Seems as if my five years' worth of self-exile from SoCal has ended and I'm back on my home turf. It's funny how things work out.
So... how's everyone been? That is, if anyone here still remembers me...
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- Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:27 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Gen-Con... Who's Going
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14268
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:44 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Gen-Con... Who's Going
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14268
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:41 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: The End of the Stars Wars Saga (Edition)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 29042
D6 Star Wars is still a great game, regardless of the years that have passed since it went out of print. The great thing is that a lot of the books are still available and, aside from a few, relatively inexpensive. I actually picked up the bulk of my D6 SW books at Game Empire many years ago; someon...
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:59 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: The End of the Stars Wars Saga (Edition)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 29042
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:25 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: The End of the Stars Wars Saga (Edition)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 29042
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:39 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: The End of the Stars Wars Saga (Edition)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 29042
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:12 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: The End of the Stars Wars Saga (Edition)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 29042
[quote="mordraine"]Gary, thanks for your contribution for the best d20 derivative game produced![/quote] Out of all the games I've written for, [i]Star Wars[/i] is the line I've contributed to the most (seven books total, which is about half of those released, plus an installment of the [i]Dawn of ...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:39 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: The End of the Stars Wars Saga (Edition)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 29042
[quote="devlin1"]Y'know, I was just flipping through [i]Galaxy of Intrigue[/i] the other day, and I was like "Hey, Gary's still writing Saga books! Look at that." Oh, the irony![/quote] [i]Intrigue[/i] was the last book I worked on. After that, the work dried up quite suddenly. Given that it's the ...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:15 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: The End of the Stars Wars Saga (Edition)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 29042
- Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:09 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Barrier Peaks!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6675
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:18 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Barrier Peaks!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6675
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:04 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Feel Old Yet?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5656
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:57 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Barrier Peaks!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6675
Aw, shucks. Thanks, guys. I sure do miss California. As for a Hoth book, I'm sad to report that I may be putting an end to my freelancing for the time being. Not enough hours in the day to keep my day job and family lives afloat in conjunction with the demands that freelance has on me. It's not offi...
- Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:36 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: old school gming
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7644
[quote="Skyman"]In fact entering a room is like a ritual of listen to door, check door for traps, check floor infront of door, check ceiling above door, see if it open out or in, are there any wards, Henchman opens it ajar...you get the picture.[/quote] Ahhhh, the memories! I think I'd prefer to le...
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:38 am
- Forum: Other Games
- Topic: What games you playing?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 37485
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:53 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Happy New Years!!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6156
- Thu Jan 01, 2009 3:55 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Happy New Years!!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6156
[quote="devlin1"]I'll bet! No joke -- every time Mord and I see a new Saga book with your name on it, we're like, "Hey, check it out -- Gary Astleford! I almost know that guy!"[/quote] *blush* You guys are so sweet to me. [quote="jimmy corrigan"]dude, you should move back down to sd. we can start u...
- Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:52 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Happy New Years!!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6156
[quote="devlin1"]But keep writing more of those sweet, sweet SWSE supplements, please. 19 days until the Clone Wars book comes out! [SIZE="1"](I don't know if you actually worked on that one, but we've dug the ones you [i]have [/i]worked on, so... keep that up!) [/SIZE][/quote] I did contribute to ...
- Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:43 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Happy New Years!!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6156
- Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:43 am
- Forum: Other Games
- Topic: What games you playing?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 37485
My wife gave me Fable 2 and Left 4 Dead (for the 360) for Christmas. I've played L4D a little, but most of my time has been spent on Fable 2 this past week. Prior to that, I was hooked on Grand Theft Auto 4 . I'm sure we've got a Steam account here, but I rarely use it. However, if anyone's on XBox ...
- Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:50 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Real-Life... *sigh* ...Superheroes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3999
So ... which of you guys is going to go looking to join the Artemis National Consortium and don your spandex to make San Diego a better, safer place? Don't forget to register on the World Superhero Registry . Honestly, check the link out. Look at the registry. They've all got photos. Some of the gir...
- Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:49 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Top RPGs you think others should play
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13665
[quote="cczernia"]I preferred the revised rules. One element I liked about bashing damage was that guns only did bashing damage to vampires making them much harder to kill.[/quote] Funny, I hated the addition of bashing damage in 3rd edition. Vampires were tough enough as it was, and the rules made...
- Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:47 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Top RPGs you think others should play
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13665
- Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:36 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Top RPGs you think others should play
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13665
[quote="mordraine"]Vampire (revised anyway) was probably the best rule-set of all the OWoD games.[/quote] I tend to agree that 2nd edition V:tM was the best of the lot, rules-wise (though everyone inevitably had some problem or another with Thaumaturgy and how it worked). Third edition fixed a few ...
- Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:09 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Top RPGs you think others should play
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13665
I Just Remembered
Wraith: The Oblivion (2nd edition): Probably the best of White Wolf's "forgotten" titles. The second edition cleaned up a lot of the first edition's ambiguities (but when hasn't that been the case with White Wolf?) and added a whole fuckton of clarity. The supplements for the game were, o...
- Sun Dec 28, 2008 3:48 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: The Random Picture Thread
- Replies: 475
- Views: 360087
Repent!
Or I'll say "Repent" again!
- Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:18 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Top RPGs you think others should play
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13665
Cyberpunk 2020: Stripped of its outdated class system, it's one of the best adaptations of the retro-80's cyberpunk genre. Hollow Earth Expedition: Dinosaurs. Nazis. Dinosaurs eating Nazis. Enough said. Vampire: The Dark Ages: Not to be confused with Dark Ages: Vampire , V:tDA was the game that mad...
- Fri Dec 26, 2008 2:13 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Gotetsu Jr.
- Replies: 47
- Views: 17351
- Thu Dec 25, 2008 2:03 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Merry Christmas
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3877
- Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:47 pm
- Forum: One-Shots
- Topic: Star Wars: Rise of the Rebellion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10673
- Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:47 pm
- Forum: Other Games
- Topic: I dropped out of College to be a 55lvl Tauren Deathknight
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5109
I haven't played WoW since WAR released; and I haven't played WAR (aside from the playtests at work) since before Thanksgiving. Of course, I offer this information for no other reason than to whine. When your only gaming opportunity is an MMO, and you don't even have the time to play that , it speak...
- Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:42 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Rattrap Productions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5460
- Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:01 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: happy birthday, devlin1!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3017
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:11 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: ABC To Remake V
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3611
- Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:49 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Hey fuckers.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11701
[quote="devlin1"]Very cool on both counts. I'm officially a sucker for just about any Saga supplement; they've all been pretty great so far, especially KOTOR. If nothing else, production values are always impressive. I think I prefer SWSE to 4E, to be honest. I'm also a sucker for things written by...
- Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:20 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Hey fuckers.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11701
[quote="devlin1"]I dunno, man -- consider this a prince-and-pauper situation, because writing for SWSE sounds pretty good to me. (BTW, what're you working on?)[/quote] By day, I work on Warhammer Online. At least that's what they tell me when I'm conscious enough to understand spoken language. As f...
- Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:14 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Hey fuckers.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11701
- Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:05 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Hey fuckers.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11701
[quote="devlin1"]I don't mean to make you feel bad or nothin', but check this: Saturday night, we started a Star Wars: KOTOR game at, like, 12:30 am, and played until about 4:15. This was after our session of Sundered Skies, which was after about four hours of painting minis. So yes, envy away.[/qu...
- Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:21 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Hey fuckers.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11701
[quote="devlin1"]He means "fuckers" in the nicest way possible, though. It carries the assumption that everyone here is gettin' some.[/quote] I wasn't intending to imply that he was being spiteful; nor did I intend to infer that you guys aren't fuckers (god forbid). On a different note, it appears ...
- Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:13 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: Hey fuckers.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11701
- Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:53 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Hey, Idiot! Still Playing D&D?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5127
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:22 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: FFG Needs RPG Writer/Developer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10877
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:05 pm
- Forum: Boardgames & Java
- Topic: Who Wants a Copy?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12155
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:43 pm
- Forum: Boardgames & Java
- Topic: Who Wants a Copy?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12155
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:27 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: FFG Needs RPG Writer/Developer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10877
So, the job listings at FFG have been revised. No longer are you required to move to Minnesota. They are casting the net a bit wider this time around. I can only assume that the initial response they received to the previous posting was lukewarm. Off-site contractor posting Senior RPG Developer (ful...
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:43 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: FFG Needs RPG Writer/Developer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10877
Take it from me, it's not all that glamorous. Freelancing has its up side, but it also takes a lot of work to keep your fingers in the pie. I can't imagine doing it full-time; I enjoy medical benefits and steady pay too much to risk it. If I had no other choice I might take a stab at it, but that wo...
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:48 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: FFG Needs RPG Writer/Developer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10877
[quote="BlanchPrez"]Ludicrous is right. Let me see if I understood the site. You have to write 3,000 words a day, Monday through Friday, for a crappy pay, with no benefits, but you have to move to Minnesota [i]and[/i] the best part, you have to provide your own computer! Wow. What a wonderful oppor...
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:03 pm
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: FFG Needs RPG Writer/Developer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10877
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:25 am
- Forum: Spam
- Topic: FFG Needs RPG Writer/Developer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10877