Gaming

Won’t you join me in my quest to convince WizKids Games (original) to release a Grant Morrison miniature for HeroClix DC (original)? Grant’s a legitimate character (with superpowers) in the current DC continuity, having appeared briefly in Suicide Squad Volume 1, issue 58. Thus, he’s appropriate fodder for a HeroClix minature. I encourage you to write support@wizkidsgames.com politely registering your interest in such a figure. It’s probably good to mention that Morrison exists in continuity, as per my geekish notes above. ...

“ All these facts (original) suggest that there may be, somewhere in United States government (or better yet, the privately-held Federal Reserve system), a department of gnostic artists who perform the priestly function of communicating between man and God.”

Check out this [beautiful shot of a Child of Light](http://web.archive.org/web/20210609195135/http://web.archive.org/web/20250325044542/http://www.flyinglab.com/deltagreen/ (original)potw.htm) (original) from the Delta Green CRPG (original). Wow, that’s batrachian. (Picture changes weekly, so if you look at it and say “Hey, that’s not batrachian at all,” it’s not my fault.)

The roleplaying industry is so damned quirky. A glam science fiction RPG about the transformative power of rock and roll? Why not?

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.