Genki Life Magazine
Blog Site Update 
Thursday, May 8, 2008, 17:25 - Announcements
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Welcome to Version 2 of out blog site. This site is more interactive than the previous "static" version. Visitors could now post comments, view the calendar,sort by category, do searches and view the archives. Also new are links to other web pages we deem interesting (but have to affiliation to).
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THE FIVE STAR STORIES ROLE-PLAYING GAME 
Monday, May 5, 2008, 16:39 - Announcements
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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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