Now that I don't have to concern myself with the A-to-Z Blog Challenge I can get on to more pressing matters.
What I am running, and with whom...
This is a bit like my past 'State of Gaming' addresses, but with the purpose of helping me to organize my thoughts as opposed to entertaining you my audience (My apologizes. Honestly, I haven't forgotten about you. I'll try to be entertaining anyway).
We begin with...
Dan's Group, and The Masked Age 66':
Following a pretty successful first arc of three, consecutive, Friday night sessions, we are going to alternate the campaign to every other Friday night going forward. On the nights I don't run, my friend Alex is running a Harry Potter/Wizarding World/Hogwarts game in which I am a player.
I am really liking the Hogwarts game a lot so I have no problem switching off. Basically it amounts to playing a Harry Potter game twice a month, and running Silver Age Superheroes with a Twist twice a month. I am absolutely good with that.
Oh course, the Superhero game is not without it's bumps. It's a tough group to please in some respects. I'm hopeful however.
The Google Hangouts Group, Kapow!, and Galaxy Quest!:
Whoohoo! I am super excited about this.
For about two years now my friend Keith has been running a really cool Superhero RPG called Kapow! in his own homebrew world. I have played a number of characters in the setting, but for the longest time now I've been using a Superhero named Equinox.
Equinox is actually a very old character I helped my friend Sergio create waaay back before we even knew about RPGs. When I discovered Villains & Vigilantes in 1982 we made up Equinox for a game, and he was so cool I decided to remake him for Kapow!
I've stepped in a few times as GM to cover Keith when he had a family thing, or had to otherwise miss a session (which in two years has been maybe three times. It is exceptionally rare). When I run, the players play a different group of heroes on my alternate setting of Earth-F-Omega, a variant on the Mutants and Masterminds Freedom City* Universe by Green Ronin.
I filled in with an Earth-F-Omega session three weeks ago, and ended up continuing the story even as Keith came in to join us. Tomorrow will be my last session of the arc. Keith then goes away on vacation for two weeks ( ! ), so I offered to run something else. Something different. That's when things got really interesting...
Keith proposed that going forward one of us (he, or I) would run a game for several sessions, or perhaps a month or so, and then the other would take over and do the same. He will be continuing Kapow!, while I plan on a Science Fiction/Space Opera type series. As a test run, I will be GMing a short Galaxy Quest adventure over the two weeks Keith is gone.
More details as I have them. Very excited to get the best of both worlds out of my Wednesday night online game.
Last, but not least...
The Barking Alien Gaming Group, and What Comes Next:
It's been well over a month since I've met with the players in my Barking Alien Gaming Group.
For a short while there it looked like that particular gaming group incarnation had run its course. Luckily, that is not the case. I had a nice sit down discussion with two of the players, and I'm going to try to redouble my efforts to make a game that works for this bunch. In exchange, one of the players will try to overcome a few of his...um...less endearing habits...which often threaten to derail our games. The other player I spoke to will try to keep the first one on track, and act as an intermediary if the player, and I bump heads.
As I look at what I am running, and playing with the other groups I'm a part of, I have to say I'm pretty happy I'm getting the opportunity to run two of my favorite genres already. I'm running Superheroes with one, and I'll soon be running Space Opera/Adventure with the other. I don't need to run those with my monthly group. I am free to tackle something else.
But what?
Then it hit me, and if it didn't make so much sense I probably would've hit it back.
Aerth. My Dungeons & Dragons-But-Not setting of almost 35 years. Superheroic, Anime Influenced, Folklore Fueled [Vaguely] Medieval Fantasy.
System wise I won't be using any form of D&D however. I want to enjoy this. I'm going to be adapting Ars Magica for this campaign.
Yes. I'm going there.
AD
Barking Alien
Monday, April 18, 2016
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
ALIEN VACATION...CANCELLED
Yeah. Forget it.
I have too much going on to work on this, and not nearly enough enthusiasm.
It's a shame. I really thought the initial idea was pretty sweet.
Oh well. Maybe some other time.
On to other things.
AD
Barking Alien
I have too much going on to work on this, and not nearly enough enthusiasm.
It's a shame. I really thought the initial idea was pretty sweet.
Oh well. Maybe some other time.
On to other things.
AD
Barking Alien
Saturday, April 9, 2016
ALIEN VACATION...REIMAGINED
My ALIEN VACATION theme for this month's A-to-Z Blog Challenge? Well...
I'm reimagining it.
The truth is, I reimagined it starting from the very first post.
What I actually want to do is go back to my original idea. For some reason that I can't explain, for the first post of this series I wrote something that was not really what I wanted, or intended to write.
Unfortunately, once I wrote it, and posted it, it soured my enthusiasm for continuing. I knew what I wrote was not what I'd originally envisioned, and [honestly] I kind of hated it. As a result as I put off the project. I lost my focus, and my excitement over the whole thing. I'm sensitive that way.
To fix this situation I am declaring a do-over.
The old 'first entry' has been deleted.
What follows is the new first entry, and my proper attempt at completing the A-to-Z Blog Challenge for 2016.
Thank you for your time, and sorry for any confusion.
AD
Barking Alien
I'm reimagining it.
The truth is, I reimagined it starting from the very first post.
What I actually want to do is go back to my original idea. For some reason that I can't explain, for the first post of this series I wrote something that was not really what I wanted, or intended to write.
