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(Quote) I’m way behind in reading this book and in participating in this discussion. I’m just now reading this. I am currently in a play=by-post game called The Wait, in which we are playing people in a hospital room, sharing stories about the dyin…
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(Quote) I love looking for deeper meaning in texts! Even if an author does not intend deeper meanings (which some critics consider to be a fallacy anyway), there are always connections to be explored that are not on the surface. Considering that muc…
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(Quote) I don’t like to do that because I’m not always ready when a discussion goes up I like to keep my notification saved in my email for when I finish reading and am ready to join the discussion.
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(Quote) I’m not at all sorry I read this book.
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I have my notifications turned on, but I have to manually select it when new discussions get set up. Am I going about it wrong? The notification system here is not intuitive to me.
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Yeah, I didn’t know the questions were up until it was announced here.
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(Quote) I like that assessment of Brunel a lot.
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I liked much of the same things that @dr_mitch mentions. I was particularly drawn to Nemo’s past, and I might seek out something else to read from the perspective of colonized Indians. Everybody agrees that Nemomwas the protagonist, right? ;)
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In a pre-internet play-by-post game on an “electronic BBS,” I played in a Robin Hood game, and the traditional characters were in the game. I recall using.a GURPS source book, but I can’t swear we used GURPS as the system. It was too long ago. I re…
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The falling action was too long. Like others, I’m not sure what the section on Paris was about. The details about the ship’s later uses were unneeded. Are we to feel like the ship was a character in its own right? I never felt that way about it. I …
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I got used to the writing. I didn’t like it, but I was able to ignore its most egregious pretentious aspects. I did not mind the exposition. It was often about something I was interested in thinking about. I don’t know enough about whaling to know …
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I’ve read 20,000 Leagues but not Moby Dick, which I started reading at the same time I started The Great Eastern. I finished our selection but am less than a third of the way through Moby Dick. It’s not that I’m disliking it, but it’s not zippy by …
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I’m good with either. I like the thought of exploring ideas memory, but beware; I’ve read more than a bit of hermeneutical phenomenology about memory, and I might get excited and start inflicting that on you. I also like the thought of exploring id…
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I’m within harpoon distance. I be finished tonight.
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I’m still slowly reading Always Coming Home, so I won’t be joining on on this selection, either.
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(Quote) There’s still a bit of philosophy of history that incorporates teleology. Marxism and its child critical theory is built on the Hegelian dialectic that moves history toward Absolute Spirit. Marx, of course, ditched Absolute Spirit for Materi…
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BBS’es were the best! Until they weren’t.
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I’m in for this book. I have it, and I’m five or six chapters in. I’m off work the next two weeks, so I should be able to start discussion at the appropriate time. I’ve read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea but not Moby Dick.
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(Quote) You mentioned this game in another thread, too. Not being familiar with it, I checked it out. So imagine my surprise when I discover a that you are its creator and author.
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Thank you.
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I just finished a short story. I have no idea if it’s any good at all. Although I’ve done plenty of professional and academic writing, I really only started writing lyrics and poems a couple of years ago, and this is my first self-contained prose fi…
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I’m thinking of requiring a character to revise their belief in the context of railroading or sandboxong our characters. Maybe something in between requiring and allowing.
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So governments and corporations will be using all the scraped data about you in order to “win” whatever game they are playing with/against you. Happy near future!
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In Tales from the Loop, each character starts between 10 and 15 years old. has the same number of Luck points and Attribute points combined. A younger character has more Luck points than Attribute points. On the character’s birthday, one Luck point …
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(Quote) The Mysteries of Mesoamerica https://arkhambazaar.com/games/the-mysteries-of-mesoamerica-cofc-sourcebook/
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(Quote) I have not, to my detriment, I’m sure. It’s right up my alley, too, and I think I’ll have to rectify this lack.
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(Quote) This is a great insight. I think I prefer the middle way of collaboration between GM and players, like the Powered by the Apocalypse games and those inspired by them. The PC’s aren’t railroaded, but they aren’t left to aimlessly wander the s…
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Uh, nope. This thread is https://www.ttrpbc.com/discussion/445/89-june-2020-gods-of-jade-and-shadow-by-silvia-moreno-garcia . When I click on the link I shared, they show up for me.
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I have posted discussion questions at https://www.ttrpbc.com/categories/89-%28june-2020%29-gods-of-jade-and-shadow-by-silvia-moreno-garcia .
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Thanks, everyone, for your patience. My medical problems have not been severe, but They have been extensive and exhausting. The last few weeks have involved my General Practitioner, an Ear Nose Throat specialist, a Gastroenteroligist, and a Urologis…