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Currently at Linux Users of Victoria about to deliver my presentation on Being An Acrobat: Linux and PDFs, mostly inspired by having to work with them rather than any great love for the format and standard. Knowing how to create, edit, manipulate, extract, search etc, such documents is, of course, absolutely essential in the contemporary environment, often encouraged claims that they are more secure. It's not true of course, and indeed in many ways they are one of the worst file formats. But they have a degree of ubiquity, and knowing how to work with them is the purpose of the presentation.
Thursday night we had a great session of Exalted China, with the mighty characters having defeated a bandit attack the session previous, and then followed on with actually making their way to the tomb objective of their story, meeting a sapient giant salamander on the way. There was a hilarious moment when one of the PCs was convinced (courtesy of a botched roll) that the tomb was cursed and the best character to fix this failed to do so. A nice example of an emergent narrative effectively.
Apart from that the rush to prepare for the 2018 European trip is beginning to take hold. We leave later this week, first to Frankfurt, then to Heidelburg, Stuttgart, north to Luxembourg, then Brussels, Ghent, The Hague, Amsterdam, Enschede, Oldenburg, Berlin, and then back to Frankfurt. There are at least three conferences that I want to attend on the way, and a good number of friends that I will make the effort to catch up - including some Isocracy people whom I have known for years but never met in person.
Thursday night we had a great session of Exalted China, with the mighty characters having defeated a bandit attack the session previous, and then followed on with actually making their way to the tomb objective of their story, meeting a sapient giant salamander on the way. There was a hilarious moment when one of the PCs was convinced (courtesy of a botched roll) that the tomb was cursed and the best character to fix this failed to do so. A nice example of an emergent narrative effectively.
Apart from that the rush to prepare for the 2018 European trip is beginning to take hold. We leave later this week, first to Frankfurt, then to Heidelburg, Stuttgart, north to Luxembourg, then Brussels, Ghent, The Hague, Amsterdam, Enschede, Oldenburg, Berlin, and then back to Frankfurt. There are at least three conferences that I want to attend on the way, and a good number of friends that I will make the effort to catch up - including some Isocracy people whom I have known for years but never met in person.
