We do this for love, baby!

Larry Levy waffles about the Designer of the Year here. I look forward to his political post where he endorses Clinton, McCain, Obama and "That weird one."

I haven't forgotten the Master Solvers post, but I'm a) waiting for it to die down and b) wishing for a one-armed economist. As for doing more, well, send me the problems and I'll post them. (I'll watch for interesting draws ... I could do mid-games, but that means a lot of typing to get the setup).

Another idea I'd considered is running an annotated PBEM. If you want to play, shoot me an email, but you have to write up your reasoning with your plays. I'm not convinced I want to do this yet, as my wife is already giving me strange looks.

Update: As to how the PBEM would work (as there have been questions). I'd shuffle a deck (make an excel spreadsheet of the deck, assign each card a random number and then sort the card based on those). I'd also have to create a file for the "open" position (everything except hands) and email it out seperately. Obviously commentary would only be revealed after the game (or perhaps a few turns delay would suffice). Ideally most players would send in their role selection, I'd send out the update (along with any explore cards) and then they'd send back builds/consume/produce to minimize traffic. Toward the mid-end game players are probably more likely to want to see each build before continuing.

I'll be travelling for a few days.

But the hotel is different than last years. I don't remember it having a computer to use (and I'm not taking a laptop). So I have no idea if I'll be posting.

So I leave you with your intermission entertainment. And yes, that was just posted recently.

Just like movies go to cable first. Only premium content here!

Tom will post as the mood strikes. I'm not going on hiatus, we have no schedule. (Writing on a schedule smells like work).

Enjoy!

And yes, I did play games tonight, but I'll write about that later.

Update: The urge to make significant editorial changes won. I haven't altered any meanings (I hope), but I did clean up what struck me as poor writing.