Katrina Allis was nominated for Playing at Kapcon, October 2008:
Playing Mina Hacker,
As the grief-stricken widow I thought she was going to break down in tears right there. Probably a good thing I didn't tell her Van Helsing killed Jonathan
in "Rule Brittania (LARP)"
Famed author and futurist Arthur C Clarke has been an inspiration to many in the world of science fiction. His imaginative works have driven both the genre, and real-world science to new heights. His passing at age 90 leaves many of us both grieving his absence and grateful for the contributions he made. Science fiction games of all kinds are greater today for having been able to stand on his shoulders.
Goodbye Arthur. If you meet Douglas Adams up there, please thank him for all the fish.
Gary Gygax, whom many recognise as the "Father of D&D", has passed away at the age of 69. His influence on table-top roleplaying worldwide has arguably been incalculable, and he will be sorely missed. Members of the roleplaying industry from Wizards of the Coast to Blizzard (World of Warcraft), have all paid their respects to Gary, a veritable icon of the genre.
Gary, we will critically miss you.
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"At a time when Palladium Books’ future has never looked more promising, we have been dealt a crippling blow [...] from which Palladium cannot recover. At least, not without YOUR help." - Kevin Siembieda
Palladium looks to be in serious financial trouble, and Kevin Siembieda (whose name fans of the Palladium systems - Heroes Unlimited, RIFTS, TMNT, Ninjas and Superspies, etc, will no doubt recognise) is asking for help.
See the forum discussion »
NZRaG admins have recently been made aware that some of our users think
the site is too Wellington-centric. In an effort to correct this impression,
we have put up links to gaming clubs from Otago, Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington.
We strongly encourage members who feel that their area of the country is not
fairly represented to get in touch with us and their closest gaming club and spread the
word about NZRaG. Our most effective way to get more people on this site from your
area is by word of mouth - so please help us spread the word, since we can't be everywhere
all the time! :)
Rather than try to get people to help pay for NZRaG in the RPG community through
clubs and societies, I'm going to be running a little experiment! If, instead of
taking hard-earned money out of your hands, I can instead earn back the money going
into hosting by putting up ads by Google, I think everyone would agree this is better :)
So, please click on any of the ads you find interesting - you'll be helping a good cause
(and helping to make the site self-sustaining!)
We're going well - NZRaG by all accounts is a runaway success with the roleplaying and
gaming community, and we're only just getting underway. This is a good thing! Unfortunately,
several websites the gaming community uses regularly, especially wellingtonians, have
recently gone offline. NZRaG is in the process of picking up the pieces and
possibly hosting those sites now. Shortly, these sites will be back online again (though possibly at different
URLs - we'll let you know!), and ready to
keep on rocking for the community!
Hah! We make a very mockery of this "busy" thing...
The blogs are online - and we're taking requests for new ones!
Just pop a message in the forums under "Questions", and
we'll set up a blog for you (or your game/s). It would be helpful
if you registered yourself first - see the Blogs section for details.
We told you we were busy. The forums are online and awaiting
requests to add categories and topics. Pending approval by
RPG Central's users, those with administrator
access to the RPG Central forums will be given similar access
on the new system, and the BB will cut over, possibly keeping the
posts already made on the "new" rpgc forums.
We're busy like little code beavers
writing up the system that will
support article and news submission and moderation. ETA until the site
is fully live is March 2006, but in the meantime there will be
regularly updated content
We have chosen to bite the bullet and use a real hosting provider
rather than the hosting-at-home style approach
used so far on RPG Central. The plan is to provide decent and stable
hosting for a range of RaG related sites, including RPG Central.
Affiliated / Hosted sites will be linked prominently from the front
page.
Presenting: Your Local Gaming Groups!
Otago University Roleplaying Society
The University of Canterbury Gaming Society
Wellington Area Roleplaying Game Society
AMERICA Roleplaying Club (Auckland)
The site's administrators are currently planning to hold a get-together to discuss where the site most needs improvement. As it stands, priorities for site upgrades in the past have included plans for an event calendar, and changes to the wiki to prevent comment spamming. The wiki changes were unable to take place due to vandalism effectively destroying the wiki content, and the calendar is still pending a decision over whether to try to integrate google calendar. The talks should produce some direction and progress on the site. If you have a constructive idea, please mention it on the forums so it can be discussed.
Upcoming event: Chimera, the first annual NZ Live Action Roleplaying convention, aiming to bring together larps and larpers from around the country to roleplay together in a large variety of games for a weekend. It will run on the 22nd-24th of August at Motu Moana Scout Camp in Auckland. Please click the link for more information.
The sites below are not affiliated with NZRaG, but we're ever
so happy to link them :) Send us an email to admin@nzrag.com or message us on the boards to get linked!
(Kapcon is gearing up for next year!)
The forums and blogs
are up and working fine. It's great to see the forums seeing so much use so quickly!
NZRaG would like to bid welcome to the new users - over 120 at last count! (only about 80 users are taken up by the various users whose usernames start with "__" - these are "dummy" users imported from RPG Central in order to import the forum data.
If you run across any difficulties, email william@nzrag.com.
And thanks!