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Daniel

we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed

About Me

I love coffee's smell but hate its taste.

My Interests

Cara Aileen; writing, reading, vegetarian and vegan cooking, music, gaming, running, soccer, ultimate

I'd like to meet:

I hope Terry Gross interviews me one day.

Music:

The Appleseed Cast, Coheed and Cambria, Death Cab For Cutie, Face to Face, Isis, Low, Mastodon, Modest Mouse, Pelican, Raise the Red Lantern

Movies:

The Addiction, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, The Empire Strikes Back, Fight Club, Raising Arizona, The Sacrifice, Throne of Blood, Voices of a Distant Star

Television:

[adult swim], Lost

Books:

Lloyd Alexander, Douglas Coupland, Mark Danielewski, Gilles Deleuze, Neil Gaiman, Klaus Theweleit, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev

My Blog

[D&D] Creating Setting

Yesterday, Luke Crane made a great post in a nerdNYC thread regarding how to deal with difficult requests made by players:I'm going to use Burning Wheel as my example system here because I specificall...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:46:00 PST

Dreamation 2007, part two (of two)

Friday at midnight I was able to participate in a playtest of Ben Lehman's forthcoming RPG, Bliss Stage.  I have been excited about this game ever since I stumbled across this post in his blog, a...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 07 May 2007 11:40:00 PST

Dreamation 2007, part one (of two)

This past weekend I attended Dreamation 2007, my first-ever gaming convention.  I've wanted to write about it all week, so this post may be shorter or less-complete than intended, just to get thi...
Posted by Daniel on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:03:00 PST

[D&D] Player Investment

I currently play in three different D&D campaigns.  Thankfully, they each have rather erratic schedules, so at best I only ever have to attend two in a given week.  More often it's one o...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:03:00 PST

NaNoWriMo

I've decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month.  Mostly, I got sold on their "If not now, then when?" angle.  That, and I found out about it a few days before the official writi...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:31:00 PST

[review] Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords

I wrote a review of Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords back in August.  I'll probably do some more reviews in the coming months, and I plan to link them here when I do.Enjoy.  Feedback ...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:14:00 PST

Adventure Design

Dave Noonan wrote and excellent article about adventure design for the latest Design & Development column.  This series has only improved since its inception.  Along with the piece on p...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:37:00 PST

Developing New Content

Hello all,Thanks for stopping by--we're excited you chose [name of site] for your blog reading. We're really looking forward to developing new content for YOU--our readers--because without YOU, [name ...
Posted by Daniel on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:27:00 PST