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Teylen:
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--- Zitat ---Hi everyone, sorry about the long absence but it was unavoidable and for a pretty serious reason. This is not something I wanted to make public, but I've been convinced that I need to come clean with what I consider to be an intensely private matter. To cut to the chase I've been having some serious problems with my health. Any rumors that I had a heart attack are absolutely false, but I'm told it was a rather close thing.

Shortly before Christmas I was hospitalized with because of a “hypertensive emergency” (my blood pressure was 220/140) and I was diagnosed with a type of heart condition I still don't know how to spell. I am so very fortunate that I was monitoring my pressure on a daily basis, or it might have turned out much worse that it did.

They wanted to keep me in the hospital for a week or two but I refused because the internet was just way too slow (yes, pretty stupid) and then I ended up staying entirely off line anyway. My very physically-fit uncle died of a similar condition last year so it was a very intense and existentially frightening wake-up call. The doctors I saw later got me new mediation, put me in rehabilitation and made me promise to avoid anything that might add stress to my life, including the web. They certainly made clear to me it was only a matter of time if I didn't change my life-style.

So when I got home I transformed my life from top to bottom. I began, and have maintained, a low calorie and super low-salt and low-fat diet and I have lost close to 25 pounds so far. I've just gotten back from a full check-up and things are looking much better than I expected. I am feeling great. My blood pressure, with the help of yet another new medication, is now down to an a shockingly low l110/70. I am hoping to be at my former fighting weight by my birthday in August, as well as completely off medication.

At the beginning of the process I was completely off my game, I threw my back, was sleeping a lot, getting sick, and was lethargic and depressed. I don't mind telling you it was very tough - real change is very, very difficult whatever the different varieties of TV faith healers like to tell you.

To be honest I went into a total panic mode, I thought I might die. It was a strange feeling, I've been in war zones and that kind of danger never really phased me that much, I wasn’t reckless just peculiarly unperturbed – however THIS wasn't an exciting experience, it was miserable and tedious. It was clear however that I had to turn myself into someone else. I had to completely change my personality, for the sake of my kids if not myself. I had to let myself be scared, fear being the most powerful motivator in the world.

So now I’m a new man, no more wine at dinner or after-dinner Scotch, no more French fries or fried anything, no more lattes or beer or eating out for that matter... Now I actually stand at my desk all day, instead of sitting on the stool 80% of the time.

Funny thing is, turning things around was really hard thing to do, but then suddenly it just became easy. SInce I’m not really a social person without food and booze, it’ been tough to maintain any sort of social life, on or offline, but I'm working on it. (Btw, don't worry, once the weight is off and my pressure stablized I will still be drinking at conventions, just not in excess).

For those who are interested I used techniques I call the Roleplaying Diet (or alternatively the Method Acting diet) which is a total immersion, trained revulsion/attraction, be the person you want to be, self-programing program. I worked for me with variety of things, so I think it as work with pretty much anything. If you are interested or need help with something in particular, just let me know.

Yesterday I made popcorn for the first time and added one tiny dash of salt, but when I tasted it I spit it out, I am so unused to salt that it tasted terrible to me. Pretty cool. I'm into this.

Now that I am post checkup, post lethargy, and most importantly back from the States and post Mr. Mom (I was a primary caregiver since my wife had to stay at home to run the country), I am back on track with work. Which for us here means I AM ZOMBIE.

I was very sad and depressed about the tepid response to my call for a round of playtesting on IAZ. I only got ONE playtest report, one, and that really sent me for a loop, it was so very depressing.

Here's the thing, I can't really continue with the game design without feedback... the kind feedback you only get from Blind testing (in other words playtesting where I am not there running the game and making it work through strength of will.) I do understand, its hard to get your group excited about playing a game with mostly blank cards, but... Well, Mark has finished half the cards, so it should be a lot easier now. Moreover, I am going to write a begining scenario, so its totally a breeze to run your first game.

I am going to spend a week on the setting materials now and meanwhile I'm going to figure out how to "encourage" people to playtest. We are thinking of having a contest where we offer the top 10 playtest reports (in terms of length and insight) free cards, as in, get your face on one. However I am not sure how everyone would feel about that, so I want to check in with everyone about it.

In terms of the new D20 system, I played it using the fantasy version with my kids and my nieces and nephews (ages 6-14) over Xmas and it works really well. It's a very smooth and unique system, all the referencing of books and rules that normally goes on... puff, vanished. Its all on the cards.

However, fantasy ain't horror and we need to playtest I AM ZOMBIE for me to be able to do the rewrite of the setting materials and send it to Mark to be laid out. This HAS to happen, I refuse to send out a RPG without extensive playtesting.

So, sorry to not be around the last month or so, I really hope you do understand. Moreover, I hope we can really being an intense discussion about the game and how to perfect it, starting now.

yours,

Mark
--- Ende Zitat ---
Geht wohl weiter mit IAZ. Wenn die Playtester weiter testen. Sonst halt eher nicht.
Was mich daneben irritiert. Wieso schreibt er von sich in der dritten Person?
(Das ganze stammt wohl aus der fB Gruppe)

Slayn:
Weil das ganze wirkt, als wäre es ein Copy&Paste Mix aus mehreren verschiedenen Einträgen.
Aber ich finde die Sache mit den Playtestern immer noch abgedreht. Von all den Leuten, die sich hier beteiligt haben soll keiner Bock zum Playtesting gehabt oder und nur ein einziger Report rüber gekommen sein? Glaube ich irgendwie nicht.

La Cipolla:
Find ich auch heavy. Ich meine, gut, ernsthafte Playtester sind teilweise schwer zu finden, aber der Mann hat doch Fanboys und -girls en masse. Seltsam irgendwie.

Teylen:
Es ist auch interessant wie ein einziger Playtest ihm sagt das die ganzen Leute die unillustrierten Karten nicht nutzen.
Naja und wie er in der Zeit ohne Internet, ohne sozial Kontakte ein d20-Karten Fantasy System zusammenbrachte.

Wisdom-of-Wombats:
Okay, das relativiert das ganze etwas. Aber warum nur auf dem Fratzenbuch und nicht bei Kickstarter?!?

Und warum erzählt er seine ganze Krankengeschichte, wenn er das eigentlich nicht will? Ein kurzes: "Hey Leute, ich bin knapp an einem Herzinfarkt vorbei geschrappt." Hätte doch auch ausgereicht?

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