Easter Update

Wow… I haven’t blogged in a LONG time…

HAPPY EASTER! I guess that’s the first thing that’s in order, since Easter was yesterday. It was a good Easter, right now I’m with the Pilong Von Alfred family, and its rather fun. CJ (17, male) is, as always, awesome. Cherith (8, Female) is wow… really grown up and Lindsay (15?, Female) is cool I guess… I dunno… haven’t really talked to her.

So… what have I done whilst here? Lol… I just used whilst… rofl… anyways... back on topic. First off, I got all of POD’s albums, plus a few other bits of stuff, I’ll work on getting some more music later. Second off, I went to Church with the Pilongs, very interesting service. Really good worship… and the sermon was decent. I’d go again for sure.

What else? I was with the Garrets last week… with my cousins Mikey (6, Male) Joey (3 or 4, Male) and Jacob/Jakey (2, Male). They are something else… Mikey is the only six year old I know who has the word “dude” in his vocabulary. Joey is really cute, as is Jacob.

Also, I’ve pursued my GM’s handbook for Fireborn and I have a pretty good idea of how I’d run a campaign for my PCs if I do. Lol, it’ll be interesting seeing which ruleset we use for our Rps in Dhaka… 40krpg, WFRP, or Fireborn? Fantasy, Cyber Punk, or Modern+Magic? Low-born heroes? Servants of the Inquisiton? Or Dragons Reborn?

Oh… POD definitely rocks.

Anyways… fantasy world is going good, got two decent pieces of fiction going. One is set near what is now New Delhi, India, the other in New York City.

Well, after a long wait, I’ve finally managed to start my first PBP game as a GM… it’s all great fun! I’m liking all my characters… its really amazing how a person with little, if any, writing skills can so easily make up well designed characters and the like…

Anyways… the things on 40kterra (www.40kterra.com/forums) in the RP section...

As another note, I visited Uni of Texas this weekend… I won’t be going… to big, and, to be honest, I didn’t really see them selling their school to me. After visiting Baylor and having their school REALLY be sold to me… I’ve decided that if a school really wants me, they’ll sell themselves to me… I’ll be visiting two other schools, Mary-Hardin Baylor and St. Edmunds this week… both of which I think will good.

My 40k army is going nicely… I assembled my sorcerer and will be working on him as time goes along… assembling my rhino and predator is an absolute PAIN… I’m so glad I won’t be buying many more of tanks… they are a pain to assemble…

Anyways… on with life…

Update... finally... sorry for the delay...

Wow… I haven’t blogged in a while… well… anyways… here I am… time to get typing…

So… what’s happened since then… I got a ton of 40k stuff… I finished Neverwhere (very good book… I recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy and/or has lived in London) I went to Baylor University… and umm… ya… lots of stuff.

Anyways… Baylor… it was good… nice campus… seemed like a good school… I guess I’ll be applying to it, assuming I have a chance of actually getting in. The good thing is that all they care about is my SAT/ACT score (which ever I choose to submit) so that’s great. Anyways… next Saturday I’m going to see the Uni of Texas (UT), and I believe the week after this I will visit Mary-Hardin Baylor… so I have a lot of places to visit.

40k… *sigh* I have WAY too many models… and I need to order Jacob’s stuff… that will get complicated… anyways… I need to talk to my mom about that… plus I need to message Ikarus…

Anyways… hmm… what else is new… nothing really… darn… no wonder I haven’t blogged… my life is boring. Lol.

Oh! Before I forget! Fantasy Flight Games, a Board Game and RPG company bought the rights to WFRP and Dark Heresy! Dark Heresy is ALIVE! ALIVE I TELL YOU! (not that it had actually died… but you know what I mean… I think…)

Anyways… so I guess that’s all I have to say about my life…

Dark Heresy.... and other stuff... but mainly... Dark Heresy

You know… I have a lot to talk about… lots of stuff.

First off, I am reading a very good book… I stopped Bitterwood, but I’ll finish it later. Right now I’m reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman… I recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy books. Second off… I… got… DARK HERESY! To anyone who likes roleplaying games, dark tales, warhammer 40k, or anything related to any of this, buy this book. While I am not too fond of how the game does it careers, it works, while I’m sure there are some things that could be changed and made less confusing (the psychics rules are messing with me right now… I still haven’t completely gotten how many pychic powers you should get, etc) but, the point is… the game is quite cool. It hits the theme of 40k right at its heart, everywhere. There are some amazing full color and black-and-white artwork that makes me want to grab a pair of autoguns and hunt down the enemies of man.

