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clash_bowley
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I have read it a while ago.
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(Quote) I agree entirely!
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(Quote) I watched it since I was a child in the sixties. The Avengers was formative for me. Not only was Emma Peel my first crush, the show just changed the way my brain worked. I found it brilliant and fascinating.
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(Quote) Sounds like my wife's reaction to the Lord of the Rings book. "They tromped around, and then tromped around some more, did something then started tromping again. There was a whole lot of tromping involved."
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Great Song! I owned it at one time - on the album of a different name... something about a ghost - and had entirely forgotten it! Thank you for reminding me! Looks like our presidente for life got the numbering wrong himself!
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is Greenland the 52nd state, or is Gaza the 52nd state and Greenland the 53rd? I'm forgetting my order of annexation!
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Here is an aerial photo of part of the East Frisian Islands, showing low tide conditions. I believe the leftmost island shown is Norderney: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwQZIy2aMAkdzBA?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
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Yeah - she's definitely from around here...
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(Quote) Exactly! This is a 'Table Level" part of role playing gaming.
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(Quote) Not codified, but certainly any good GM can extend the mechanics of the game into unforseen circumstances. My games are designed to do this, because that flexibility was a major design criteria, but I am confidant I could do so with any set …
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I think I could run it in any of my own games if I took the time to prep it properly - using tide tables to fill and empty a set of contour maps showing the same area at different times as well as a weather and wind direction table based on prevail…
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I thought the trip in the fog to Memmert was breathtaking in it's danger! It was a tour de force of sailing.
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I'm with Apocryphal here. The undertones were so fascinating! I thought the author did an amazing job with the feel of those conversations...
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His style reminded me very much of Hammond Innes - though I suppose the actual relationship would have to be the reverse...
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Well, It's not so unthinkable as it used to be - certain thugist Nazi-like authoritarian regimes might find the prospect of a 51st - or 58th - state the logical next step.
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I enjoyed all the characters. I found them all very different from each other, but all were real seeming. Yes, it was a product of it's time. Definitely! Yet I would point out back then cultures were far more insular back then. Nations were not expo…
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I freaking love books about sailing, the more technical the better! This one was very satisfying! So I'm a total outlier and my opinion shouldn't count.
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I enjoyed it, greatly! I was expecting it would be right up my alley and it was. All that fascinating information about the Baltic and North Seas, the fact that my mother's father's family were from Friesland, the sailing and nautical descriptions, …
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I am well into it. Should be no problem!
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(Quote) :D
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I am thinking Arkangelsk by Elizabeth Bonesteel (Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NML4V97/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title). I have not read anything by this author, but it looked interesting, and her name is badass...
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(Quote) Agreed with Barner! If the author had any clue about this, they would have not butchered the ending as they did!
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(Quote) Yeah, it would, wouldn't it?
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(Quote) Brilliant! I would design that board game with a permanently changeable board, and you inherit the changes each voyage. The train would take damage along the way, and the engineer would attempt patch repairs en route. The surveyor could 'fin…
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I don't understand why people didn't ship people by rail through India and SE Asia. Or why goods didn't travel by ship, in spite of the fact that ships are by far the cheapest transport method. None of the book's background made any sense if you di…
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(Quote) Bingo! (Quote) Bingo!
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Hmmm - I haven't bothered updating my website in a few years. There are more out there now... I just throw them up on Drive Thru and let them wither.
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(Quote) That would be both useless and pretentious. I apologize for mentioning that they exist. I was probably tired and not thinking correctly.
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(Quote) Too true!
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I couldn't see how I would use the train. I'm not an 'on the rails' sort of GM. The descriptions of parts of the wasteland were evocative enough to help describe parts of some Fae or other wild magic land. I liked the name Weiwei. After that? I got …