The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Gameenk stuff

matt | September 27, 2008

- My copy of D20 Call of Cthulhu came in. Rawk. Of course, since I tend to read multiple things at a time (and gaming books are no different), my nightstand (I usually read in bed) has Monte Cook's World of Darkness, D20 Call of Cthulhu (written by Monte Cook and John Tynes), octaNe, and [...]

Carnitas

matt | September 26, 2008

Hat tip to
Recipe. Awesome food. Can be recycled into pulled pork sandwiches too (just add BBQ sauce).

Schtuff

matt | September 25, 2008

This analysis of the current financial situation (and how we got here) has been pretty much reposted all over the place, and I'm going to repost it here, because I think it is good.
Here is what Ron Paul has to say about it as well

Stuff

matt | September 20, 2008

Been busy.
There's not much progress on the gaming front. Folks were initially interested, but for the most part, weren't interested enough to join the mailing list which I'm using to coordinate the game. Of course, these things can't be pushed, so I'm just going to let it ride. Whatever happens, happens.
I did, however, score a [...]

D20 Modern

matt | September 9, 2008

Regarding this post, I am slightly less interested in the Modern rules mentioned therein. Basically, they kind of fleshed out some of the classes and things, but they are incomplete, just being rules and character classes. You need the SRD to play. So, if I need the SRD, I might as well just use the [...]

The pledge of allegience

matt | September 9, 2008

I fixed it:
I pledge allegiance to the Republic of the United States of America, one nation by mutual consent, with liberty and justice for all.
Hat tip to for this thread where an earlier version of this was posted.

Played with some games last night

matt | September 5, 2008

I installed: freeciv, freecol, boswars, warzone2100 and lincity-ng from the repositories. Impressions:
- FreeCiv works but CivCTP is more fun
- FreeCol works but CivCTP is more fun
- Boswars works, but Starcraft is more fun
- Warzone2100 works and is good
- Lincity-ng works. Jury is still out on it vs. Simcity 3000 Unlimited.
Also, I got sc3000 working off [...]

Gaming

matt | September 2, 2008

Note: I wrote this late at night, and reading it now I realize that it was largely incoherent. So, I've rewritten it
As I blogged about before, I'm looking more closely at online gaming tools, given that all the leads I've gotten on games are about an hour away. MapTool and OpenRPG seem to be the [...]