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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?
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I think I answered most of this in Q2a. It was a 'might makes right' world, so naturally skill in battle would relate to the moral right. I wouldn't expect this to have much bearing on what it is to be a man now, except I think quite a few people s…
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I suppose that things like killing and adultery are made more OK if they are driven by some 'noble passion' like 'true love', or if they are done 'against' BAD men. But perhaps the stories were intended to stir some degree of debate/discussion among…
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I think they were intended for several things. Primarily as entertainments, and primarily as entertainments for rich people in their halls. Which means that secondarily, they are also role-model tales which attempt to establish some sort of ideals o…
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All done.
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And what about libraries?
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I’m willing to give the book a go. Looks like Amazon has a hardcover for about $39, and an audio for a credit ($about $15). Kindle is $17, which seems high . Toronto Public Library has 19 copies hardcover plus audio and eReader versions, so it’s ava…
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Horror implies a revulsion to me. It's something different from fear/scare. Of course, I can develop fear for the things that horrify me. But not all fear is attached to horror. I might be afraid of being scammed on the internet, or being mugged. Bu…
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One quite effective tension building game (I assume, as I've never played it myself, just read it) is Dread, which doesn't use dice for resolution, but a Jenga tower. So every time an action is taken that can add to the tension, a Jenga block is pul…
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@RichardAbbott Yes, quite possibly.
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There is a horror version of Unknown Armies called Nemesis that uses the madness meter. Jocelyn Robitaille ran a session of this at the Grand Roludothon that was supposed to be something like Fantasy Vietnam. I think the best horror mechanic I play…
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I guess I was hoping you all would recognize the symbols that I didn't!
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There were definitely characters, just not particularly deep ones. Only the man really had any depth because we were somewhat privy to his thoughts. Pepper was more an archetype, and so was the sister. Some say she represented a grounding force and …