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Reading, Thinking, and Tweeting

Unfortunately I have had a bit of a bad spell and I am in bed for my back again for a few days.  Lots of gaming thoughts are percolating.  I've also been a bit more active on twitter.

If you get a chance to read the twitter feed as of late, there are some cool #PungeonCrawl and #GMConfessions.  I even got a retweet from the infamous Dungeon Bastard, and a favorite from my favorite GM, Chris Perkins.  I've picked up a few new followers, so hopefully they find their way here in time.

Somebody over on Reddit noted that we are coming up on the 50th anniversary of Dune next year.  It is cool that it coincides with me adding a space element to my Pathfinder postmodern cyberpunk extension.  Someone recommended looking at Fading Suns for a Dune-like game, so I decided to pick up an older copy of the d20 version of the books for it.  That will be some good reading when it arrives.

I've also recently gotten copies of FATE and FATE Accelerated to read, and I'm working my way through them.  Fate Accelerated seems pretty awesome.

I've been working on a d20-like game inspired by The Walking Dead.  I was planning on using a "gain skills as you use them" type of mechanic.  Good old Mike Mearls mentioned sometime later on his AMA how he was really wanting to add a similar mechanic of D&D 5e.  Great minds think alike, I guess.

I've been watching a lot of youtube videos lately on gaming topics.  I am hoping to get back to miniature painting again soon, and I have some new basing techniques to try out.  I have to admit though, YouTubers tend to ramble.  Please folks, get to the point quickly when you post videos.  Here's a good cooking channel that does exactly that, as an example,
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