Behind the Scenes http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/ en Copyright 2006 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:07:39 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.31 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Testing Testing...

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/006045.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/006045.html Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:07:39 -0500 I'm just wondering... ...about the use of Shadow in Amber games. It can really be a lot of fun, but I notice that players rarely take advantage of it. Is this because they are more interesting in arriving? Or is it because the possibilities in Shadow are extremely under-utilized?

It is possible for PCs to control their own Shadow-shifts in descriptions in much the same way as we read in Zelazny's books, so it seems to me that it may be a lack of use and practice (by GMs) that leads to people simply going through Shadow to 'get there' rather than having fun, maybe even taking pride in the route they take through Shadow to get there.

What do you think?

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005524.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005524.html Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:53:37 -0500 Random's Kids In TKC, the children of Random are:

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005297.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005297.html Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:43:14 -0500 A Brendan Diary, Part 2 In which our hero has another very nasty shock...

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005242.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005242.html Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:27:44 -0500 A Brendan Diary, Part 1 This picks up mid-way through Brendan's diary and is the most interesting place to start...

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005236.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005236.html Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:50:41 -0500 To Kill An Amberite... Character diary coming soon...

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005235.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/005235.html Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:57:17 -0500 Ticking Over The game is still ticking over. Next year is my final year at the seminary and I should have some more time available to do some proper turns again and pick up the speed.

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/004740.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/004740.html Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:21:11 -0500 Plotting it out... I am currently busy putting into action a new plot. I think this one will be a lot more Shadow-based than others I've been running. I've certainly had fun picking out certain elements and styling them for the game.

TKC which stands for 'Thy Kingdom Come' is definitely the Amber world that I'm sticking with. It's developed over years and I'm interested to stick with it and see where it goes.

It's complex, it has many aspects that have not at all been discovered yet, and I find myself commonly inventing more plot-lines out of the ones I've finished. Generations are starting to come into action.

I've even begun placing my one-offs in this world and then adding them into the mix of the major plot-lines.

Nobility has taken off and added depth and I like the King I've got because he's good and complicated with depths for the PCs to continue to learn about.

I feel that even if the game were to end, I would keep on writing stories here and maybe playing one-offs for my husband. It's such a rich environment that my players have helped me create, I feel honored to have such a great playing field for my imagination.

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/004233.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/004233.html Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:58:47 -0500 Fey Magic And Amber I have been at seminary now for 18 months. The GMing has had to go on pause because of the homework, but here's a little excerpt of my thinking.

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/004179.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/004179.html Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:01:03 -0500 Musings about NPCs What the NPCs up to? This is so general it doesn't need to be OOC...

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/003664.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/003664.html Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:47:25 -0500 Population Explosion What would happen to Amber if Amberites suddenly started to have children at a greater rate than one every couple of hundred years, and what if it also effected the rest of Amber as well?

OOC info follows...

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/003653.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/003653.html Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:06:15 -0500 Children of Wrath A new chapter of Thy Kingdom Come has opened up deep in Shadow...

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/003606.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/003606.html Tue, 25 May 2004 08:20:07 -0500 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow! This film will be a rare treat. The combination of modern special effects, plus that whole 1940s era, plus the fact the film has that faded black and white look to it with added little bits of color here and there. This will be a marvellous treat for me. The trailer looked fantastic when I saw it at the cinema.

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/003490.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/003490.html Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:24:55 -0500 GM Workshop A new GM workshop called the Master's Council has just started up. It's a great crowd. I look forward to reading it and posting from time to time.

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/002992.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/002992.html Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:31:29 -0500 Firefly - the Film I hope this is true that Joss Whedon is making the film.

I was just getting into the series when it was cancelled.

]]> http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/002963.html http://www.skyseastone.net/scene/curtains/002963.html Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:11:25 -0500