{"id":567,"date":"2008-06-30T07:14:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T11:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2008-06-13T14:15:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T18:15:47","slug":"my-life-with-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"My Life with Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half Meme Press creates odd little role-playing games with names like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfmeme.com\/evil.html\">Acts of Evil<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfmeme.com\/bacchanal.html\">Bacchanal<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfmeme.com\/death.html\">The Valedictorian&#8217;s Death<\/a>.  Their most recent is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfmeme.com\/master.html\">My Life with Master<\/a>, in which you play the minion of, um, a master.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine a gothic countryside burg, like the quite Bavarian steppes where Victor Frankenstein might have lived, or the brambly swamps of Dracula&#8217;s castle. We&#8217;re talking Eastern Europe before communism, when science was just kissing the brittle lips of superstition and stable poverty. The game begins by the group collectively designing a &#8220;Master&#8221;, the otherworldly antagonist who dwells in some archetypal castle or haunted house or ancient catacomb. This master has some kind of M.O. &#8211; discovering the secret of eternal life, rejuvenation, astral projection, or maybe just a nice skin suit, get creative. Then the players design their characters, minions of this master, complete with a tragic flaw and constrained power. Then the real game begins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like the idea of a game that lets me unleash my inner psychopath.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Play This Thing&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/playthisthing.com\/my-life-master\">review<\/a> of the game.  You can buy it in downloadable or dead-tree form at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfmeme.com\/index.html\">Half Meme Press site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half Meme Press creates odd little role-playing games with names like Acts of Evil, Bacchanal, and The Valedictorian&#8217;s Death. Their most recent is My Life with Master, in which you play the minion of, um, a master. Imagine a gothic countryside burg, like the quite Bavarian steppes where Victor Frankenstein might have lived, or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}