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(Quote) Only songs from the Station to Station album!
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OK, Richard - I would like to do "The Man who Fell to Earth" by Walter Tevis. I have seen the movie but I think reading the book would be rewarding.
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(Quote) Not yet, @RichardAbbott!
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Sorry! I misread the 30% as 50%, so I am about the same as Apocryphal.
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(Quote) Well, these are elements I am aiming for which were inspired by this book! I HOPE to be able to codify these things in the game!
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(Quote) At this point we are just starting to work things out. It may be that the Wulin game will be based on StarCluster rather than BloodGames as it doesn't share the magic of BloodGames and instead would be better served by an extension of the St…
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(Quote) By "Born that way" I meant the Freaks didn't seem to need a Sifu themselves. They had what appeared to be inborn abilities they could practice and make better. This is perhaps why they did not teach the hero internal kung Fu, as th…
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I am more than half way. Hope to be done on time!
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(Quote) Yes - I am assuming this is the path he takes.
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I intend on releasing a Blood Games 4 wuxia toolbox. This has been in the cards since Blood Games 4 was written. This book will most definitely inform it. It has already informed the Blood Games 4 - Cradle of Wyrms setting book currently in playtest.
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That's the core of Wuxia. once past the basic techniques, things become more and more powerful and complex. The whole 'cultivation' thing is central to the wulin, and expresses itself through the techniques. I found it fascinating!
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(Quote) Exactly! There were plenty of women who became part of the wulin world. There were fewer of them than men, but their skills were equivalent to those of the men.
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I have found that the Wulin world is fractal, and can be viewed on all different scales, becoming more and more intricate as you delve into it. There are two ways to become great ion this world within a world. One is to be born that way (The Freaks…
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I didn't read any very long prologue, I read a fascinating back history. What makes Guo Jing interesting is that his strengths are his weaknesses and his weaknesses are his strengths. The other wulin artists strive to polish their vulnerabilities aw…
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it's all about the relationships, baby! Blood relations, romantic relations, teacher-student relations, close friendships, enmities, feuds... As Tip O'Neill once said "All Politics is Local"
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Huh! I loved the pace of the book - it starts off like a dragster at a green light and never takes its foot off the gas. A series of events linked by relationship and history unfolds at breakneck speed. Who your teacher is becomes vital knowledge fo…
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(Quote) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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(Quote) I'm ALREADY half way through that one! D'oh! :D
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(Quote) I wish I was more than half way into it! Sorry!
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Possibly! I know I read it. If so I'll definitely find something else!
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I'm OK for September. Not sure yet what I want to do - thinking of The Golem and the Jinni:
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Awesome! Thanks Barner!
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(Quote) Crap! I messed up and have been reading Ancestral Night! Crap! Gotta start in on Hero ASAP!
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(Quote) This is my feeling.
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(Quote) Nah. Setting specific stuff. Nothing transferable.
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(Quote) It takes a lot of effort to make a story as disjointed as this one.
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(Quote) My take. This book is Frankenstien all the way down.
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I'm using ideas from this book in one of my current games. So yeah.
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It's a story. A story about stories stitched together to resemble a novel, in the dark and if you squint hard.
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The characters seemed like real people to me. I accepted them at face value and never inquired further. That's all I care about.