Timewaster's Guide Archive

So after a comment made by Prom the other day I've been thinking about this.

A lot of TV shows and movies are being remade but are "darker" than the original. What exactly does that mean?

The show in question was the new Battlestar Galactica, which is a lot more serious than the original, but also has more use of black and gray in it's production design.

Then I was thinking about the upcoming remake of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" which is also being declaired as "darker" than the original.

So, is this just a new use of terminology that is so over used that it really has lost all meaning? And what is the fascination with remaking stuff darker?

So what do people think about killing a campaign? Not because players have left (though some have), just because the gm isn't sure where to take it and has lost some interest. When do you know it's time to just let things end?

Sure we can start a spoiler thread for Revenge of the Sith.

I haven't seen it yet, but I will have in about 6 hours, then I hope to discuss things of a spoiling nature.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/BestWorstSci-Fi

Because I'm feeling a lack of inflamitory discussion on the board.

Is anyone willing to stick up for the Original Battlestar Galactica? Anyone want to trash talk Babylon 5?

Discuss.

So the D20 player's guide of Gamma World is out for free on drivethrurpg.com

I haven't read much of it, but it seems like a cool world. Course, for some reason they decided to make it more generic for D20. If you're making a source book, why do you need to genericize it?

Anyways, throwing around random mutations seems like lot of fun.

So I'm now aparrently in charge of teaching a writing group, occassionally, at Wasatch Mental Health. My years of hanging around writers apparently makes me a little more qualified than the social worker who was running it. Plus, knowing people in the publishing field seems to make me more appealing to some of the clients.

So what shoud I teach them and what sort of activities should we do? Bear in mind that these people have a lot of emotional baggage. So the end goal isn't the same as it is with a college or even a high school. This is more along the lines of personal enrichment.

So I'm thinking I'd like to start a new on-line rpg. Like the last one I did, it will likely run for only a couple of months, so people who aren't willing to post more than once a week need not apply.

What I'm thinking of is that I would like to run a campaign in Mystara.

Yes this would be D&D. Mystara is the setting originally invented by Dave Arneson. It was the setting used by original/basic D&D.

I'm trying to dig up info about Mystara, but what I can tell you is that it is kind of a swashbuckling 14th century fantasy setting. The part that interests me is that there are no gods, instead there are immortals. Immortals were once people/adventurers who became so powerful that they gain immortality and then went on to be gods in places like Faerun.

So I'm thinking the campaign would be a D&D epic campaign in Mystara.

Thought? Opinions?

Today has been good. I got to interview at UVSC for a job I really want. I think it went well.

Also, for the interview I tried fitting into my old 32 inch waist suit. It was a little snug but it fit okay and didn't look too tight. About year ago I was pushing to get into size 38. Anxiety, stress, and figeting just melts away the pounds.