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(Quote) The all male environment I was talking about was here. This book club. Because we are all male, by chance, we lack a female viewpoint to say what they might think.
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I will be featuring in in my next campaign. It won't be a Virus, but by design.
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The native characters in this story were from a non-technological society that had no access to technology for centuries. The Company people seemed to have trouble not thinking in terms of computers and communication. It was definitely Science Ficti…
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It's a novel, not a scientific paper, @BarnerCobblewood! I definitely caught the Dune parallels, with the Prana Bindu training being bio-feedback based, and the Virus changing ones body like the poison/drug that is Melange.
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I found it fascinating. And not magical, and not a polemic conceit.
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I found the cultures, and their interaction believable. I am interested in the way the totally male-oriented viewpoint here might differ from a female-oriented viewpoint.
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I agree - the world was very earth-like, with only specifics different. And the Virus.
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@RichardAbbott - here's one who totally agrees with you! I found it fascinating and enjoyed it so much, I immediately read Spear, which is her take on the Peredur/Parsifal legend, which I also found excellent. I also did not feel that the female-fem…
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I am almost done with it. Should be finished today or tomorrow.
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Knighthood was not considered nobility until the High Medieval - around the time of Chretien. As time went on, it got more and more elaborate, with different orders of Chivalry, and most nobles were knighted as a matter of course.
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(Quote) Lancelot was written specifically for - and at the request of - Marie of Champagne, so most definitely!
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(Quote) His patroness, Marie of Champagne, was a daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine...
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(Quote) I assure you there were! This was the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine, for example.
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In the modern mind, we think in terms of cause and effect, where the non-modern mind thinks in terms of ritual and result. The world is pervasively magical, and invoking that magic is no more wondrous than lighting a fire with sparks. Indeed, lighti…
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I didn't see any hint of a sexual dynamic between the elite and the populace. It was all between the elite and the elite. The elite never interacted with the populace at all, just with each other, and with their servitors, who did interact with the …
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Rational thought was not a thing. Ones reasons were not rational, and ones actions flowed from one's reasons. Again, pre-modern minds. We do not think that way, but they did.
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That all worked fine for me. No problems there!
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With God all things are possible. They are both realistic and MCU, because that distinction would be meaningless.
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I can't judge their actions because their reference points are so very different from mine. They might as well be aliens from Rigel. They do things for reasons they think right and proper.
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I found all the female characters far more interesting than the men.
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Pre-moderns thought differently than we do.
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Not only might makes right, but more importantly right makes might.
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I enjoyed them. There were a lot of strange complications, but these were written by a pre-modern person, with a pre-modern mind. That's why I never run games set before the Renaissance. Pre-modern minds just worked differently.
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You can start - I'm mostly done...
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In the middle of the second. They were longer than I expected, and I was real busy!
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@BarnerCobblewood can bump me in the sequence! I haven't started any prep yet!
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I believe @BarnerCobblewood means this as our read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Antimemtics_Division
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This looks fascinating! I'd love to give it a whirl!
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Finished House on the Borderland last weekend. Forgot to inform folks! Mea culpa!
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Not yet started. Will do so today!