Month: July 2012
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Class Notes: Bringing it Together
Read More: Class Notes: Bringing it TogetherAs promised last week, I did in fact finish Plot Point 10. Here’s the stats: Plot Points Completed: 10 of 12 Pages: 44 of 47 PP word count: 2,276 of 25,248 Although many of my plot points call back to what has come before, this adventure–the first of the Senior year plot points–is where I really had to…
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Campus Tour: Tiny Wings Daycare
Read More: Campus Tour: Tiny Wings DaycareAs part of ongoing efforts to change the university’s image as a party school, in 1994 former President Patterson authorized the creation of a university-sponsored daycare for children of faculty, staff, and adult students. The daycare, named Tiny Wings, opened two years later on the ground floor of the Education building. The daycare was staffed…
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Class Notes: Regaining Lost Momentum
Read More: Class Notes: Regaining Lost MomentumI’m trying to get back into the habit of posting a Class Notes update whether or not I’m done with a plot point. In this case, it’s “not”. Even so, I actually feel pretty good about how things are going. Considering I was on a camping trip for three nights last week,[1. Camping in Texas…
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Class Notes: Brought to You By the Letter i
Read More: Class Notes: Brought to You By the Letter iSince I do my editing from multiple computers, I keep my Degrees of Horror files stored on the cloud so that I can access them from wherever I happen to be. I’ve developed my own versioning system so that if I delete a line or paragraph that I later want to restore I have the…
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The Michael Rohan Memorial Fund
Read More: The Michael Rohan Memorial FundIf you’re a parent, this cause will resonate with you. If you’re a gamer, this multi-publisher bundle is more than 90% off what you would normally pay for these titles. If you’re both, then what are you waiting for? Oh, did I mention that it includes Chickens in the Mist? ************* The Michael Rohan Memorial…
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The Making of East Texas University
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The “Last” Hurrah
By 2007, we were doing great things. We published The Beast Within by Mike DeSanto and Jerry Blakemore wrote Skinwalker. The Beast Within starts with a strange auto accident that leads to a murder investigation. This adventure featured our Fear Effects rules. When we were playtesting this one, Preston was acting as our Game Master…
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