This is the first purely creative writing I’ve done all year, and even though I don’t even know if it’ll be published, it feels so good to be writing, to not be hung up on making a perfect first draft, or to have my creative impulses drowned out by the Internal Critic. I’m writing. I’m creating. I’m telling a story! I’m looking into my head and scraping out what I find in there, and it feels really, really good.
The newest Tabletop features a really fun dice game set in the Arkham Horror universe called Elder Sign.
Rest in peace, Neil. Because of your bravery and your courage, an entire species will forever look into the night sky and see not a mystery, but a destination.
So why do I play evil characters? When I was a kid, I played the sensitive, awkward kid full of self doubt who really wanted you to like him*. When I was in my 20s, I kept getting auditions for those roles and never booking them, because it’s just not the type I’m meant to play. When Kim Evey cast me as a douchey agent in Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, and Felicia wrote me into The Guild as douchey Fawkes, things started to turn around. I realized that I’d found my type, and I started looking for those roles.
It turns out that my type is the Villain You Love To Hate, so that’s who I am in The Guild, Leverage, Eureka, and Big Bang Theory.
In place of a proper post about GenCon (which was exhausting but lots of fun), here are a few pictures of awesome things I saw while I was there.
