Chatting to mirabehn via email, I was reminded about the freeform roleplaying games I & friends (including, on separate occasions, hungrypixel and owlfish) used to run at York. And looking over my archive, I've still got almost all the data for several of them.

They'd still need quite a bit of fine-tuning and updating, but would be playable and indeed expandable.

Brief description: one afternoon/evening, one large room and (preferably) several smaller ones, 20+ people.

I have incomplete archives for one with vampires in, one set at an office Christmas party, one fairytale kingdom (the most complete - though it was done a second time, and I don't have the version used then), one generic fantasy, and one James Bond spoof.

I'm quite taken with the idea of running something based on one of these, or indeed an entirely new one. I'm not about to do it all on my own, though - mostly for logistical reasons, since these things get complicated.

Anyone else interested? Useful things people could bring to the table would mostly be enthusiasm, writing ability, and the availability of large spaces in or at least near London.

Tags: games, roleplaying

As pointed to by nou - an interesting mind exercise. Take eight objects, and divide them into two categories, each with four items in, on any basis you like. Using http://kevan.org/category.cgi for the word list helps, that randomly generates eight for you. It also lets you pick a seed number, guaranteeing that we all get the same word list to compare efforts - I've chosen 4242, and I suggest you go there and put that in, and play with the lists a couple of times (either in your head or with the little javascript whatsit they give you) before you open this
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Tags: distractions, games