Thinking about implementations of Movable Type has also got me thinking about some general changes to the IMAGinES website itself. Some of the things I'm thinking of doing are:

• Dropping the Rants from main page, as I don't update them particularly often and they're usually more like general articles.
• See whether Movable Type will work as the back-bone to the entire site, so that after laying out the site, I won't have to touch the basic HTML again until I want to renovate. This might allow for the following:
  • Letting the Black Talon players post their own action logs directly to the Black Talon section.
  • Dropping the Yahoo group entirely, although I think the existing e-mail forum is more conducive to community than one based on posting to a site.

Well, since the party, I've been doing very little Tron 2.0. I must confess that it's partly because I haven't got off my duff and organised some with Gav or any of the other interested parties, so I'll have to see about that. Max Payne is turning out to be good fun, even though my recurring sim sickness means I can't play for longer than an hour per sitting. I also have to do some more Shadows of Undrentide with Vickie; we've been horribly slack! It's all this socialising stuff cutting into our game time!

Black Talon Episode 4 is now in the final stages of development, a piece of news that will surely come as some relief to my players. I've sent an e-mail about organising a day.

I'd like to thank everyone in the IMAGinewS group who got back to me with advice on advertising on the page. I've since written to the group who were offering me advertising and told them I wouldn't accept.

There's not been much action on the polling front. How many of you can access that section of the Yahoo! Group?

Champions was good, even though it was just me, Vickie, Rog and Dan. As all the other ingrates had either double-booked or had pathetic excuses like helping their families move, we decided we'd kill everyone else's characters off, which will be doubly-frustrating for Boots, as he's not even created his yet. "Yes, thanks for going to that effort of coming up with your character, especially considering the complexities of the Hero System. Now he's dead, so go and do it all again, won't you?"

Seriously, though, we did have fun, especially Vickie; this was her most involving session so far. In fact, I pretty much sat back and let her and Rog's characters, Nightshade and the Huntsman respectively, do their thing!

As the Champions campaign is drawing to a close, Dan's been soliciting interest in other systems and genres. He's been thinking of doing something anime-flavoured, and in one discussion I had with him last week, he mentioned that he'd played something called Bubblegum Crisis a while ago, and was wondering whether I'd be interested. I allowed for the fact that my Bubblegum Crisis phase did occur a couple of years before we met, and after explaining some of the series premises to Dan (apparently his former GM had neglected to include Genom, the Boomers or even the Knight Sabers in his game), I loaned him the three game books. I got a big kick of showing off my name in one of the Bubblegum Crisis RPG books - actually, now I think about it, it was two of them! Hey, Dan, if you're reading this, check out the Thank Yous in Bubblegum Crisis: Before & After!

I get the feeling he'll probably use the Hero System to actually run the game (if so, I'll try to pick it up at some point soon). I've also warned Dan that if we do play BGC, popular demand will most likely have me creating and playing Slamdance as a character.

While I'm on the general roleplaying front, I've decided to put some of my older RPG product up for sale on eBay. Dan has volunteered to loan me his digital camera, although he has to check with his wife Leslie first, as it is actually her digital camera. Any luck, Dan?