A slight change of direction for my theoretical Earthdawn game.

I've made a couple of posts about the possibility of running a game based on the great Earthdawn setting before, but some recent reading and thought has led me to change the feel of the campaign a bit. I'm making things darker. A lot of this is based on my reading Warhammer 40K novels. The paranoia and constant battles against the alien and the powers of Chaos just rocks as a setting for grand adventure, but I'm itching to go back to my sword-slinging fantasy roots. More Warhammer Fantasy RPG than Dungeons & Dragons. (I'm tempted to splurge and get the boxed edition of the 3rd edition of WHFRP)

While the Horrors can no longer physically try to burrow into Kaers, they can still reach out and corrupt and twist. Dark cults would venerate them, and do everything in their power to bring the Horrors back. Demon-haunted ruins would dot the twisted countryside, filled with lost treasures and near-certain death.. or worse. And there would be parties from other Kaers that survived the dark centuries, each seeking to elevate their city to supremacy in this brave new world.

Like this very much. I especially like that WHFRP seems to be best for a GM and three players; as that's a ratio I'm very comfortable with.

Reboosting my own signal.

I am creating a Local Gamer filter. I now live only five minutes from a great game store with oodles of tables for play. No charge, you just need to schedule a time. So I am now going to start doing a series of polls to determine what people want, and how they want to do this.

In the past, such polls have always attracted several well-meaning people who are local only in that they live on the same planet. I understand wanting to contribute, but it gets frustrating.

So, let me know if you want to be on this filter. "Local" in this context means being able to make it to Santa Clara (specifically to Game Kastle) once or twice a month to spend a day gaming, probably with food after. "Gamer" means you are interested in playing a paper and pencil role-playing game with me as the GM (although I'd love to get a group going with other people taking the chair from time to time. I love having players who take an active role in building the game.

Everyone can comment, but please use the phrase Please add me to the filter in your reply if you meet the criteria. If you're not local, and want on just to see what I'm planning, go ahead, but please do not take part in any planning polls. I'm really kind of desperate to get a social life going again.

HEAVY METAL THURSDAY OMG CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!!!!

This couldn't wait.

He's ten fucking years old! He's playing Randy Rhodes' guitar! OMGWTFBBQ!

Ozzy Osbourne with Yuto Miyazawa - "Crazy Train" @ Yahoo! Video

Miyazawa recently joined Osbourne on the singer's six-date summer Ozzfest tour, performing the classic "Crazy Train" alongside Ozzy and his band. Blabbermouth tracked down footage from the August 21 show in Hartford, Connecticut, where Miyazawa did an awe-inspiring Randy Rhoads impression: He wailed on the same black-with-white polka-dotted flying-V guitar Rhoads was known to use - and Ozzy even hoisted the young guitarist into the air (around the three-minute mark) to replicate the cover of the song's 1987 live single. On his Twitter account, Miyazawa linked to a snapshot of himself shredding on Ozzy's shoulder, adding, "I like this photo!"