Anyways... if I ever get to play Dark Heresy I’ve decided that I’m going to play a Hive Wolder Guardsman… some sort of mercenary/IG who has the standard Hive World gear… either dreadlocks or a Mohawk, several tattoos, lots of cigarettes, and a pair of big, archaic, guns. I’ll be the guy who wants the biggest guns possible. You know, the guy who goes a bit insane, but is so amazing in combat? That’s me. Either that, or a man from an Imperial World who has a penchant for sniping… or maybe I’ll play a Tech-Priest from a Hive-World, one who desires only to please Ommissah? Darn… too… many… ideas…

Anyways… what else have I done? Honestly… I don’t know… everything sorta just seems to be well… a faint memory compared to Dark Heresy, rofl.

Anyways… I’ve started as GM on 40kterra… so far I have two guardsmen an a scum, while two of my characters still haven’t figured out what they want quite yet. I think I’m going to get an arbite and something else… not sure what, maybe assassin? Anyways, it’ll be cool….

Oh… in other news, I have devised a political system for a fictional country. Well… I should say that me, Naomi, and Michael did so. It was part of our school work, it was really coolio. Here’s a paragraph that, in brief, describes what we did. Mind you, we’re still not done, we need to work on the economy, and other stuff, but this is a rough draft of how the countries political system should work.

The Country of Freedonia is a combination of five local tribes and various foreigners who have lived within its borders for several generations. Each of these groups (the five Freedonian tribes and the one white “tribe”) will be able to elect members to the Lower House of the Freedonian Congress, one member per 20,000 people in said tribe. This Congress, once assembled, will have one year to organize itself and choose from amongst itself 12 members, two from each tribe, who will form the Higher House of the Freedonian Congress. This Higher House, once elected and put into office, will have the total of six weeks to elect from amongst themselves a President to preside over them, this President will be , for all intents and purposes, considered the Head of the Government of the Freedonia.

Ya… so that was my Civics for last week… it was really fun. I can already see some problems with the government, and not everything we have is noted in that paragraph, so it still needs some work, but, its mostly good. In all honesty, I think that it’s really good.

Oh… also, I bought the 1^st book in Tad William’s trilogy (?) Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn… or something like that. Haven’t started it yet, but it looked good, and Brian said that it wasn’t bad… so I’ll be reading it after Bitterwood and Neverwhere…. Darn, I have to many books… I have like… two others I need to read as well… though one of them’s actually a collection of short stories… not an actual book… so I don’t mind just reading random parts of it for awhile.

Ah… well… I need to get to Science… today’s a Friday, so it’s the last day of school… I’m going to enjoy the weekend… the combination of a Laptop and Dark heresy… it’s the closest to Heaven that I may ever get… lol.

See you next time!

Lost...

I’m a very bad boy.

You see… last night, I watched Lost. Very bad boy.

Of course, it doesn’t help that my mom watched it… but, actually, I think I’m glad… sure, Jack, Sawyer/James, Hugo/Hurley etc are all a bunch of idiots sometimes… but I think I can get over that…

Anyways… not much else to tell you guys… except to watch Lost… join the ranks of the brainwashed and insane, watch Lost, watch Heroes, watch House… you know you want to.

Oh, and above all… DO NOT WATCH AMERICAN IDOL!!!!!!!!!!!! EVIL , EVIL, EVIL! Understand everyone? No one is to watch this evil show.

NOTE: I forgot to post this... it was written on feb 1

WFRP... the sad demise

Well… I suppose I should write about this now before I forget about it completely, but, I have some very sad news to tell you all… Black Industries, the creators of the Award-Winning Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay line and the creator of the highly anticipated Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Dark Heresy, is shutting down.

Now… they didn’t want to… and it really sucks, but the truth is that their parent company, Games Workshop, is losing money, and needs to streamline themselves again, refocus on their primary market which is the war gaming business, everything else comes secondary. And, sadly, RPGs are just not lucrative enough to warrant them keeping in the business.

