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• 13:29 Hello one and all. Busy day, cooking dinner will be fantastic tonight. #
• 21:54 @irishspy it was me. Ari and I got it for you #
• 22:24 @irishspy you're welcome. I'm glad you liked it #

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Wishing a very merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

If you're looking for a last minute gift, I'll be selling Tomorrowland: The Art of Aaron Acevedo pdfs for $5 until the end of the year.

Also, for all you Savage Worlds fans out there... Savage Suzerain is now available.

And finally, all prints in my archive are $10 each (includes shipping). If you order two or more, you get a free Tomorrowland pdf as well.

If you'd like to place an order, you can do so using the button provided below. Please make sure to include your shipping address if you're ordering prints or physical books.

Stay safe for the holidays, I'll see you next year.

Peace.

Ed was dead: to begin with.

Well, perhaps this is something of an exaggeration. As far as I know, he is still out there, somewhere, as full of life as he ever was. However, he has long since vanished into the bowels of Toronto. He told none of his ostensible friends where he moved. He left no new phone number. One week he was here, hosting Friday night games of Mage: The Ascension, and the next week he was gone.

Let us start again...

It's Christmas Eve. Time to trot out the classics! I wrote that eight years ago.

One of my resolutions for the New Year will be to provide more textual content for this journally thing. In the mean time...

PHOTOS!

kores_rabbit and commanderteddog had a sleepover at the Mousehold on Tuesday night. We stayed up to watch Strange Days. commanderteddog returned to Toronto on the morn, but kores_rabbit stayed around for the day. We took the kids to see Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel at the Movie Palace. It was about as good as one migh expect.




Last night was commanderteddog's Great Migration and Sushifest. Her office is closing, so we (momentrabbit, seattlemouse, kores_rabbit and I) infiltrated the empty corridors of the Toronto Star building and removed her desk, chair, computer and other bits she'll have for working at home.






Teddog later took us out all to sushi, where we were joined by sassy_fae, catsarah, and j0no.


This morning was Christmas Eve Brunch at my sister-in-law's place, which was quite laid back with plenty of food. Erin's dad was rather touched by a customized photo album her little sister made for him.

Tonight we have the carol sing, buffet dinner at my mom's, and then home to get the girls to bed, stockings stuffed, and video games set up...

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• 14:06 I've spent the last few hours at the vet. Our 17 year old cat is blind. We just foun out. No one had any idea. #
• 20:08 @jenniferbrozek While I was baking, you were writing. :) #
• 20:08 @irishspy They are very good -- Pine Nut Cookies. They have ground fenel in them as well. Do you want the recipe? #
• 20:09 @irishspy Yeah. She has the house memorized, and that is why we did not know. She walks atound as if nothing is wrong #
• 20:09 @nogoth My cat is a ninja. #
• 20:14 @adamjury depends what the tone of the game is and genre. #
• 20:16 Listening to Byakkoya by Susumu Hirasawa #

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This time for sassy_fae and jack_jackalope's birthday at catsarah's last night:

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• 09:39 Baking today. House smells awesome #
• 09:40 Chocolate-filled hazelnut cookies
  
  yfrog.com/4fl3mj #
• 10:55 Caramel pecan cookies
  
  yfrog.com/339nrsj #
• 11:35 @Nikchick I am fighting the urge to eat them. Next up pine nut cookies #
• 12:04 @jasonlblair I hated the issues I read. I bowed out at #2. #
• 12:19 Pine nut cookies
  
  yfrog.com/6met1jj #

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Another comic adaptation hits the big screen... not the pansy Marvel type though so if you don't like foul language and violence then I wouldn't click on the link to watch the trailer :p

Last night was the first night since last Thursday I didn't attend or host a party. Tonight is sassy_fae's birthday party, tomorrow is commanderteddog's Office Move/Sushifest, and thence into the interminable winter's night of nog, chocolate, meatball buffets, shortbread and overcaffeination that ends sometime in early 2010.


I have photos below the cut of the various events. For those who don't care, have a picture of a sleepy squirrel that I snapped this morning at Gage Park.


Oh, hi!

( Photos of humans! )


And now, back to the squirrels!

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• 06:56 I am off this week. I am also damn happy. #
• 06:56 Last night, Ariana and I saw the Adam's Family Musical. Ariana did not like it, I loved it. What does she know? :) #

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My mother sent me some old photos! This one is my dad, me, and my older sister. My guess is that this was taken around 1978, when we lived in Quebec.

I still have that hat my dad's wearing. Also, it occurs to me he's the same age in that photo that I am now.

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• 07:56 Today Ariana and I go so the musical The Adams Family. I cannot wait. #
• 09:32 There are days like today that you question your creativity. I have just trashed three days of writing because in a word: it sucks. #
• 12:08 @Bedrockgames yeah. This us why I'm glad all first drafts are long hand #

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December 17th, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Savage Mojo partners with Cubicle 7

We’re delighted to announce that Savage Mojo is joining forces with Cubicle 7 to deliver a range of roleplay material in print.

“Our traditional strength has been in the PDF market,” said Martin Klimes, the head of Savage Mojo, “and we plan to continue offering high art downloads for the convenience of gamers everywhere. Now, though, we can move beyond the occasional print-on-demand offering to develop a full range of products in game stores.”

The initial roll-out in the first half of 2010 will see the following RPG game books going to print, each one an addition to our acclaimed Suzerain game universe.

Savage Suzerain, our core setting book for the multi-award winning Savage Worlds system (192 pages). We’ll be following this book with six setting/campaign books, each hard bound and full color throughout:

Dogs of Hades, 160 pages of Spartans in Space. Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ meets ‘300’. Admit you’re intrigued.

