The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

What do you get…

matt | July 11, 2010

when you combine:

A goat
About 5 lbs of C-4
Containers of salt and nails

Answer: The world’s largest, walking, demon-spawn attracting Claymore mines….
Roleplaying game players are often very, very creative..
Oh, and Savage Worlds works really well.

Miscellany

matt | November 19, 2009

Back from Carnage. Great con. Played in:

The Unexplained. Lots of fun. Bought it.

Heavy Gear Blitz. Decent, but likely won’t pick up yet another minis game. I’m not going to say it’s better or worse than Battletech – just different. Battletech is shoot, shoot, shoot, now you’re in arm’s reach, and you beat the crap out [...]

Got the eclipse phase pdf….

matt | August 26, 2009

Eclipse Phase is a roleplaying game about.. well.. whatever you want, set in the transhuman future.
Aside from looking interesting in general, it also licensed under a CC BY NC SA license. More info is here.
Not only does this mean that I can grab bits of the book to legally make and repost a GM screen, [...]

Apparently, I’m a thief.

matt | July 22, 2009

It’s old news at this point, but Wizards of the Coast pulled all their PDF sales because folks were sharing them an infringing on their copyright.
Now, while they have every right to protect their copyrights, and indeed have a financial responsibility to do so, and further, stopping PDFs of in print products may make sense, [...]