Now… what does this mean for me? Well, it means I need to speed buy all my books that I want to buy, and grab them all from Amazon.com before it’s too late. Secondly, it means that a large amount of the expected 40kRPG will not even be released. Its so depressing.

But… there is yet hope! This is not the first time Games Workshop has abandoned its RPG market for more “lucarative” gains. We, the fans, are used to this, and while I myself am a new comer to this situation, I am not prepared to pick up DnD 4^th ed. Which is evilness incarnate.

No, instead I shall press forward with renewed strength to delve into the darkness which Black Industries did not! I, and many other devoted fans have endeavored to begin our work of creating fan-made sourcebooks for our wonderful game. So far, we have in line several books… an elf sourcebook, a dwarf sourcebook, a Halfling sourcebook, a Araby/Lands of the Dead Sourcebook, A Estelia/Tilea sourcebook, and a Goblinoid Sourcebook. I myself have committed to the Goblinoid Sourcebook, even though I have no idea what the heck I am supposed to do, or what this entails…

So… wish me good luck so that I may manage, somehow, somewhere, to do well in this process, so that those who love WFRP will not be let down and that our sourcebooks will be of spectacular quality.

My weekend was… unique. In what ways you ask? Well… my grandfather had appendicitis. His appendix exploded. Yes, he is fine. He in the hospital and quite alright, however, it did mess up my weekend a bit. You see, we were supposed to watch a movie or two, go to Barnes and Nobles, enjoy life, etc. Instead, we end up in the house, ALL DAY LONG with no one… just me and my PC… hey, I think I could make a song out of that… ROFL.

Anyways… so what did I do? I played Civ 4… all day long… I was Spain, in total, I killed Alexander the Great of Greece, and Caesar of Rome, crippled Louis XIV of France, and then tried and failed to defeat Fredrick the Great of Germany. I then proceeded to lose the space race and a Diplomatic Victory that I knew was my only hope of winning… *sigh* I can’t even win on the easy level of play.

The one thing I think I can take home from that game was this… don’t declare war if you can’t win. I knew I couldn’t… I thought that I could possibly swing it… but I couldn’t he just had better military units that I did… at first, it was just some infantry, which would rip apart my cavalry, but then it was marines… yes, war in the modern age is just not fun. Anyways… next time I believe that I will attempt to fight someone more… easy…

Oh, another thing, my diplomatic skills need work… I lost the diplomatic victory because I declared war against Fredrick, and chose the wrong side with the American war of Montezuma v Roosevelt.

So… once again, the Official Empire of Isaac fails in its bid to world domination…. Dumb Chinese and their cheap toys… I bet that’s why the beat me, they bribed everyone to abstain from the voting so they could win!

And now onto the next item on my agenda… Black Industries is shutting down.

No this isn’t some cruel early April Fools’ Joke… its for real, BI, the beloved creaters of WFRP V2 and 40kRPG Dark Heresy are shutting down… the reason… its more profitable to sell novels, not RPG source books. All I can say is… they suck. It really has gotten me angry that Black Library would do this, I mean, its good business sense and they are a business that is in it for the money… but it still sucks. What sucks more is that I have this strange feeling that there will be no sale of PDF format books… and Green Ronin, who has partnered with BI on the RPG development part will probably not be able to continue creating books.

I mean… what I am supposed to say about this? Black Industries introduced me to the wonderful hobby of roleplaying. And, while surely this game will continue to be popular… I just think that it sucks that Black Industries would do this. If they do decide to release their books in PDF format… that would be great, it would mean that I could buy all the Source books at my leisure, instead of deciding what I want to buy and quickly grabbing it all up… and then getting annoyed that I can’t buy other things that I wanted more… but waited for because I can buy them later.

Anyways… I think I’m going to write something else for now… I’m in the car right now, and I don’t want to go back a few miles and see if I can hack the Police’s wireless (unlike Bangaldesh, the police hear are actually competent… sometimes, ROFL)… I’ll upload when I get home.

So… in an attempt to garner some comments… anyone… how was your weekend? You can tell me via email (which I’m not giving because I don’t want spam… if you don’t have it… I don’t want your comment via email) on this blog… on facebook… on MSN or google talk… I don’t care.

You could SMS it to me, or even call me… but I don’t have a cellphone (yet!) so sorry.

Isaac… the masterofweirdness and toastmast4r