Unfortunately, once I wrote it, and posted it, it soured my enthusiasm for continuing. I knew what I wrote was not what I'd originally envisioned, and [honestly] I kind of hated it. As a result as I put off the project. I lost my focus, and my excitement over the whole thing. I'm sensitive that way.
To fix this situation I am declaring a do-over.
The old 'first entry' has been deleted.
What follows is the new first entry, and my proper attempt at completing the A-to-Z Blog Challenge for 2016.
Thank you for your time, and sorry for any confusion.
AD
Barking Alien
Friday, April 1, 2016
The A-to-Z Blog Challenge: GALACTIC LAMPOON'S ALIEN VACATION!
It's April again, and you know what that means don't you? It's time for me to fail the A-to-Z Blog Challenge.
Yep, this time every year for the past few years I attempt to join the long, and varied list of bloggers who partake in the A-to-Z Challenge, only to find I am unable to complete it. Repeatedly. You'd think that after a while I would give up, not bother, and save myself the hassle.
You'd think.
Well, the fact of the matter is...
The fact of the matter is we're out of here!
Barkley? Where've you been lately? I was just making a post introducing this year's A-to-Z Challenge.
Yes, I heard as much. Sounds like a hoot. Luckily, it's not a concern. You my dear friend, and I, are going on vacation!
Vacation?
Vacation! I took the liberty of packing your bag for you, I have the blog on standby, the Emergency Holo-chronal Adam has been activated, my cousin has promised to come by three times a week to feed the unnamed horror living on Level 25M, and we are good to go!
What?...I can't. I have to...
Non-sense! One month, that's thirty days or so, traveling the galaxy aboard a Happy Hunting Tours star cruiser. I've rented us a personal exploratory saucer which can launch from the mothership, fly around for a closer look, or even land on any of the various planets the tour will visit.
We...we're going to other planets?
Yessiree! It's going to an incredible adventure! Just you,and me old chum (and the hundred or so other passengers on the star cruiser)! We're going to go to different worlds, see the creatures there, sentient life if there is any, and maybe check out some ancient ruins from bygone civilizations. That's more for you. I know you love that stuff.
Plus, the Happy Hunting Tours vessel has over a dozen restaurants from around the cosmos, at least five cantinas, three nightclubs, a zero-gee handball court, three swimming pools (although only one has Human safety compatible conditions), and much, much more. You are going to see, and do so many amazing things...
That I'll have tons of material for the A-to-Z Challenge! Barkley, you're a genius!
Well, I don't know about being a genius. Smart yes, and dashing for sure. I...wait a second. No, no, no! This isn't about...
This is perfect! It shows here on this computer pad that I can alphabetize the trip's itinerary. That means an A-to-Z listing of all the aliens, sites, food, EVERYTHING!
Yep, this time every year for the past few years I attempt to join the long, and varied list of bloggers who partake in the A-to-Z Challenge, only to find I am unable to complete it. Repeatedly. You'd think that after a while I would give up, not bother, and save myself the hassle.
You'd think.
Well, the fact of the matter is...
The fact of the matter is we're out of here!
Barkley? Where've you been lately? I was just making a post introducing this year's A-to-Z Challenge.
Yes, I heard as much. Sounds like a hoot. Luckily, it's not a concern. You my dear friend, and I, are going on vacation!
Vacation?
Vacation! I took the liberty of packing your bag for you, I have the blog on standby, the Emergency Holo-chronal Adam has been activated, my cousin has promised to come by three times a week to feed the unnamed horror living on Level 25M, and we are good to go!
What?...I can't. I have to...
Non-sense! One month, that's thirty days or so, traveling the galaxy aboard a Happy Hunting Tours star cruiser. I've rented us a personal exploratory saucer which can launch from the mothership, fly around for a closer look, or even land on any of the various planets the tour will visit.
We...we're going to other planets?
Yessiree! It's going to an incredible adventure! Just you,and me old chum (and the hundred or so other passengers on the star cruiser)! We're going to go to different worlds, see the creatures there, sentient life if there is any, and maybe check out some ancient ruins from bygone civilizations. That's more for you. I know you love that stuff.
Plus, the Happy Hunting Tours vessel has over a dozen restaurants from around the cosmos, at least five cantinas, three nightclubs, a zero-gee handball court, three swimming pools (although only one has Human safety compatible conditions), and much, much more. You are going to see, and do so many amazing things...
That I'll have tons of material for the A-to-Z Challenge! Barkley, you're a genius!
Well, I don't know about being a genius. Smart yes, and dashing for sure. I...wait a second. No, no, no! This isn't about...
This is perfect! It shows here on this computer pad that I can alphabetize the trip's itinerary. That means an A-to-Z listing of all the aliens, sites, food, EVERYTHING!
"Not what I had in mind..."
Oh boy...
Barkley my friend, I don't know how to thank you.
Neither do I.
I can't wait to get started!
A-to-Z Blog Challenge across the Milky Way, here we come!
*sob*
AD
Barking Alien
Wait...Happy Hunting Tours? Hmmm...
Barkley my friend, I don't know how to thank you.
Neither do I.
I can't wait to get started!
A-to-Z Blog Challenge across the Milky Way, here we come!
*sob*
AD
Barking Alien
Wait...Happy Hunting Tours? Hmmm...
Oh, by the way...
This is the 1000TH POST ON BARKING ALIEN!!! WOOHOO!
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