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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 …
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I was seduced by the concept and bitterly disappointed by the execution. It was full of magical thinking, not just magical effects. The writing was competent enough that I continued to read the book thinking she would pull it together, but that neve…
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Your quote sounds like something the author said to herself while writing.
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(Quote) Entirely agree with Barner here.
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There was no ending, just a place where the author stopped writing.
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I was not entertained by Brooks' parade of stereotypes standing in for Important Ideas.
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I think the aurthor watched too much Snowpiercer.
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(Quote) I have designed several. In fact the only games I have designed which 'revolve around' violence - as opposed to being a true last option - Are my military/paramilitary RPGs. This is probably one of the many reasons I have few customers.
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(Quote) A fun occupation to do while not reading?
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Nothing in this book makes any real world sense. It's all a strictly a literary conceit. The train makes sense because the author says it does.
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Not the way I think...
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(Quote) As am I! This looks fascinating!
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I'm leaning to Riddle of the Sands. I love sailing books, and I don't think we've ever read espionage books in the club. Also it's available on Kindle, which Plutoshine is not.
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I should be done by the weekend!
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Sounds interesting!
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I'm always up to talk about RPGs!
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An interesting classification of alignment might be philosophical - Nietzschean, say, or Machiavellian, or Hegelean. Using a Venn diagram rather than rigid boxes...
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Well, that's some of the reason why I moved away from levels in the first place. But many people love Levels and Leveling! It's just not such an attraction for me. Mind I am way out on the pointy edge of nobody where RPGs are concerned, so no one mu…
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Good stuff Chris!
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That is a cool way of thinking about a campaign, Tom! A campaign is your experience, and what you experience changes you, for better and worse.
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I thought of your first point and I believe it is covered. In StarCluster 4, all checks are skill based. Skills use the associated attribute as Target Number. As characters age, the characters gain skills, but as they age past the age of 30-33, they…
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I'm currently reading your latest, Richard... :D
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Food Food I got! It's like the Jack Reacher series last year was set in New England, and everybody got coffee at 'Dink's'. That's a coded reference to Dunkin Donuts, or 'Dunk's', for all you heathens... The others I didn't, but I could see the wealt…
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I liked it as well - reminds me of Vance's footnotes or the little quotes from various sources in Dune. A nice technique!
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Like kcaryths, I thought it was the 'control' one the whole time, and for much the same reasons. I am infamous for my ability to guess the perp a quarter of the way through most procedurals or mysteries, though.
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I wouldn't hazard a guess as to his religious orientation. I'm usually wrong about that! I very much enjoyed the discussion though!
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Cloud Computing is just a fancy name for 'On Someone Else's Computer'... There was an internet when he wrote the book, but it slightly predates the Worldwide Web. I was an IT director at the time for a bleeding edge physics based startup, and we all…
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Well it was definitely Toronto! I like Toronto a lot! There is a satisfying energy in Toronto which appeals to me, and I found myself often thinking "I could live here", which I may end up doing if I require asylum, as looks increasingly l…
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I too greatly enjoyed the book. The technology was acceptably described, and the people vividly drawn. The explorations of the moral and ethical questions involved were very interesting, Some of which I have explored myself in my SF games, and there…