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(Quote) No, it was all in my kindle edition...
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Hmmm... I like that interpretation of the variations, @RichardAbbott! My feeling about some things in the original story - like the clashing rocks or the Harpies - is that they were inserted by storytellers in the process of mythologizing the story.…
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That medieval tale is The Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot) c. 900. The voyage is also referred to in a Life of Brendan.
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There was a medieval tale written down with the magic turned up to 11, as is usual in these cases. Like an Arthurian story. We have stops at this isle and that island, but where we know exactly what path Jason would have had to have taken, it's much…
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Did anyone else think the only place Severin was over-reaching in his explanation is with the clashing rocks? Well... I'm probably alone there.
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It was very similarly structured, actually. The Brendan Voyage was less cut and dried than that of the Argo - sailing from island to island in the middle of the ocean is far different from sailing along a coast - but the same device of examining the…
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I think rather the reverse - Jason's story added to that of Severin and company. As I mentioned before, Severin did a fine job of pinning his journey with that of Jason, bringing up what the original argonauts were experiencing to buttress and enha…
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I liked it and would be very happy to tray anotehr. I loved the Freya Stark book!
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I quite enjoyed it, actually. Severin did a nice job comparing and contrasting the voyage of of Jason and the voyage of the modern Argonauts. I like road stories in gaming as well. Not necessarily episodic - mixing episodic with longer plot arcs wor…
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Always up for some cyberpunk!
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Thank you! I'll pick it up!
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What's next after Titan?
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(Quote) B)
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(Quote) I agree. It is a common problem translating book plots into game terms. Authors are not herding cats, and thus can ignore their cries of woe... :D P.S. I hate railroading as much as my players do, if not more...
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For me as a reader it was ugly and raw. Maybe he felt like that was enough? I don't know. I did.
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Nerds are capable of utterly amazing things...
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I don't think anyone WANTED to mention it. A very ugly incident...
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Whup! I was probably working on them when you posted this!
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Didn't bother me either. Gaia is a closed system with an air circulation mechanism. Varley went into a great deal of detail in discussing how Gaia works aside from whatever the hell those cables a remade from to withstand that stress... Check out th…
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Actually April apparently did not become pregnant. I always wondered why... possibly because she was no longer human, and therefore Gaia did not want a hybrid Titan/Angel?
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(Quote) Ha! Yes! Niven was great about stuff like that!
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(Quote) I wasn't trying to say this was common, but it obviously does exist in some cases.
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Here is an example from Magazine 4, an article called A Look At Scan. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XpxNO_9Hn9GAx6AwjNXXt5yJD7okYsot/view?usp=sharing You can see that we go into great detail when we design components of the setting because we a…
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(Quote) No - I always work out the details of my game settings so I understand how everything works, then abstract it in-game. GMs and players don't need this information to play the game, so we don't put it in. We publish a lot of this stuff in our…
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Joining small pieces into larger wholes is known as scarfing IIRC. The British used this technique to make masts for their sailing ships when they lost access to American forests. My dad used this scarfing technique - basically fitting pieces togeth…
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(Quote) Huh! Who would have thought of that? :D
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(Quote) That was Volant, the post magical apocalypse game with actual floating islands where people rode giant birds and bats. I was talking about Sweet Chariot, which is very much a SF game, as the planet is in a system with other settled, high tec…
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I once wrote a game where the setting featured steam powered airships and 'sort of' islands. It was set on a planet where the atmosphere contained a lot of argon and the settlers who landed there in improvised gliders could only live on the mountai…