Just wanted to drop a note here for the few people who follow this page.  Steve Jackson Games published a sort of mind-blowing RPG a few years back called Transhuman Space.  It was, and is, the most revolutionary table top RPG setting I've ever seen.  It was always kind of hard to find though, and went out of print sometime in 2009.  I'm happy to say that they've put it back in publication in PDF form, at a significantly reduced price.

www.sjgames.com/transhuman/

If you're looking for something different in a science fiction game, this is it.  It's a complex world, where progress has continued on at its current pace, with all the attendant good and bad that we've seen come from technological advances that we've seen in the past century.  At $17 it's a steal (I paid $37 for hardbound).  Plus, the electronic version is way easier to search.  Since this is a reference book for the setting, not a rules book, it's hard to over-emphasis the importance of the ability to search the book.  I picked up an electronic copy just so I could do that.

Check out my new column at RPG.net: http://www.rpg.net/columns/list-column.phtml?colname=/hack Called /hack, it's about making computer crime and computer related crime in RPGs both more realistic and more dramatic (those are two separate goals).

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

According to this survey I'm a bit of a drip. Of course, since my activities outside of work have consisted of different work for the last two months, this maybe isn't too far from the truth.

That is all.

Sharron Lee and Steve Miller have been doing the serial novel thing on their website for the last year. If you like space opera, you'll like their stuff. They have a new novel in the works: Saltation.

I started doing my own thing over on my own server:

http://dowling.lazarusid.com/blog/1

With a little luck it will come out well.

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