?

This is what I had bound. It won't fall apart on me anytime soon, unlike the softcover copy, which is already showing wear.

Dogs in the Vineyard, HC, suitable for posting. Hardcover, recently purchased. Shiny.

Oh, and in other news, there will probably be a preliminary Vandal announcement on Monday or Tuesday.

Crossposted to kublacon:

Welcome! This is a community for gamers interested in Kublacon, the Bay Area game convention. Feel free to ask questions, talk about your convention experience, answer questions, talk about games you want to play, games you want to GM, or whatever suits your fancy.

Which is to say, I just created an LJ community for Kublacon. Feel free to join me there. :-)

Thanks all for the bindery suggestions. Looks like I'll be hitting Pettingell's on Bancroft shortly after payday with a copy of Dogs in the Vineyard in hand. We'll see how that goes, I'll keep those interested up to date.• • •Happy Birthday steluch, welcome to the dark side.• • •I've been meaning to write up my impressions of Kublacon, but I've not yet taken the time to do so. We'll see if I can get around to that before the memories fade too much.• • •Watched the new Battlestar Galactica episode "Flesh & Blood". I almost wish I'd seen the episode again before I played the Captain of the Geminon Traveler in dancingshaman's LARP, "Wandering Traveler". Not that I would have done a lot differently, I suppose, but it would have been a better fix of the character in my mind.• • •Ok... back to work. Looks like Drunken Fish for lunch today, yummy.• • •Oh... and secret project, about which I will not speak to y'all until it's done? Proceeding apace. ;-)• • •ETA: Today is the anniversary of that dark day when Genseric (and some friends) sacked Rome.

The UltraCorps free Alpha has opened again with their new game Kilroy. It's a turn-based strategy game where folk seek to explore and worlds around their home. Each day in Kilroy, one turn passes. In that turn you can build fleets, dispatch them to nearby worlds, and manage diplomacy and economy. Read more about UltraCorps here.

For now, it's free to play. Check it out.

We need volunteers at KublaCon. Eight hours of help gets you a refund on your admission. You can do it all in one day, or split it up between 2, 3, or 4 days.

Give us a hand.

KublaCon is fast approaching, and deadlines are looming. Specifically, tomorrow is the last day to pre-register for the discount rate of $35. Groups and clubs can still register for cheap, but there's no sense in dallying when you can get in right now. Also note, the Settlers of Catan Regional Qualifier Tournament will be held at KublaCon again this year, and you need to pre-register for that anyway, so get up on it!

Click on Kubla for the link.


Oh, and the new Khannections Newsletter is out, too.