"Probably not the Champions guru"

Aaron Allston, a small god of my formative gaming years, has suffered a major heart attack. He had a quadruple-bypass in Dallas last Thursday and is currently in intensive care. He's 48 years old. Mr. Allston has no health insurance.

Allston has written a great many novels, and in the 80s he was a freelance game designer/writer. Most notably for me, he was the first listed author for the Justice Inc. roleplaying game. In fact, he and fellow authors Steve Peterson and Michael Stackpole, are featured on the cover of the game sourcebook.


This is a detail from the cover. Allston is the man in the centre of the picture, with the curly hair and beard. I would not be lying if I told you that, in the late 80s, my friends Bill and Dan and I spent hours identifying the characters on the cover. And also wondering about the identities and fabulous lives of the three men in t-shirts. Clearly, they were game writers, and involved with Champions as well as Justice Inc., and therefore the luckiest men in the universe.

Allston is 48.

Blood donors are being solicited, for those of you who happen to live in Texas, and some kind of benefit will be set up to assist with medical expenses. For more information on how you might be able to help, check out:

http://community.livejournal.com/allston_info/

Today...

Church, then lunch event at church, then Easter stuff at my sister's house.


We played a trivia board game with my parents and my sister and her husband. We were the red-headed critter.


velvetpage is real purdy.


Krista, and her husband Ryan, looking thoughtful.


My parents. My dad seems to have just gotten the right answer.


Some of the questions we aced. Like, there was a question about George Orwell, fercryin'outloud. Others were "challenges." In this one, I had to close my eyes and draw a picture of something, and velvetpage had to guess what it was.


Can you guess what it was?


Here, velvetpage acts out "Dodgeball."