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THE FIVE STAR STORIES ROLE-PLAYING GAME 
Monday, May 5, 2008, 16:39 - Announcements
Posted by Administrator

After receiving requests from the last decade, I finally updated this RPG site for a more modern feel. Aside from minor formatting problems, I feel that it’s done and completely playable. Sure it’s not polished like many of the commercial RPGs out there, but that’s to be expected from a homebrew game system. At least, in the early development of this RPG, a group of friends and I play-tested this RPG. It all worked out fine.

I originally started writing this game in the late 80s and early 90s. It was a time when paper and pencil RPGs were the norm. It’s unfortunate that with the advent of card and computer RPG games, the pen and pencil games went to a rapid decline as well as the ability for players to use their imaginations in games. This was the basis of a role-playing game...to use your imagination to “play” the role of your character. In my opinion, todays computer RPG games don’t deserve to be called RPGs. You don’t play a role our use your imagination, but to control a pre-made character in a series of events...always linear. Therefore a more appropriate term for this genre of games should be called “simulated adventure games.”

But anyway, I want to thank all the people around the world that tried to keep this RPG alive and requested me to post it once again. I dedicate this RPG to all of you hard-core role-playing gamers. I will my very best to add more material to game in the future. Unlike the times when I originally wrote this game, I don’t have time dedicated to upkeep this RPG. As with us “old-time gamers,” we all have real jobs, families, businesses to run, etc. And most of us play RPGs very little nowadays. But to a new generation of real RPG gamers, keep the genre alive.
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AX MEMORIAL PAGE UPDATE 
Friday, March 14, 2008, 16:30 - Announcements
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After two and a half weeks of work of converting and capturing videos, I finally added my home videos to “My Anime Expo Memorial Page.” These are “edited” videos that me and various friends took from Anime Expo 1994 to Anime Expo 2007 with my camcorder. There are some years where I didn’t take any videos because of camcorder problems or just plain laziness. Most of these video are 45 minutes to about 3 hours long. So downloading would be a bitch of you don’t have broadband.

I’ve also added videos to the “Other Conventions” pages. Check’em out too.

For anyone viewing these videos in front of young children, I tried to makes these Rated G. But it’s almost impossible. So they’re more like PG13. There is some strong language, some voyeurism, some fan service and some sexual euphemisms used. So if you don’t want your young children watching them, DON’T let them! Be a responsible parent. There’s not too many of those anymore. You otaku parents watch enough anime to know better.

All the videos are all Apple Quicktime™ movies set to low bandwidth 11 FPS. Why Quicktime™? Because Wintel formats are proprietary, meaning only Windows™ machines could play them. You know, like the selfish bully on the block that wants you to use their stuff and not others. Quicktime™ is available for FREE download for all systems (OSX, Windows and Linux) at apple.com. So what’s better? You decide...... They are also downloadable, only if you have the full version of Quicktime™. Or if you could find another way on your own.
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