Some of you may recall the Web-based puzzle game (original) designed to promote Spielberg’s A.I. Pretty cool stuff, made cooler for me by the involvement of Sean Stewart (original). Anyhow, that game has defined an entire genre of alternate reality games (original) and associated websites (original). The community is pretty interesting. I particularly liked this writeup of a talk given by one of the authors of the A.I. game.
The estimable Q Daily News pointed me at the High Line, an abandoned elevated railway across Manhattan. There are some absolutely beautiful photographs of the line on that side; grassy and overgrown, and looking very out of place in Manhattan.
I cannot believe that there is a Web site dedicated to Vintage MBTA maps. But I’m glad there is.
Unknown Boston is my feeling that I should be doing something with all this free time; after all, I quit Asheron’s Call. It’s also my knowledge that the most successful campaign I ever ran started with an utterly complete set of character sheets for every NPC vampire in the city. I GM better when I have the setting fleshed out. It’s also my admiration for [the Quail](http://web.archive.org/web/20080724171759/http://web.archive.org/web/20080724171759/http://www.rpg.net/quail/ (original) “”) (original) and his New York by Night (original). Would that I could accomplish something half as cool.