…and goes on to stardom
We interrupt our recent session of not being able to focus on our LJ, in order to bring you a recounting of our recent dream.
In the dream, which took place about 4:00 this morning, I was at a large convention center in Palm Springs, California. It seems that Steve Jackson Games had decided to do a “British Geekery” line of GURPS books and I was one of the many game writers who would be working on them. The two main books were “GURPS Monty Python” and “GURPS Doctor Who”.
The convention center was crowded with both game writers and cast members from the two aforementioned series, plus people from other series, such as Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan from “The Goon Show” and Rowan Atkinson from “Blackadder”.
Bits of the dream that I recall most clearly…
Sitting on a veranda drinking wine with Robin Laws, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tom Baker, while discussing the sad state of sketch comedy on American television.
Asking John Kovalic if I looked as much like a gooby fanboy as he did, then both of us laughing.
Sitting at a writing session with Terry Jones, Michael Palin and a bunch of game writers, trying to come up with a Monty Python dungeon crawl. We were all roaring drunk.
All in all, it was quite a cool and fanboyish dream.
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Who do I have to kill to be in this dream?
You probably were in the dream. Seems like every game designer/writer I know was there. No doubt, you were negotiating some sweet freelancer gig.
Monty Python dungeon crawl? So thirty years ago, Doc. The look on people’s faces when they clue in that the Knights of Ni have gifted the PCs with a +5 Herring of Ent-Slaying is priceless. What? You though the largest tree in the dungeon was an actual tree? For shame… :p
No no…you misinterpreted it. I didn’t mean some sappy assed gamer dungeon crawl laced with stale excerpts from “Holy Grail”. I meant a dungeon crawl actually written with the aid of the Pythons themselves.
My dreams are never this cool. Spit.
Well, they would be if you were from California:)
What a great dream. I wish my dreams were funny like yours.
Well, truth to tell, most of my dreams aren’t funny. Most are just plain weird. Some are positively surrealistic.
And some are just plain old porn:)