Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
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This is the report of the warhammer session I participated in 2 weeks ago, which I haven’t had a chance to report on yet. The group consisted of the GM and 3 players, one of whom didn’t introduce himself[1]. Our characters were: Dwarven Runebearer (played by Ichinose, who was part of my last Pathfinder experience)…
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Office of Forward Planning Lanhydrock Bodmin Commanders, Forward Scouts and Captains Albany Region The Americas 3rd September 1755 Strategic Action Notice 1-864-7A Re: Plans for enactment of First Ritual of Death All soldiers are to be in place for the ritual on the evening before our associates commence their attack…
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Now that this monkey is finally off my back I can write about it. I just finished the third book of this hideously long trilogy (Assassin’s Apprentice, Royal Assassin and Assassin’s Quest) by Robin Hobb, which I have seen about for many years and never got around to reading – partly because I’ve largely given…
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So we were all doing fine in the 2009 juncture, but we hadn’t found my Shrine’s God so we went to 2056 where the Architects Of the Flesh had taken It, and when we got there we met these flying apes and they helped us to find the secret research lab where my god was…
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Further to that last little critical warp-spasm, I just took the “what fantasy writer are you” quiz, and I’m Orson Scott Card – someone I’m pretty politically opposed to, I suspect. And my exact opposite is China Mieville. How timely! And how completely wrong…
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So, here are some examples of how we play our Feng Shui craziness… Psycho Gun nut gets to work: Sure, we were meant to be reconnoitring and using our (very sub-standard) seduction skills to get into the building site, but our armed-to-the-teeth Chow Yun Fat hard-boiled wannabe gun nut decided to go in the “easy”…
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Yukiko Akizuki is my Feng Shui character. She is a 20 year old ex-shrine maiden from a Shinto Shrine in Izu, South of Tokyo, whose shrine was ransacked by ugly big-nosed foreigners. These foreigners killed the other residents of the shrine and stole the god that lives behind the shrine, and Yukiko – who survived…
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Sadly it has a voiceover which makes it annoying to open, but this website has an interesting article discussing the first computer programmers of the modern age – all of whom were women. I have read before about the “calculators”, women who worked in Universities doing the practical work of solving equations by hand for…
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A whole bunch of RPG bloggers have recently pointed to this post which compares the obsession with game mechanics in RPGs with the obsession on certain mechanical details in pornography (hereafter referred to as pr0n to escape the spammers). I think they are getting way too hung up on the pr0n=D&D thing. The argument is…
Compromise and Conceit 