Gaming

Everyone has bad habits... right?

Well, mine is at least not illegal (not that I know of, anyways); I spend far too much time in flights of fantasy and imagination, doing what kept me sane during my youth in the not very pleasant midwest. Okay, so I'm down to one day a week of gaming nowadays, and even that doesn't take more than 8 hours usually. There's is time beyond just what is spent on the actual gaming, the social end of it; some of that is detailed below. Is it bad that here I am, 30+ years old and theoretically an adult, and I'm still playing games? I dunno, I keep expecting someone to arrest me for impersonating an adult.

Whatev. I've actually gotten more than the obvious from my "wasted weekends", but that's an issue for another day.

In the meantime, I'm still spending some portion of my time on this. It's fun, and I have several projects in varying stages of work.

One active campaign is called Tweeners. It's a gothic horror sort of game; think trenchcoat brigade as a basic idea for what it is. It has only just started up.
Oh yeah, before you mention, it has been pointed out that the term Tweeners is used for kids between the age of 10-12. Erk. Damn. I'm still sticking with it, so ptoo.
A Bronze Age game taking place on Crete towards or past the end of the Minoan era (depending on who you reference).
All of the below is pretty old; I've left it in for kicks.
A few years back, I converted AD&D v1 to Hero,. Gasp, horrors, why mar a freeform wonderful system like Hero with a restrictive, antiquated piece of claptrap like AD&D? Why screw with the success of such a major, well supported game that anyone can play with an overly complicated, annoyingly "play-balanced" system like hero? Check here to see. By the way, I've recently begun to work on this again... things like items were never finished, and I'm expanding a bit on some critters & spells. There is a push from one of my players to include more 2nd edition stuff, but I've never really played it, so this likely won't happen.
From the above came a fairly pleasant campaign. To atone for my atrocity, though, along along with a better-than-passable series of TSR modules severely hacked, I was able to run a pretty good game. If you want to see the truly gross characters from the end of this game, click here.
One current dungeon hero game takes place in the world of Midland, "midway between the gods above and the dark evil below". Yes, this is not the happiest of games. The level is roughly 10-13th.
To balance that out, Socaldia is, in one players words, the "happy" game. Rough level at present is 5th.
I'm also working on doing a Gamma World game somewhat like my Dungeon Hero project; called, appropriately, Gamma Hero. No links to this yet, it's in such a beta state I don't want it out yet.
I'm also supposed to be adapting the basic engine of dungeon hero to make a martial arts college system. How much work is done on this? Well, just this mention is a good portion of the work... :)

And speaking of Hero system conversion stuff, here's a few links to similar projects; doing stuff with hero, the Assembly language of game systems. (Note: I need to add more to this list of links, but have been too busy).
Jaime T. Matthew has done some very interesting things with his Birthright Hero. Toor Bob says check it out.
Thomas Vickers has done work on a 2300AD to HERO conversion. Two Gauss rifle blown thumbs up.