Dastardly Bandicoots Trampled My Gooseberries

…no pie for me

A Message Dealing With Things To Come

Changes are afoot here on the Dociverse Blog, Gentle Readers. First off, starting on my birthday (Jan. 29) I’ll be doing more Doclopedia posts. how many more? Well, this year’s theme is 365 Days, 500 Entries. Yeah, I didn’t learn my lesson with 365/365.

Not all of the entries will be long ones. Many will be quite short, and not all will be part of a multi-day theme, although I will be tackling the alphabet again. As before, I will ask for reader submitted theme ideas every once in awhile on Facebook and/or Twitter.

I am also vowing to do at least one non-Doclopedia post per week and I hope to hell y’all will comment on them.

Finally, there may also be the odd bit of collaborative world building, which will benefit from, you know, your collaboration.

I hope y’all enjoy what will, no doubt, be a mind roasting 365 days for me. I can already predict that January 29, 2013 will find me partaking of strong drink and cackling with laughter.

PS: There will be some slight changes at the Fiction Blog, too. More on that later.

Madness Takes Its Troll

…insane trolls?

Just a quick post to let y’all know that I’m off to Dundracon in about an hour and the only posts that might pop up here will be if I call Grace (my lovely wife & webmistress) and have her put something up. Actually, you’ll be much more likely to see posts like that on my Facebook page. Have a great weekend and if you are going to Dundracon, look me up and say hello.

The Day The Earth Paused And Said “Meh”

…less intense than that other movie

So, you roleplaying folks out there, a question.

If a totally no rules, usable with any system adventure was going to be written for a fantasy setting, what elements would you like to see included? How about for a pulp adventure?

Thanks in advance.

Doc Tempest And The Vanishing Children

…from the March, 1939 issue

Yo! Homies! I gotta question…

A spiffy PDF with 70 or so of my 365 entries in it, expanded and maybe revised a bit…divided into sections on People, Places & Things…plus maybe 14 all new entries…no art cos I can’t afford it unless it is totally 100% free (and, of course, not crappy)…humorous notes & stuff in the page margins.

What do ya think? Would you actually pay cash money for it? Assuming at least 1 page per entry and 84 entries, what would be a fair price?

Help me out here, y’all.

Mr. Porkwaffle Rides In An Aeroplane

…which, unfortunately, crashed into a zeppelin

Mad Gaming/Writing Thoughts

So, as if the daily 365 thing wasn’t enough, I’m thinking of doing some short bit of writing on here ever so often…like, once or twice a week. I’ve got a few ideas, but here’s the rub: Each entry would be no longer that 100 words. Even if, in the case of fiction, that meant stopping in the middle of a sentence.

I could write fiction, or maybe create a fantasy village or a super team or some other stuff. Any suggestions?

Big Jimmy And The Woman In The Purple Car

…she took him for several kinds of ride

Well, I got my LJ mojo back, then didn’t write anything for 5 days:)

My request for Theme Week ideas for the upcoming “365 Days/365 People, Places & Things” got a few responses, roughly 2/3 of which were usable. You can, of course, make new suggestions any time.

As to when this whole thing begins, I’m thinking tomorrow, Wednesday, August 18th.

And what will our first Theme Week be? Let me reach into the Big Jar O’ Theme Week Ideas and pick one…

…and our winner is: “Islands Of Adventure”, which was contributed by the ever swell avylou. Thanks, Avy!

Now, the time for doing household chores is here. More bloggage later.

Edit From 2 Hours Later: I have outlined 13 Theme Weeks so far, so that when I pull then outta the jar, I’ll have that much less thinking to do, which in my case is always a good thing. Thinking make Mongo head hurt:)

The Creepy Eyed Children Are Watching You From The Trees

…with rusty knives in their hands

Now What?

So, I’ve got my LJ/writing mojo back, but what to do with it? I’ve got an idea or two. Here is the first one…

Those of you who have stuck with reading this blog for the last several years (and by the way, thank you ever so much) remember that in 2006 I started a project called “365 Days, 365 Characters”. Later, that mutated to include Settings and Items and I managed to get to Day #121 before I blew the daily aspect of it.

So my main idea here is to restart it as “365 Days/365 People, Places & Things”. I might redo a few of the previously created characters, but 99% of what I’ll do will be new.

Now, what I need from y’all are Weekly Themes, so I can do each weeks entries in a nice little subject related package. To give you an idea of what I mean, here are some of the themes I used back then…

First Characters
Over The Edge
Pulp Era Women
Pirates!
AD&D Monsters As Characters
Wild Cards
Cats & Dogs Living Together
Average Joes
Spies
Guardians
People With Swords
Tiny Folk
Undead
Aliens
Lawmen (and women)
Pulp Era Locations
Islands

You get the idea, so tell me in your comments what themes you’d like to see me tackle.

Wicked Pigs On The Rampage

…all dressed in black leather

Oh, ye heartless blackguards! Ye made yer poor Uncle Doc have to flip a coin to decide if CyberPulp or The Great Tower gets written about on this blog. It breaks me heart that not one of ye could cast one wee vote to break the tie.

Ah well, the winner is CyberPulp. Be lookin’ fer a post about it in th’ near future.

Chicken Soup For The Free Range Celtic/Portuguese White Boy’s Soul

…assuming said “soul” was not sold to satan years ago for ale & whores & pie

Ok, folks, I’m finally feeling in a writing mood lately, but not sure what y’all would like to read about, so here is a poll concerning a few gaming related projects. The one with the most votes gets written about.

The Sweetly Sexy, Yet Wickedly Satiric, Story Of Mostly Purple Patty And The Tree House Of Doom

…co-starring her French Bulldog, Amelie

Ok, y’all, we are gonna playtest a group story telling game (one of three, actually) that I’m fixing to write up and publish. It’s called AMUSE ME! and the rules are simple: I say “amuse me”, followed by a question. Y’all answer it and I pick the answer that most amuses me. Then, I ask another question, which may or may not be based upon the answer I received. You answer that one, I choose the answer that most amuses me. Rinse and repeat until we get a story told or I get bored.

So…AMUSE ME! “Why am I in this room with a bucket full of blueberries?”

(NOTE: The other two games are called So, There We Were… and And That’s How…, both of which we will give a shot at a future date…and at DunDraCon after my Toon game)