Shanghai Vampocalypse, a cyberpunk setting and campaign for demigod characters where one vampire is a monster… but eight million are an apocalypse!

Noir Knights, a setting and campaign in the Great Depression of the 1930s, where gumshoes and government agents investigate the paranormal and the truth is out there.

Caladon Falls, the first part of the War of the Wild series in the fantasy world of Relic, and a gritty look at what it’s really like to be inside a war in a fantasy setting.

Covert Ops, where it’s 1998 and there are secret agents and Secret Agents. Answering the question, “What would Tom Clancy do with his elite special forces troops if there were werewolves and wizards to hunt?”

Halcyon 6, a far future aboard the most exciting exploration fleet to ever leave known space… right until everything goes wrong, about ten seconds through the Archon Gate.

Additionally, we’re delighted to announce the development of our first special edition: Celestium Empires, a self contained swashbuckling world for our own Mojo Rules! game system, planned as two 256 page full-color volumes, including all the rules you need to play politics among the courts of the New World empires, cross swords with pirates in the Setward Isles, or head out to the wild frontier… and it’s very wild indeed.


FURTHER INFORMATION

Savage Mojo was formed under the name ‘Talisman Studios’ in 2003 as an art and design studio to the adventure games industry, the brainchild of master artists Jason Engle and Aaron Acevedo. The studio is an Origins Award Winner (for Deadlands Reloaded), and has worked on dozens of products. In May 2007 the company stepped up a gear, becoming a publisher in its own right, starting with its Gamescapes line of game accessories and building up to the launch of Suzerain. 2008 saw the company work on more than a hundred high art gaming products, with Suzerain being Origins Award semi-finalists. 2009 expanded the range of books and game accessories further and brought products to print for the first time. 2010 will see Savage Mojo in game shops everywhere through a partnership with Cubicle 7.

Suzerain is a multi-genre, multi-world game universe, Origins Award nominated in 2008. Ron Blessing of The Game’s The Thing (www.thegamesthething.com) had this to say about it, “I can't wait to spend time in this playground. As a whole it’s awesome. Suzerain can be as simple or detailed as the players and GM want. The art is absolutely gorgeous. Hopefully it's obvious I'm pretty high on this product. Wow. Just wow.”


For contact on this or any Savage Mojo topic, contact Savage Mojo at:

Website: www.savagemojo.com
Email: hello [at sign] savagemojo.com

Suzerain is an Origins Award Nominee from the Talisman Studios design house (who brought you Shaintar and Gamescapes, and are Origins Award winners for Deadlands Reloaded). This edition of Suzerain is written for the Savage Worlds rule system (SW:EX rulebook required), expanding the core rules in a number of key ways – a new approach to races is just the beginning.

Suzerain takes characters from one world to another or even to another time. History and fantasy; past, present and future – they are all your playground now. Your gaming group just became...

...a pantheon in the making.

Inside the covers you’ll find:

* All the universe background you’ll need to run games in any time, any place.
* Over 50 new Edges, Hindrances and Powers.
* Stats for over 100 new NPCs and monsters to use as allies and adversaries.
* A vastly expanded system for characters once they hit Heroic rank, with plenty of emphasis on the Legendary experience, and introducing a whole new rank – Demigod.
* 30 scenarios including a campaign spanning the three main eras of a character’s development – Novice, Heroic and Demigod.

Where most Savage Worlds settings finish their campaigns, Suzerain is just getting started. With Suzerain a Novice character can expect to battle his way up to being a true Hero of the universe, to meet deities, and finally to become a god himself!

Product Contains: A 196 page full color, hi-resolution PDF. It is a large download file and art intensive. Also included for the same price is a print friendly version.

Available from: Savage Mojo Shop, RPGNOW, DriveThruRPG, and Paizo, for your convenience.

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• 16:35 Snow all over the place. #
• 16:36 Also today showed me why I love Half Price Books. I found, and bought a Mason Bible. #
• 16:36 Yes, a Mason Bible. #

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Poll #1501189
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Who would you start this weekend?

All hail the Hosts with the Most, thebitterguy and his missus, senexmacdonald!

More pics tomorrow, I'm sure. Now... bed!

• 21:36 Savage Suzerain is finally finished, I just uploaded the files to our server. Woot! #

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It's been an incredibly busy couple of days. Thursday, I drove into Toronto to visit with kores_rabbit. She showed me Tenacious D episodes! Later, we hooked up with commanderteddog for an evening of fish and chips and MST3K.


Teddog brought us to "The Olde Yorke," the best fish and chip place I've been to in ages, despite the silly olde timey name. I helpfully smashed her camera and threw it into pocket dimension.

We then ventured to the Mystery Loblaw's and loaded up on comestibles for the evening. We watched a Robot Chicken Star Wars DVD ("Gentlemen! Good manners are their own reward!"), and Teddog received a phone call from mbehemoth, who was in the neighbourhood with his wife for her birthday dinner.


Teddog invited them over, and shortly after we were also joined by kores_rabbit's husband, Jonathan. We all watched the MST3K version of Santa Claus.


kores_rabbit making an extremely obscure MST3K joke, and it's not "I'm your biggest fan."

I finally got home after midnight, and rose early to get velvetpage and the girls to their respective "last day of school" events. I think I was in the house for all of 45 minutes between 8 AM and 4 PM. Claire and I visited Elizabeth at school for her class party. The evening held Claire's Christmas recital, which took place at my old high school, and ruiskafleck's birthday party...

( When Delta's hardy boys fall into line... )

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• 07:50 Good morning one and all. #
• 19:20 And now I am off until December 28. #

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