Author: John Wick


  • Okay, so I’m going dancing tonight. I’ve put it off long enough. Must engage in the ritualistic pounding of feet, spinning of head, dizzyness of the otherworld as I summon the ghosts of my ancestors. I’ll be going to Xianvox’s gig tonight. You can read about it here: . Here’s the catch. I hate dancing…

  • I step in, fetching change out of my pocket for the dreaded Coke machine. The Celtic Queen stands at a table, cutting an apple. “Hi John!” she says. “Would like some apple?” “Sure,” I say and snag piece. Munch, munch. I fetch the Coke and finish off my piece of the apple. “Hey, wait a…

  • Critical Thoughts

    Last time we got together for the Neopets d20 Thieves game, one of the players asked me, “John, how does L5R work?” So, I pulled up a character sheet .pdf and we went through the system, step-by-step. Took us all of five minutes. At the end of that five minutes, they understood how to do…

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  • I Miss the Sea Dogs

    Nautical Wheelers who call themselves sailors Play fiddle tunes under the stars Petticoats rustle, workin’ shoes scuffle Shuffle on down to the bar Where the jukebox is blastin’ and the liquor is flowin’ An occasional bottle of wine That’s ’cause everyone here is just more than contented To be livin’ and dyin’ in three-quarter time…

  • OMG

    All right. I’m a loudmouth. I know this. I say things I regret later. Everybody knows this. But… I just… Can’t… Help… Go read this: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71476 And then, explain to me why the “production manager” of a company goes on one of the most popular gaming forums and embarrasses himself like this. He can’t spell.…

  • My Top Ten

    said, “I need a John Wick reading list!” Okay, here ya go. This list in no way infers quality. It’s mearly a list of books I enjoy to read… over and over again. For very different reasons. The books are in no particular order — just the order that I thought of them. From Hell…

  • Kakita Yaoru was a brilliant courtier and expert duelist. Truly, he was a Crane’s Crane. His ability to maneuver political disaster into political advantage was legendary in the courts. Despite his skills, Yaoru was cursed by a single tragic flaw: women wearing the Scorpion mon. Yaoru’s skills of diplomacy and etiquette were useless against Scorpion…