It's getting tricky to update this, my livejournal AND my website at once. Until I create a suparleet PHP script to auto-update all three at once, Slashdot Journal is now here.

Call of Cthulu is the weirdest, most banal roleplaying game ever. I doubt that even my webmaster-style creativity could cope with creating a few hours of the stuff, let alone an entire campaign. It seems more like Andy's style of play - his D&D campaign is the one where, for three hours, we regularly met victims of serial-murdering cultists, all with their throats slit and their hearts removed. No, I think I'll stick to Dungeons and Dragons for the time being.

Someone explain to me how a soldier, a police detective, an african-american priest and a college professor manage to quit their jobs without notice and join up to seek out paranormal activity. More to the point, someone explain why. Some of them are earning maybe $30,000 a year, and they immediately drop everything to buy guns and go looking after shit that fucks with their minds and sends them screaming in insanity.

If you're going to make a roleplaying game based in modern day, why not make it Stargate-esque alien encounters, government conspiracies or some alternate-universe setting? Instead, lets have crazy, random shit happening that doesn't make any sense! Characters in Call of Cthulu hallucinate without reason, and start to go insane. Reels of a movie which previously sent two of our group completely nuts, now burst into flames and start attacking filmgoers at random. My character, an African-American televangelist, takes out a holy baseball bat named Excalibat and starts laying the smack on the film reel.

You'll forgive me if I stick with good old D&D for the time being.

PHPing just isn't PHPing without cool, refreshing Coca-Cola.

* JD|PHPing sighs, and goes back to PHPing

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