Last night, I was rereading my own zine in Alarums and Excursions, the gaming apa edited by Lee Gold. It was about 2 am, which may explain why a comment I made to [livejournal.com profile] brianrogers sparked a thought in me: "So, in the play by email game I'm running, set in a weird high school in my 17-year-old game world, what Hogwarts houses would the PCs be in?"

So, I posted the results [livejournal.com profile] mnemex and I came up with. Two of the players like the idea of a sort of Hogwarts thread of the game, kind of like the Buffy Musical episode. I'm not up for doing this for the Fall semester (which has about a month of game time to go), but if folks really want it, maybe for the Spring semester. mnemex asks if it'll be in or out of continuity.

I suppose I should count myself lucky that they didn't make the same request for the Dragaeran houses, as I posted a few of those.
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From: [personal profile] mylescorcoran


You're setting yourself up for more of these, you know.

Now we'll have to have a Groundhog Day episode, a Mirror Universe episode (S'Kei with a goatee, how fashionable!), a 'everything was just a dream' mundane episode, a gender swap episode (arguably redundant for some of the characters), and an episode where Billy Siegel was right all along and the characters are DC superheroes.

Bring it on!

From: [identity profile] drcpunk.livejournal.com


Okay, here are the ground rules:

No more than one per school year.

We will not do Those Stories, merely use Those Settings. E.g., the Hogwarts houses, but there is no "X person is Harry, Y person is Hermione, and we're doing Prisoner of Azakaban".

I'm overthinking. No one's going to want to do that much work for the joke.
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