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@RichardAbbott said: >I have no objection at all to people using online media to create content - Wattpad has done this for some time, for example - and again it democratises the process of sharing creative content from author(s) to readers, m…
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Anyone else have thoughts on this pick?
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I think TINAML is more than just junk food. At least, I think the project in its original conception is more than that. The actual print book can probably be classified as a ‘collectible’ - more valued as an object than for its contents. But I d…
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Games can be both. Roleplaying games ARE tools. They can also be literature, and they can be collectibles, purely consumed and never read or played. For my part, I’ve largely avoided avoided collecting games or game product. I do have some that I…
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This book definitely did feel like a ‘book’ that was made to cash in on the popularity of something. Here we take something was was freely available on the internet, mash up a portion of that into a format different from the original, slap a cheap p…
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I would say that most RPG play is modelled on storytelling, which means variations on the Rising Tension, Climax, and Release format. This is very similar to what you posted, but more universal. The GM provides challenges or obstacles to the PCs (of…
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I haven’t read it. I rarely have. Small concern over its length (~430pp), but we’ve read longer. If it’s a concern for others, please say so. As always, I’ve got tons of books I can choose from. But this one sounded really intriguing.
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Quick response for now: 1. Yes one can roleplaying memory loss. One of my players did an amazing job of this when his character was possessed by a forgetfulness spirit and lost short term memory. While I can show you the result (the session was doc…
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There is a cadre - quite a large one - of RPG fandom that never explored or evolved past D&D, so they speak nostalgically about things like 3.5, OSR (revisionist history of D&D) and Appendix N (a way of retro-legitimizing Gygax as some kind …
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My initial reaction is that I really liked the ‘impressionist’ nature of this book. It seemed to double back on itself a few times in terms of world building. But on the other hand, what seemed to start as solid world-building (mostly in the nomencl…
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Thinking of *The Works of Vermin* by Hiron Ennis for my next pick. Comment if you dare.
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5% in! And feel free to frame the discussion any way you like, as far as I’m concerned.
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Oh, of course. Probably very different!
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> @clash_bowley said: > I found the cultures, and their interaction believable. I am interested in the way the totally male-oriented viewpoint here might differ from a female-oriented viewpoint. It would be interesting to read a short stor…
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What did you think, @RichardAbbott ?
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I ran a campaign in my home setting where two of the characters were inspired by Fritz Leiber's The Snow Women. In the game culture, the Skalding men are basically bestial by nature, but civilized by the women's magic. Trouble is, they were far from…
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Most interesting, I think would be to roleplay the women's angle in a hobby mostly enjoyed by men, without turning it into a caricature. Because let's face it, almost anything in RPing is at risk of becoming a caricature in the hand of a roleplayer,…
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Yes, what @kcaryths said.
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The fact that the book riffs off previous SF novels shows that Ammonite is part of the dialogue of SF. I think there's a fine line between works that are derivative, or basically remakes of something, or works that try to do a new thing while being …
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I didn't find this aspect especially interesting or remarkable, to be honest.
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I suppose Griffith would prefer you to think that people can be all different types BECAUSE women ARE people - not in spite of the fact that the people happen to all be women. I certainly had no trouble believing that women could fill all roles (the…
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Neither Mars nor the moon seem like alien worlds people would be drawn to settle on - and yet people will be. So that's the why of a yes answer, I guess.
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I thought it was pretty good overall. It was trying to achieve something that I thought was a noble goal, and something I've always been interested in reading, which is to say a novel about women and women's issues. The audio version I listened to h…
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Great review. Thanks!
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I finished a week ago.
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(Quote) That's a really good question.
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Interesting discussions all round, everyone!
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I don't think slavery ever collapsed, though it's not spoken of much in early England. I'm pretty sure the Saxons and Celts both held slaves in the dark ages. The Norse also took slaves when they arrived. But I'm sure the growing power of the Church…
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This was not a society with a 'police force' or 'legal system', at least in so far as it pertained to daily life. The people with the power to enact justice - the carls, or knights, by virtue of their relationship with the king - were also the very …
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Notable, perhaps, is the absence of witches (evil ones, I mean). Did they come to popularity in fiction later?