The Sakura Dojo

Been a bit since I last posted, but been collecting various bits and piece from around the web that might interest people. These seemed appropriate to a cyberpunkish future:

Brain interface made of silk, a new way to layer electrodes to interface with the brain.

10 Smart Clothes you will be wearing soon not convinced on that (nor all they all really clothes) but the networked jacket is amazing and I would so wear one of them.

A perfect threat McGuffin for a scenario Cruise missile launcher concealed in a cargo container.

Lastly, the Speed Racer live action movie. Behind all the neon colors and homage to the anime is the story of a world controlled by megacorporations who use bloodsports to manipulate share prices and the masses.

Over on my gaming journal, a link to a free PDF I did for the retro-futuristic pulp setting of Rocketship Empires: 1936. Have fun.

The cast of Junior Yoriki Squad B and JYSB Game Report 1.

I needed a theme for Decemeber at the Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal so I dcided on Gifts.

The first item for the theme is The Perfect Toy Box.

I am also taking requests and suggestions, so if there is something you would like to see, let me know, here or there (or both).

Just my random discussion of various RPG points over at my Sea of Stars Design Journal, for this, the first one, Moral Dilemma: Slavery.

But you can rejoin at GenCon . . . Wizards of the Coast is having an amazingly awesome contest, the Never Split the Party Contest in fact: Describe your gaming group that has since broken up and you could win a trip for all the group (up to six) to GenCon!

Have links to the wiki and the forum up on the Sea of Stars RPG Project webpage.

Now I need some people to poke around and let me know what they want to see next. Any volunteers?

Sea of Stars RPG, I am in the process of organizing this into a proper resource site and community. Right now, it is just a holding page but I will let people know as it evolves.

Thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome.

Lost revision of Hamlet found!

There used to be a stringed instrument called the epigonion, modern researchers have digitally reconstructed it. You can listen to it here at the ASTRA project.

One dimension over, Gygax and Arneson decided to use the Greek myths as a based for their ground breaking fantasy gaming system Mazes and Minotaurs!

"Al Gore you've doomed us all."

Yes, I know, I have not been too good with these but such is life.

We have been trying out John Wick's new game, Houses of the Blooded. An interesting game both system-wise and stylistically, as it is designed for tragedy, epic tragedy but still tragedy. Characters are part of the Ven nobility, a mythical race and culture, and are competing for power, glory and a thousand other things. My character is a poet and rake of the House of the Fox, charming and brilliant, he is also addicted to life's pleasures, all of them. We have only played two sessions so far, so we are still working out how the system plays and what we can do with it. I am having fun so far though.

Alternating with that at the moment is nemloen's Temple of Elemental Evil, yes the old Gygaxian D&D adventure, which we are playing with a hack (variant) of the FATE 3.0 rules. It has been a great deal of fun, high silliness and wacky action abounds.

My Sea of Stars game continues ever so slowly, I just have not found the inspiration needed to frame the closing of the current arc. Hopefully soon.