A while ago I was told by good ol' Dr. TOC (Grand Master of the Chill Webseance ring) that OtherWorlds Creations is planning to publish a new edition of Chill. Probably old news for most of you :-P Here's what their website said back in August:
As we announced at GenCon, OWC is now the new home for the classic horror RPG, CHILL. Going back over 15 years, CHILL was first published by Pacesetter Games, with the 2nd edition being done by Mayfair Games. Now OWC picks up the reins and has slated CHILL for a Summer 2003 release. This new version of CHILL will inlcude an updated timeline, a streamlined system (still compatible with the Mayfair Edition), d20 conversion notes, and best of all, the graphic design and layout will be done by George Vasilakos (of Eden Studios), the genius behind the gorgeous Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lord of the Rings games just released at GenCon. The new home of CHILL will be http://www.chillrpg.com, which should be up and running by the end of the week. You can also join the official CHILL Yahoo Groups community by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/owcchillrpg/.
Izzat cool or what? Great news, since I gave up on my plans of using GURPS for Chill, and was exploring the possibility of using d20 Modern instead (which I ordered today). Since the new Chill will come with d20 conversion notes, it will be less painful than I thought. However, I won't get to use it with my veteran gaming group since I plan to leave the island and start studying in Miami next April. Oh well, I guess I can buy the new Chill and look at the pretty pictures then anyway... :-/
posted by Edwin Astacio 2:37 AM
Thanks to HorrorSeek's service, The Limen is again out of torpor. I wish I've known about them before :-P
Well, I'll try to make a real update sometime in December.
posted by Edwin Astacio 12:14 AM
Finally, The Limen splashpage is fixed... now you can see it hopefully. Remember it needs JavaScript enabled on your browser...
posted by Edwin Astacio 1:16 AM
Those of you using the http://thelimen.ipfox.com address to reach my site:It turns out that my Limen pages were misbehaving pretty badly in Netscape because I selected the "url masking" option with the IPfox redirection service. URL masking is a neat trick where only the IPfox URL shows up instead of the mile-long Brinkster URL no matter where you went on the site. It looked perfect in IE, but Netscape had a definite case of chronic acid reflux, causing frames kept loading up like crazy. This effect, however, gave me an idea of why it was happening.
You see, most, if not all of my pages have JavaScript lines that cause the page to look for its frameset, that is, if you happened to find a "naked" page on the web it would immediately look for its parent frameset, and load it. It also had a fail-safe script that would allow the pages to "break feee" if they were encased in someone else's frames. The problem was, I didn't consider that IPfox URL masking consists of invisibly "framing" a website, which allows it to mask its real URL and preserve IPfox's URL on the address bar. With Explorer, there was no problem; with Netscape, however, it made my scripts go wild: since my frames were inside IPfox's frame, they kept re-spawning themselves, trying to "escape" the frame.
Bottomline is: I removed the URL masking option from the IPfox URL.... SO, you can now use http://thelimen.ipfox.com with Netscape safely... or simply bookmark the longer http://www24.brinkster.com/thelimen/index.htm
Netscape STILL has problems with the splash page., but I'll fix that later...
posted by Edwin Astacio 12:32 AM
Well, I finally moved my site from DomainDLX to Brinkster... as if anyone would notice, heh...No more @#$% pop-ups ruining my pages...
I'll try to make some real updates next week...
posted by Edwin Astacio 1:29 AM
Testing new site
posted by Edwin Astacio 12:26 AM
Hey, it seems that DomainDLX's pop-up menus are finally working on the site (particularly when the Chiliad pages are loaded). I wouldn't have any problem with that (after all, the web space is free), except that it seems they are somehow screwing with my pages (sometimes they do not show up, at the very least) or, worse, sometimes I get a popup per loaded frame, which can get annoying.It seems the time to move to another hosting service has arrived... don't be surprised if you see yet another redirection page here soon...
posted by Edwin Astacio 11:34 PM
Well, the first week in my new job has come and gone. Although I still feel stupid because of all the things I haven't grasped yet, I definitely feel I'm doing something I like for the first time in years. It's 50 hours of work per week and I like the environment and what I do so much that I barely notice the time.Anyway, once I'm settled in my new routine I'll add more content to the site. *sigh*
Ah, according to Paula Guran's "Daughter of Dark Echo" newsletter, the latest edition of THE SPOOK has been posted. Issue #2 features fiction from Dominick Cancilla, Jack Ketchum, Joyce Carol Oates and Norman Partridge; an answer to "What do women want in horror?" as well as Ramsey Campbell's column, Ric Meyers on women in martial arts films, an interview with Poppy Z. Brite and much more...
Also in "Daughter of Dark Echo," Paula Guran mentioned that the expensive ($200/$400), deluxe Stealth Press editions of Clive Barker's The Books of Blood will feature—hold on to your pants here— a signed photo of (yes, this is for real, folks) a full frontal nude photo of the author. What's next? A Weaveworld edition with the author being done doggie style on the cover? Pardon my tasteless, pornographic crudity, but I'm kind of PO'd with this, it's kind of the straw that broke my camel's back... Barker was one of my favorite horror authors... Was. If I still were with my ex-GF she would probably leave me again for saying that since she worshipped the guy. It's complicated, I better let this pass...
posted by Edwin Astacio 12:23 AM
Well, I got a job at long last, which means that my updates will be less frequent than before... I won't abandon the site, though.
posted by Edwin Astacio 12:46 PM
