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Texas Roach-Eating News

Posted by Jason on September 22nd, 2006 — in Check this out dude

Eat a roach, skip a line.

Eat a Roach, draw a dark curtain over the future of humanity.

The Vampire Hunters

Posted by Jason on September 12th, 2006 — in Design

Lamest, most to-the-point name ever. I’m open to suggestions.

So me and The Goat watched Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter Sunday night and 24 hours later I’d turned it into a game.

I have not tried it yet but I suspect with the right people it will be very fun and functional. I estimate play time to be about an hour, maybe an hour and a quarter. It is highly constrained, both in situation and character. You make a few character and setting choices in a competitive way initially, and these serve as the most rudimentary flags to your fellow players. After that the creative bits come from elaborating on a ten-scene script. You create clues (offers, improvisers) that appear later to exculpate innocent villagers (reincorporation, improvisers). There are four fight scenes. I think it emulates the inspirational film quite well. You always beat the vampire in the end, but at what cost? Playtesting will tell, but I think I’m onto something fun.